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A new economic index based on diesel fuel purchasing in the trucking industry fell in January after an increase in December, the index’s authors said.

John Ruan, founder of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, died Saturday, the company said. He was 96.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region grew this month at the fastest pace in four months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

NEW YORK – After a trial run that began last spring, a section of Broadway in New York City will remain permanently closed to traffic.

State legislators in Wyoming have put into writing the tolling proposal for Interstate 80 that they have been talking about for some two years.

A group including motor carriers, businesses, several members of Congress and a conservative public interest legal foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s formal finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to public health.

In the trucking dispatch room of the future, the only sound is of cooling fans whirring inside computer casings.  Gone are the cubicles that once honeycombed the floor, as are the chattering dispatchers who once staffed them.

U.S. consumer confidence dropped in February from a two-year high, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Retail sales climbed 0.5% in January, the third increase in four months, the Commerce Department said Friday.