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Crude oil rose to topped $137 a barrel on Monday before falling back, despite a pledge by Saudi Arabia over the weekend to boost production by 200,000 barrels a day, Bloomberg reported.

Mobile communications and software provider Xata Corp. said it has added proof-of-delivery functionality to its flagship XATANET fleet operations software.

Dynamic traffic reporting — and eventually predictive analysis that forecasts when and where those soul-draining backups and bottlenecks will pop up — could be just what the doctor ordered.

Gasoline prices rose 10 cents in the past weeks ended Friday to a national average of $4.10 a gallon, the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations reported.

Driver turnover at truckload carriers with annual revenue of more than $30 million declined to 103% in the first quarter, the lowest annualized rate in five years, American Trucking Associations reported.

The Teamsters union last week agreed to a new labor contract with 10 auto transporters, six days after Performance Transportation Services Inc., the sector’s second-largest fleet, closed its doors.

Ontario approved legislation last week that will require every heavy-duty truck operating in the province to employ a device to govern its maximum speed at 105 kilometers per hour, or about 65.2 miles per hour.

The national average diesel price remained unchanged at $4.692 a gallon last week, following small declines for the previous two weeks, the Department of Energy reported, matching the longest stretch without an increase so far this year.

West Coast port operators are optimistic they can get a labor deal in place by the end of this month and avoid any strike or shutdown at the facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported.