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

The United States and Mexico are close to signing a formal cross-border trucking agreement and could do so as early as this month, according to a Mexican government minister, Bloomberg reported.

Proposed changes to the federal hours-of-service rule are unwarranted and would harm small businesses nationwide, a trucking executive told a Congressional panel Tuesday.

Business inventories rose 0.8% in April, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

The Cass Freight Index, which measures freight bills paid for shipments moved primarily by truck, rose 9.6% in May from the same month a year ago, but the latest report showed a slow-down in the growth pace tied to the economy.

The Maryland Transportation Authority on June 2 proposed significantly increasing tolls over the next two years on seven highways, bridges and tunnels in the state.

Retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months, as automobile sales slumped, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

The producer price index rose 0.2% in May, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

Yokohama Tire announced it will implement a price increase of an average of 8% on all of its light and medium commercial truck tires sold in the United States on July 1.