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Forward Air Corp. said it has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Black Hawk Freight Services, a privately held provider of transportation services headquartered in Milan, Ill.

U.S. consumer confidence fell this month, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

DHL Worldwide Express, part of Germany’s Deutsche Post AG, said it will build a $175 million cargo hub in Shanghai to help the parcel courier accommodate growing trade in Northern Asia, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

Canadian transportation firm TransForce Income Fund said it will acquire Thibodeau Group of Companies, a less-than-truckload and truckload carrier based in Quebec.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance said it is asking all the major North American heavy truck manufacturers to make anti-rollover technology standard equipment in their new vehicle packages.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Thursday it lost $4.5 million, or 57 cents a share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $498,000, or 7 cents, a year ago.

Ramey Peru, chief financial officer of truckload carrier Swift Transportation, will resign from his position effective Dec. 31, the carrier said.

The index of leading economic indicators fell in October, the New York-based Conference Board said Wednesday.

Performance Transportation Services, a Wayne, Mich., auto transporter, said it, along with certain subsidiaries, will file for chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a $67 million deal to sell nearly all of its assets to Allied Systems Holdings.