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April New 91ÊÓƵ Sales Fall 11.8% to 1.093 Million Rate • Moyes Cancels Stock Purchase After Record Gain • OPEC Output Seen Rising With Prices • Navistar Announces New Debt Offering • And more ...

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 93.2 this month, from a revised 93 in April..

The average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States declined 0.2 cent to $1.761 per gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

U.S. retail sales of Class 8 trucks in April climbed 33.3% from a year earlier to 16,416 units. At the same time, buyers reportedly placed orders for new trucks at the fastest pace in more than six years and the second-highest total on record.

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Transportation firm USF Corp. said Sunday it would close USF Red Star, one of its regional less-than-truckload carrier units.

The average retail price for regular gasoline rose 14 cents in the past two weeks to a record $2.07 a gallon as of Friday, according to the Lundberg survey of 8,000 stations nationwide.

Less-than-truckload carrier FedEx Freight said Monday it would implement a 5.9% general rate increase effective June 14.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The world’s two largest commercial vehicle makers, DaimlerChrysler and AB Volvo, have decided to make truck safety a key component of their marketing efforts.

ALBANY, N.Y. — More than 200 industry executives and government officials last week took what they said could be a first step toward designing a nationwide standard for rules to limit engine idling by trucks, buses and railroad locomotives.