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Automobile hauler Jack Cooper Transport was named the winning bidder to buy its bankrupt rival, Allied System Holdings, following an auction in Delaware Bankruptcy Court last week, Mike Riggs, chairman of Cooper, told Transport Topics on Sept. 12.

Larry Davis, executive director of the Ohio Trucking Association, said he will retire in January after 13 years at the helm.

Freight carriers, commercial fleet operators and third-party logistics companies are all putting out “Help Wanted” signs.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it will provide additional time for freight brokers to supply proof they’ve increased their minimum surety bonds to $75,000 from $10,000.

Lawyers for Daimler Trucks North America and Volvo Group told a federal court last week that the Environmental Protection Agency should vacate the compliance certificates on most Navistar Inc. MaxxForce engines made in 2012 because the rule EPA used for its approval was invalidated.

Orders for new heavy-duty trucks climbed 20% last month from a year earlier, boosting expectations that orders will keep rising in the fall and surpass normal seasonal trends, ACT Research reported.

Flawed data used by hazardous-materials regulators to justify a 2011 regulation call into question the basis for the rule that would require the installation of technologies to purge liquid from tank truck wetlines, according to a new government report.

A record-tying low number of drivers were placed out of service for rules violations during the recent national safety inspection blitz known as Roadcheck, according to figures released last week by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.

The U.S. retail diesel price average was unchanged at $3.981 a gallon last week, holding steady at a five-month high, while regular gasoline dipped 2.1 cents to $3.587, the Department of Energy reported.

A recent report on using tolls for highway funding understates public opposition to tolling, American Trucking Association said Sept. 13.