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Consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in November as falling gasoline prices provided relief for consumers, the Bloomberg said Tuesday.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has started up its California LNG Plant in Boron, Calif., the company said Monday.

Pacer International announced last week that its subsidiaries will deploy 230 new clean trucks this month to comply with Southern California port regulations.

Existing homes sales fell 3.1% in October, while the median price of a home fell 11.3% from the same month last year, the biggest jump on record, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Crane Worldwide Logistics said it has completed four acquisitions expanding its freight management and contract logistics services in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Navistar International Corp. will use federal emission credits to enable its new Class 8 engine to meet 2010 federal emission standards, although the engine could be set up to comply with the regulation without the credits, a Navistar executive said.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Shippers, carriers and analysts meeting here agreed that the nation’s contracting economy is hurting freight transportation badly, but said they were hopeful the government would agree to critical transportation infrastructure improvements, financed by higher taxes.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published its latest version of changes to the 60-year-old regulation governing commercial driver work rules.

The average price of U.S. retail diesel fuel continued to slide last week, falling 13.5 cents a gallon to a 17-month low of $2.809, the Department of Energy reported.