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The national average retail price of diesel fell 5.1 cents last week to $2.847 a gallon — its largest weekly drop since January — while the gasoline average fell 6.7 cents to $2.771 a gallon.

More than 375 professional truck drivers from all 50 states are expected to compete this week in what American Trucking Associations calls the “Super Bowl of Safety” — the National Truck Driving Championships in Minneapolis.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded a grant to educate local and state enforcement officers about truck cabotage rules that forbid foreign carriers from hauling cargo point-to-point within the United States.

U.S. retail Class 8 truck sales continued to slide in July, falling more than 54% from the same month last year, according to the latest survey by Ward’s Communications.

The California Air Resources Board has approved more use of ethanol as part of several changes to its reformulated gasoline regulations.

Mapping software firm ALK Technologies said it has released the 21st annual upgrade of its fleet-management software package, FleetSuite.

U.S. consumer confidence fell to a one-year low this month, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Manufacturing growth in the Philadelphia area stalled in August, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.