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Employers added only 32,000 workers to payrolls in July, the Labor Department said Friday, as it also revised lower the job gains for the two previous months.

Truck drivers using the Maine Turnpike will begin paying much more next year to travel on one of the state’s major thoroughfares.

Diesel engine maker Caterpillar Inc. said Thursday evening it gave the United Auto Workers its "last, best and final" contract offer and the union held off a scheduled strike.

EGL Reports Higher 2Q Profits • Old Dominion Offers Guidance on 3Q • Rail Intermodal Traffic Remains Strong • NHTSA Seeks Comment on Report

The price of crude oil futures in New York surged to a record for a fifth straight day session on concern spare production capacity isn't available to substitute for a possible disruption of shipments from OAO Yukos Oil Co., Russia's biggest exporter, news services reported.

With the peak shipping season for intermodal containers set to begin this month, railroads are making seasonal rate hikes, but the increases may stay in place after the peak, shipping executives said last week.

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Allied Holdings Posts Loss in 2Q • Jobless Claims Fall by 11,000 in Latest Week • Goodyear Earns $25 Million on Record Revenues • OPEC Says It's Ready With Spare Oil Capacity • And more...

More than two weeks after a federal appeals court decision overturned the Department of Transportation’s revised hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers, neither the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the DOT nor the Justice Department had taken any specific action on what the government might do next, lawyers and spokesmen for the agencies said.

Orders at U.S. factories rose 0.7% in June, the second straight monthly increase, the Commerce Department said Wednesday..