The marketing of trucks took a major turn last week as two of the four large truck-making corporations committed to three cycles of the new North American Commercial Vehicle Show, starting with the September 2017 inaugural event in Atlanta.

Momentum for the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta grew on May 25 when Navistar International Corp. announced it has committed to the new show for three years — 2017, 2019 and 2021 — and that it definitely will not exhibit on the corporate level at the Mid-America Trucking Show in 2017.

The Environmental Protection Agency wants U.S. fuel distributors to move 2.1 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2018 as part of the continuing increase in the nation’s renewable fuel standard, the agency said.

Daimler Trucks North America on May 23 announced its intention to exhibit at the first-ever North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta in September 2017.

WASHINGTON — Manufacturers of vehicle safety systems, including those for heavy-duty trucks, displayed their latest wares here for the benefit of federal policymakers and the national press.

DUBLIN, Va. — Volvo Trucks North America is laboring diligently to persuade federal and state regulators to ramp up standards on greenhouse-gas emissions in an orderly fashion so as not to scare off fleets from buying more fuel-efficient trucks that will be produced to comply with the Phase 2 rule expected later this year.

DUBLIN, Va. — Volvo Trucks North America is laboring diligently to persuade federal and state regulators to ramp up standards on greenhouse-gas emissions in an orderly fashion so as not to scare off fleets from buying more fuel-efficient trucks that will be produced to comply with the Phase 2 rule expected later this year.

The U.S. average diesel price rose for the 10th time in 11 weeks, this time by 6.8 cents a gallon to $2.266 — the highest price since just before Christmas, the Department of Energy reported May 2.

WASHINGTON — The United States is enjoying a remarkable abundance of energy choices, much of it due to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. However, there is a growing legal and regulatory challenge to reduce the production and use of fossil fuels by limiting their extraction and transport, a lobbyist said here in a briefing for an American Trucking Associations committee.

Independent engine maker Cummins Inc. posted diminished first-quarter financial results with declines in sales and net income relative to the same time in 2015, and the North American heavy-duty truck market listed as a contributing factor.