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The government of Ontario has resurrected a plan to make speed limiters mandating maximum mandatory truck speeds at about 65 miles per hour in the province, according to the Ontario trucking Association, which backs the plan.

American Trucking Associations and the Partnership for Uniform Marketing Practices recently requested that California prohibit the use of automatic temperature compensation equipment in retail fuel sales.

Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia region showed contraction for a fourth consecutive month in March, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

Widespread flooding primarily in the Midwest threatened to worsen Friday, with many rivers rising past their banks for more than a day, the Associated Press reported.

State officials closed a bridge over the Mississippi River northwest of the Twin Cities area in Minnesota because of problems found in the same kind of steel plates that may have played a key role in last summer’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the Associated Press reported Friday.

Michelin & Cie., the world’s second-biggest tire maker, said it will link the prices of car tires to the cost of oil, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Retail diesel and gasoline prices again set U.S. records last week as the diesel average flirted with $4 a gallon, according to the Department of Energy.

An index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in February, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday.