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Arizona transportation and public safety officials said they hope whatever caused severe dust storms that closed a stretch of Interstate 40 at least 10 times in the past two months has run its course.

A coalition of truck stops, restaurant franchises and other businesses have expressed opposition to Arizona’s proposal to stem budgetary shortfalls by commercializing the state’s interstate rest areas.

Air pollution at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., declined in 2009 for the third consecutive year, and diesel particulate matter has fallen more than 50% since 2005, in part because of the port’s clean truck program, port officials said

Manufacturing activity in the New York region improved this month, showing positive activity for the 11th straight month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

The price of goods imported to the United States fell 0.6% in May as oil prices declined, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

Large trucks will pay about $1.50 a mile to travel peak hours on the first segment of Maryland’s Intercounty Connector, scheduled to open by early next year.

YRC Worldwide said Monday that it would achieve positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the second quarter and that its volumes were improving in June.

Truck stop chain Flying J Inc. said it has started accepting Comdata payment cards at its 270 U.S. and Canadian travel centers.

Gasoline’s national average price fell 11 cents in the past three weeks to $2.72 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday.