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PITTSBURGH — Like many other champion truck drivers, Dale Duncan first took the wheel in childhood, on a family farm in Indiana, where his father supplemented the family income by driving a truck.

American Trucking Associations’ tonnage index fell 10.4% in July from a year ago, the slowest rate of decline since February, offering another sign that the sick U.S. economy may be starting to heal.

YRC Worldwide said its board has elected Richard Williamson to be the company’s first chief strategy officer to “coordinate and oversee” the less-than-truckload carrier’s recovery process.

World trade rose 2.5% in June from May, suggesting that global trade sluggishness could be bottoming out, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Volvo AB’s North American truck deliveries fell 46% in July from a year ago, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Initial jobless claims fell by 10,000 last week from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 1% in the second quarter, matching an earlier estimate, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Trucking and intermodal firm Trailer Bridge Inc. said Thursday it has appointed Ivy Barton Suter its new chief executive officer, effective immediately.

New home sales rose 9.6% in July, on the heels of a big jump in June, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.