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Consumer confidence rose to a six-month high this month, according to the final monthly Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Thursday.

The U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.6% annual rate in the third quarter, higher than previous estimates, the Commerce Department said Wednesday in its final revision.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would extend a program of grants and loans to reduce diesel emissions.

The year began with hopes the Obama administration and Congress could end their stalemate over the highway bill. But like 2009, this year is expected to end without a new long-term reauthorization agreement.

The speed limit for cars and trucks on the Ohio Turnpike will go from 65 to 70 miles an hour starting April 1, a change that the state’s trucking industry opposes.

Automakers and engine manufacturers are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its plan to allow fuel stations to sell gasoline with 15% ethanol, the Associated Press reported.

Trucking companies finally gained some traction in 2010 as the economy stabilized and demand for freight hauling increased.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration opened its CSA safety-monitoring system to public view for the first time last week, after a federal court rejected a lawsuit seeking to keep the system closed.

The National Industrial Transportation League expressed “profound disappointment” over an investigation by the Federal Maritime Commission into numerous U.S. importer and exporter complaints of “perceived malpractices” by ocean carriers that caused supply-chain service disruptions and rate and surcharge increases from in 2009 and 2010.

Ryder System said it will acquire The Scully Companies, a California-based provider of contract carriage and related services.