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Sales of used Class 8 trucks fell 20.4% in May from the same month last year, while prices jumped 5% from April, because of low inventories, numerous sources said.

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Rob Abbott, American Trucking Associations’ vice president of safety policy, has been named to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s motor carrier safety advisory committee, FMCSA said Friday.

American Trucking Associations said it has hired Caroline Decker as its new vice president of legislative affairs.

Fed by the international economic recovery and a weak U.S. dollar, North American truck makers are enjoying a sharp upturn in sales of heavy-duty trucks to the rest of the world, particularly Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

TravelCenters of America, the nation’s only major truck stop chain that is publicly traded, announced a secondary offering of 10 million shares to be priced at $5.69 each.

TravelCenters of America, the second-largest U.S. truck-stop chain, said it launched a version of its TruckSmart mobile software for Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

Heavy-duty U.S. truck sales leaped 41.1% in April, compared with the same month in 2010, marking the 16th straight month of expansion, and outpacing the in-dustry’s 35.9% growth for the first four months of this year.

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TravelCenters of America said its first-quarter loss narrowed from a year ago.