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Wholesale inventories rose 0.4% in January, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in January to its highest level since October 2008, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The U.S. unemployment rate held at 8.3% in February, and trucking added more than 10,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday.

Oil rose for a third day, finishing the trading day over $107 a barrel for the first time in 10 days, Bloomberg reported.

Celadon Trucking Services Inc.’s practice requiring pre-employment physical exams for drivers is the subject of a new lawsuit, in which the federal government said the exams violate a federal law prohibiting discrimination related to certain disabilities.

Wholesale used Class 8 truck dealers have seen more of a drop-off in their business than retailers and auctioneers because of the difficulty of getting product, but the used truck market could get some relief from trade-ins resulting from burgeoning new truck sales, according to ACT Research Co. and some dealers.

Although today’s handheld devices continue to become smaller, tougher and far more capable than their clunky, limited-application predecessors, manufacturers and officials at the freight companies that rely on them said the next technological developments will be influenced by what’s happening in the consumer market.

Truck producer Navistar International Corp. reported a loss of $153 million for its fiscal first quarter, attributing $112 million of the loss to costs of repairing faulty engines, including initial models of its 2010 technology engines.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Truckload Carriers Association has decided to endorse a 65-mph national speed limit in the latest sign of consensus-building within the industry.

Daimler Trucks North America said it was recalling all 110,000 of its 2006-2013 Freightliner, Western Star and Sterling trucks equipped with Detroit Diesel 13-, 15- and 16-liter engines to fix a defect the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said could cause accidents, fuel leaks and fires.