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UPS Inc. last week set ambitious financial targets based on annual profit growth of about 10% companywide, while also announcing a new residential package delivery service with a two-hour delivery window option.

Class 8 U.S. retail truck sales soared in August by 70.8% — the highest increase since 2004 — and crossed the 15,000-vehicle mark for the first time since 2007.

Congress last week approved a short-term measure to extend federal surface transportation spending and the federal fuel tax system that helps fund it until March 31.

The average price of U.S. retail diesel dipped 0.6 cent a gallon to $3.862 last week following two weeks of increases, the Department of Energy reported.

We agree with President Obama that federal funding of infrastructure projects is a great way to help spark the national economy and get Americans working.

Consumer confidence rose this month from its lowest level in almost three years, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. Senate approved a short-term extenstion of transportation funding that averts a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration and will provide continued funding for federal highway programs.

In the United States, we have a tendency to take quite a bit for granted. We often gripe about mundane things like our kids’ sports schedules or running through the “Honey-do” list at home.