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The diesel-price spike continued last week, as the U.S. retail average rose another 4.4 cents to $3.976 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

Oil prices continued to spike Friday, jumping $2.49 to finish the trading week over $112 a barrel on continued concerns over Libya’s civil conflict, Bloomberg reported.

American Trucking Associations is endorsing a federal proposal that trucking companies use electronic logging devices to monitor drivers’ compliance with hours-of-service rules

Wholesale inventories rose in February while sales fell for the first time in eight months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

President Barack Obama’s call last week for U.S. companies to add more alternative-fuel vehicles to their fleets did not provide more money for new trucks, but he is seeking funds to aid fleets’ purchases, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Third-party logistics provider Radiant Logistics, Bellevue, Wash., said it agreed to acquire DBA Distribution Services, a Somerset, N.J. air-freight forwarder, for $12 million in cash and debt.

The Ontario Trucking Association said it was pleased that the Ontario Ministry of Transportation will begin reviewing whether to permit motor carriers to use longer tractors.

UPS Inc. said its aircraft mechanics represented by the Teamsters union have ratified a new labor contract that runs through Nov. 1, 2013.

Initial jobless claims fell by 10,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.