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Reversing Bush administration policies, including its denial of California’s request for a waiver allowing the state to regulate automobile greenhouse-gas emissions, could be high on President-elect Barack Obama’s agenda in January, some observers said.

Adding biodiesel to Canada’s existing fuel storage, blending and distribution infrastructure could spur a host of problems for the country's distillate market, the Canadian Trucking Association said.

Trash-hauler Waste Management Inc. is field-testing the first prototype parallel hydraulic hybrid truck to be deployed in waste collection runs, the company said Friday.

Kenworth Truck Co. will scale back most of its truck production at its Renton, Wash., plant and lay off more than 400 workers as sales slump, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Saturday.

U.S. industrial production rose 1.3% in October, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

Manufacturing growth in New York state contracted this month at the fastest pace on record, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.

Deutsche Post, owner of DHL Express, said it would close the parcel carrier’s U.S. operations after an unsuccessful five-year, $10 billion attempt to crack into a $61.1 billion market dominated by UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp.

Logistics executive Paul Lueck, a 27-year veteran of the transportation business, thought he’d seen it all before the silver-tongued con man from what turned out to be a fictitious Jonesboro, Ark., trucking company came calling last summer.

Logistics companies face significant new challenges as both shippers and carriers look for ways to cope with financial turmoil, volatile fuel costs and slumping demand for goods and services.