Business

The Port of Los Angeles said its June import cargo volume dropped 10% from a year ago, to about 334,000 20-foot equivalent units.

Truck and engine builder Navistar Inc. said that it has begun selling aftermarket parts on Amazon.com.

Truck manufacturers sold 14,647 Class 8 vehicles in June, a 64.6% increase over last June and the highest monthly total since March 2007, and they said they expected sales to continue to rise this year despite the weak economic recovery.

U.S. regulators and U.S. truckers who do business in Mexico said they are skeptical that Mexican carriers will participate in the cross-border trucking program in large numbers when the pilot project gets into full swing in the next 60 days.

Oil slipped below $97 a barrel in early trading Monday, continuing to hold in the mid-$90s per-barrel range it’s been in for the past month, Bloomberg reported.

Rising demand for freight hauling is generating more business for trucking companies, but rising costs and a dwindling supply of drivers are making it difficult for the nation’s top for-hire carriers to provide additional capacity to meet that demand.

Container shipping line APL, which is part of Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., said it will build a new intermodal terminal in Joliet, Ill.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said overall out-of-service rates during Roadcheck 2011 were the lowest on record.

This issue of Transport Topics includes our extremely popular Top 100 ranking of the largest for-hire motor carriers in the United States and Canada.

In your article about bill number S. 1281 on July 4, the focus should have been on safe transport, not on banning one specialized form of transportation.