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Transportation and third-party logistics firm C.H. Robinson Worldwide’s first-quarter profit dipped slightly to $85.4 million, or 50 cents a share, from $86.3 million, or 50 cents, a year ago.

Hino Motors Ltd., Japan’s largest heavy-duty truck maker, had a wider-than-expected annual loss because of falling sales and one-time costs from a change in its pension system, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Freight brokers and logistics providers, who met earlier this month in San Antonio, provided more evidence of the bleak condition of the freight transportation business and also moved to gather data on the size of their segment of the industry.

A federal appeals court Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Teamsters union and other groups who had challenged a cross-border trucking program with Mexico, saying the suit was moot because the Obama administration and Congress ended the program.

The California Air Resources Board said it is now enforcing the identification and reporting requirements for California-based transport refrigeration units on trucks, trailers, shipping containers and rail cars assigned to terminals in the state.

Motor carriers will be well positioned over the next decade to gain business from faster-growing economic sectors such as durable goods, exports and chemical shipments, American Trucking Associations’ chief economist said last week.

Most of the 300 Sterling Trucks dealers in the United States and Canada accepted settlement offers from Daimler Trucks North America after DTNA announced it would shut the brand down, the Sterling board member of the American Truck Dealers said April 9.

Common wisdom has long maintained that truck dealers make more money from parts and service than from new vehicle sales. But the economic reality today is challenging even that old maxim.

A federal judge ruled that Norfolk Southern Corp. can continue operating an ethanol-transfer station in Alexandria, Va., overruling a local ordinance, Bloomberg reported.