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J.B. Hunt's Profits Surge in 1Q • XRG Completes Purchase of Two Truckload Carriers • Trade Gap Narrows in February • Eaton's Profit Rises 86% • And more...

March sales at retailers rose 1.8%, the largest increase in a year, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

The average retail price of diesel fuel rose 3.1 cents to $1.679 per gallon, and gasoline set another record after a 0.6-cent increase, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The Federal Highway Administration has at least $284 million — and perhaps nearly $400 million — in unused funds for transportation projects that should be reallocated to projects where they will be used, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said last week.

Business Inventories Rise 0.7% in February • Vitran Raises Guidance After CN Strike Ends • Goodyear Reduces Profits by $65 Million • C.H. Robinson Alters Method of Accounting • And more...

The House of Representatives passed a $275 billion transportation funding package that severely cut back attempts to impose tolls on interstate highways and also granted some exemptions to truck drivers’ hours-of-service rules.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it was weighing requests from two states for waivers from federal clean-air rules for gasoline as a way to increase fuel supplies and ease record-high prices.

New Report Urges CEOs to Strengthen Cybersecurity • Ford Says U.S. Should Offer Hybrid Tax Breaks • Tango, General Services Creating Wireless Data System • Tele Atlas, ProMiles Form Partnership

Support Grows in Congress for Raising Gasoline Tax • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices Rise to Another Record • Bush Signs Pension Relief Bill • USF Dugan Workers in Cincinnati Vote to Join Teamsters

The Department of Energy said Thursday that U.S. consumers will pay a record $1.76 a gallon on average for regular retail gasoline during the peak driving season this summer, 20 cents more than last year..