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The rate of highway fatalities from accidents involving large trucks fell 14.1% to the lowest level on record, according to an American Trucking Associations analysis of Department of Transportation data.

Wholesale inventories rose in February while sales fell for the first time in eight months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Oil prices continued to spike Friday, jumping $2.49 to finish the trading week over $112 a barrel on continued concerns over Libya’s civil conflict, Bloomberg reported.

President Barack Obama’s call last week for U.S. companies to add more alternative-fuel vehicles to their fleets did not provide more money for new trucks, but he is seeking funds to aid fleets’ purchases, Bloomberg reported Friday.

A plan to allow Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways would begin as a pilot program that would not exceed three years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Friday.

Hub Group Inc. on April 4 said it purchased Exel Transportation Services, another third-party freight provider, for $83 million to expand its business offerings.

A patent-holding company has filed suit against more than 200 motor carriers, alleging those fleets infringed upon a patent it holds by using certain tracking and communications systems in their trucks, according to court documents.

The total number of people killed in traffic accidents in the United States in 2010 declined 3% from a year earlier, despite the fact that Americans drove about 20.5 billion more miles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported.