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Air cargo shipments jumped 5.4% in April compared with the same month last year, the Air Transport Association said late Monday.

The national average retail price of diesel fuel moved up 0.8 cent to $2.89 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Low-emission medium-truck diesel engines due in January will not be much different from today’s models. Most will have the same components, the same power ratings and the same maintenance schedules as they do now, medium-duty engine manufacturers told Transport Topics.

Con-way Inc. said Monday it has discontinued its domestic air freight forwarding operations under its Con-way Forwarding subsidiary.

Vanguard National Trailer Corp. said Monday it will help fund American Trucking Associations’ long-term national truck driver recruitment advertising and training campaign.

The U.S. economy’s service sector growth declined in May, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Parts maker ArvinMeritor Inc. said it locked union workers out of an Ontario, Canada, truck brake factory after both sides failed to reach a labor agreement, Bloomberg reported.

A California jury awarded $61 million to two FedEx Corp. drivers of Lebanese descent who claimed a manager harassed them with racial slurs for two years, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

Truckload carrier Werner Enterprises said late Friday that its board of directors boosted the company’s quarterly cash dividend 13% to 4.5 cents per share.

UPS Inc. workers represented by the Teamsters union are seeking early contract talks with the package-delivery company to settle health-care and pension issues, the union said Monday.