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Consumer confidence rose for the first time in five months, the New York-based Confidence Board said Tuesday.

Consumer spending was unchanged in June and incomes increased 0.5%, the largest gain in three months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Voters in and around Atlanta will vote Tuesday on a proposition to increase sales tax by a penny to raise $18 billion for transportation projects, the Associated Press reported.

Rand McNally Inc. said it has upgraded the hardware for its TPC 7600 mobile communication fleet-management system.

American Trucking Associations has filed suit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s latest attempt to modify the hours-of-service rule because it believes it had no other way to prevent a serious mistake on the part of the very agency that is charged with improving safety by and for the motor carrier industry.

Four months after delaying a planned rollout of a system that would assign safety scores for truck crashes based on a carrier’s responsibility, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it will spend the next year studying how it could implement such a program and whether it would be worth the $3 million it could cost annually.

Consumer confidence dropped in July to the lowest level this year, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. economy grew at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter as consumers trimmed spending, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will research how it could assign blame for truck crashes based on a carrier’s fault, and publish the results of its study in summer 2013, the agency said Monday.

For carriers, the effort to find the best nonidling cooling option for the truck cab has not been without starts and stops.