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Construction spending rose 0.4% in April, the second straight monthly increase, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The U.S. Postal Service, like many commercial fleets, is facing the problems of an aging truck fleet, including burgeoning maintenance costs, but lacks the financial resources to do anything about it, a new government study found.

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico jumped 15.6% in March from a year ago, topping $80 billion for the first time on record, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

A bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill being prepared by four key United States senators would map out a national network of freight corridors and dedicate a percentage of Highway Trust Fund dollars to road projects within that network, a Senate staff member said.

Freightliner Trucks has introduced an automated manual transmission for its Class 6 and 7 Business Class M2 vehicles.

NFI said Tuesday it has acquired the West Coast operations of Gilbert Co., a subsidiary of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group.

German carmaker Volkswagen AG Tuesday formally launched a bid for German truck maker MAN SE by boosting its stake in that company, a move that could create Europe’s largest truck maker, Reuters reported.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago area fell in May, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said Tuesday.  

Consumer confidence fell in May to a six-month low, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Oil rose past $102 a barrel in early trading Tuesday, its highest level in three weeks, as a leak shut a pipeline carrying crude to a U.S. storage hub, Bloomberg reported.