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CN Railway Reaches Accord with Steelworkers Union • UP Resumes Limited Service in Southern California • Business Inventories Rise in November • Ohio Turnpike Workers Threaten Strike • And more...

The Commerce Department said Thursday that sales at retailers in December rose 1.2%, the most in three months. For the year, sales totaled a record $4.06 trillion, up 8% from a year earlier.

Despite efforts by many public truckload carriers to avoid expanding in 2005, overall trucking capacity was poised to grow modestly this year, fleet suppliers, analysts and trucking executives said.

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Allied Holdings' Stock Resumes Trading • Consolidated Freightways Settles Discrimination Lawsuit • Trailer Maker to Expand Output in 2005 • Shipping Cos. Consider Alternative Ports to Avoid Delays

Freight railroad Union Pacific Corp. said Wednesday the California storms had shut down almost all train service in the Los Angeles area, Bloomberg reported..

UPS Inc. on Tuesday lowered its fourth-quarter earnings prediction due to a slowing of domestic package volume between Christmas and New Year’s Day and higher-than-anticipated operating costs.

Hours after UPS Inc. lowered its fourth-quarter earnings, rival FedEx Corp. late Tuesday reaffirmed its previous guidance of 90 cents to $1.00 per share for its fiscal third quarter ending Feb. 28.

The Transportation Security Administration took two incremental steps toward meeting its Jan. 31 deadline to implement fingerprint-based background checks for hazardous materials drivers. It named a contractor to handle the checks and announced that several states would use that contractor.

A Department of Transportation agency has proposed a rule that would require tank truck drivers hauling gasoline and other flammable liquids to purge the pipes used in loading and unloading before returning to the road.