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Officials at the Port of Los Angeles are crediting their clean trucks program for significantly lowering diesel emissions in 2009.

Officials at the Port of Los Angeles are crediting their clean trucks program, which resulted in significant turn-over of older trucks to newer and cleaner trucks, for significantly lowering port-wide diesel emissions in 2009.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said airfreight tonnage has risen 40% in the first three months of 2010 compared to last year, the Associated Press reported.

U.S. consumer confidence increased this month, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Consumer confidence grew this month to its highest level since March 2008, the New York-based Conference Board reported.

Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, said last week that the United States and his nation would solve the countries’ ongoing trade dispute caused by the closure of the southern border to longhaul truck traffic.

The Obama administration was set last week to outline a path to national fuel-economy standards for large trucks, bringing industry and government officials to the White House to announce a plan that could aim at driving habits as well as equipment changes to reduce fuel use.

U.S. consumer confidence grew this month, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

After facing off in federal court in Los Angeles last month, attorneys for American Trucking Associations and the Port of Los Angeles are expected to file their final post-trial briefs this week in the contentious court dispute over parts of the port’s clean trucks program.

U.S. consumer confidence fell this month, but was higher than previously estimated, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.