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Rulemaking delays in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program could undercut the program’s effectiveness significantly, according to a new report by congressional investigators.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector declined in September but still showed expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Consumer confidence rose this month from its lowest level in almost three years, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. economy rose at a 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, boosting an earlier estimate.

Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 18.1% in July from a year ago, the Department of Transportation reported.

President Obama, speaking before a bridge on the Ohio-Kentucky border that carries heavy truck traffic, made a pitch for infrastructure spending and his jobs plan.

Some truckload carriers say they are concerned about potential industrywide implications of a class-action lawsuit challenging the way Swift Transportation, one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, calculates the mileage basis for paying truck drivers.

The Federal Reserve Wednesday maintained a pledge it made last month to hold the benchmark interest rate near zero through the middle of 2013 as long as unemployment stays high and the inflation outlook is “subdued,” Bloomberg reported.

Georgia is ending its program of having some local police departments conduct truck inspections, a move the state trucking industry applauds.