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The South Carolina Department of Transportation has submitted an "expression of interest" to the Federal Highway Administration seeking permission to toll Interstate 95 from North Carolina to Georgia, American Trucking Associations said.

The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday to screen most incoming cargo for radiation at U.S. ports, the Associated Press reported.

U.S. payrolls rose by 138,000 in April and the unemployment rate held at 4.7%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Patriot Transportation Holding reported net income of $1.7 million or 56 cents a share for its fiscal second quarter ended March 31, up from $1.6 million or 52 cents a year earlier.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson has launched a task force to review so-called “boutique fuels” used across the county, the agency said late Thursday.

Robert Low, president of refrigerated carrier Prime Inc., said he had a good reason for shipping a recent package from Arkansas to Kentucky by air, rather than over the road.

A group of cigarette distributors sued New York state Wednesday seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail-order tobacco sales, the Associated Press reported.

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 5,000 to 322,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers told of a softening LTL rate environment in their first-quarter reports, saying they had succeeded in getting fuel surcharges to stick, but were not able to boost freight rates significantly beyond that.

Logistics firm Jacobson Cos. has acquired Wilpak Inc., a package design and logistics company, the financial firm that helped facilitate the deal said. Terms were not released.