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Trade organizations representing motor carriers, shippers, and retailers continued their campaign against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed hours-of-service rule change, making last-minute appeals last week that the agency withdraw the rule and claiming it would hurt supply chain productivity and highway safety.

Thousands of motor carriers have received erroneous warnings from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently about the possible loss of their operating authority due to the cancellation of cargo insurance policies that the agency no longer requires in most cases.

Rand McNally introduced a series of upgrades to its TruckPC device Monday including navigation improvements, two-way communication and truck monitoring, it said.

U.S. retail diesel prices shot up another 15.5 cents last week in the largest one-week increase in nearly three years, as the national average price reached $3.871 a gallon, the highest since October 2008, the Department of Energy said.

Deutsche Post, the Germany-based parent company of DHL USA, said its fourth-quarter financial results due to the economic recovery, the Associated Press reported.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended to May 23 the comment period on its proposed onboard electronic recorder mandate.

Business inventories rose 0.9% in January, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Consumer confidence fell this month from a three-year high in February, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.