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Manufacturing activity in the Chicago area declined in October, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said Monday.

Oil slipped in early trading Monday after its biggest monthly gain in two years, falling to near $92 a barrel, Bloomberg reported.

P.A.M. Transportation Services reported a third-quarter loss of $1.7 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with a loss of $500,000, or 5 cents, a year ago.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Enhancements to trailer productivity were spotlighted recently as suppliers offered several approaches to fleets for improving productivity by either lowering fuel costs or increasing payloads.

Trucking and logistics software provider Prophesy Transportation Solutions announced the release of its Advanced Fuel Card Manager module for DispatchSeries.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it will not meet Friday’s court settlement deadline to issue its final hours-of-service rule.

Ryder System said that UBCR LLC has selected it as a partner in a Michigan natural gas project that will put 16 more heavy-duty natural gas trucks on the road.

Cheetah Software Systems Inc. said it has made available its next generation Cheetah Mobile app for the Android platform.

Truck tonnage climbed 5.9% in September, according to American Trucking Associations’ well-watched index, a result that should allay fears of another recession.

There is no question that the trucking industry in the past decade has made substantial progress in its embrace and use of technology to achieve best practices for every vital function and process from fleet management, dispatch and accounting to sophisticated tracking, business intelligence and almost any task you can name.