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February’s 0.3% rise in retail sales, as reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department, was the largest jump in four months but still short of the 1% analysts had been expecting, Bloomberg News reported.

Senate Rejects Fuel Economy Standards • Greenspan Says Business Investment Key to Recovery • Navistar's Credit Rating Downgraded • UPS, Teamsters to Resume Negotiations • And more...

TRW Rejects Northrop Offer Again • CEOs Plan Communications Network • UMass Uses Biodiesel to Meet Environmental Requirements • Iris-Recognition Test to Begin at Some Airports • And more...

The month of March has brought plenty of signs that the U.S. economy may be well along on its recovery from the 2001 recession. But it also brought plenty of indications that recovery is no bed of roses for trucking.

Some freeways may soon give way to tollways as cash-strapped states turn to entrepreneurs and private investment capital to build highways, bridges and tunnels to ease congestion and expand highway capacity.

Federal-Mogul Completes $23 Million Sale of Light Unit • Celadon to Purchase Some Assets of Foothill Corp. • International Oil Group Sees Higher Prices • Oregon Needs Millions for Bridge Repairs • And more...

For the fourth time in the past five weeks, the average price of diesel fuel increased, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.

Wholesale inventories fell for the eighth consecutive month in January, slipping 0.2%, a government report released Monday said.

The United States, and the trucking industry, have seen profound changes in the six months since four hijacked jetliners slammed into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and an open field in Pennsylvania.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Caterpillar Inc. plans to submit a full line of modified heavy-duty truck engines for Environmental Protection Agency certification in April and sale in October, although they just partially comply with an EPA mandate.