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Crude oil prices fell for the first time in four days Wednesday, a day after setting a closing-price record of more than $119 a barrel, Bloomberg reported.

Arkansas Best Corp.’s first-quarter profit jumped 78% to $8.5 million, or 34 cents a share, from $4.8 million, or 19 cents, a year earlier.

The $338 million Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge in Mississippi reopened to traffic earlier this month, the Associated Press reported.

The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill that would require law enforcement to provide a 5% overweight “tolerance” for most trucks on non-interstate roads.

I am interested in the feedback on fuel prices displayed in “Letters to the Editor.” Unfortunately, most of the letters did not focus on two salient facts affecting the price of oil. The first is the dismal exchange rate of the U.S. dollar versus the euro, and the second is world demand for petroleum products.

The federal government’s Transportation Workers Identification Credential enrollment began Wednesday at three U.S. ports: Chattanooga, Tenn.; LaPorte, Texas; and Portsmouth, N.H.

Vitran Corp. said late Wednesday its first-quarter profit fell to $1.1 million, or 8 cents a share, from $3.4 million, or 25 cents, a year earlier.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation’s first-quarter profit fell to $11.4 million, or 13 cents a share, from $16.6 million, or 19 cents, a year ago.