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Retail sales increased 1.4% in October, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Natural gas is not a viable alternative fuel for most longhaul trucking operations, but it could be an acceptable alternative fuel for some shorthaul carriers, American Trucking Associations told the Senate Energy Committee.

A proposal to prohibit the transportation of flammable liquids in unprotected product piping would not improve safety and would be dangerous to technicians an American Trucking Associations official told a House subcommittee Monday.

U.S. consumer confidence declined this month, according to the preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Your weekly articles about rail-car loadings and truck traffic tend to make the same year-over-year comparisons.

Welcome aboard Anne Ferro as the fourth-ever administrator of trucking’s chief U.S. regulator, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Politicians’ fixations on issues such as health care are deflecting attention from crucial restoration of the transportation infrastructure and impairing the ability of American businesses to cope with the recession and revive the freight industry, three industry leaders said during a recent roundtable discussion.

The trucking industry shed 7,500 more jobs in October, more than double the 3,600 lost in September, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week formally approved selective catalytic reduction to meet its 2010 emissions standard.