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We’ve now had four reasonably sharp weekly declines in the national average price of diesel fuel. While retail prices have dropped more than 41 cents a gallon over that span, the average is still astronomically high — $1.506 more than the average one year ago.

Remote sensors will be installed on bridges on two main South Carolina highways, allowing officials in Columbia to monitor the bridges’ condition, the Associated Press reported.

The number of Americans killed in truck-related crashes fell 4.4% to 4,808 last year, the lowest total in 15 years, the Department of Transportation said last week.

Kenneth Grimmett has been driving heavy trucks down interstates for 14 years, but he’ll be a “rookie” later this week when he climbs inside the cab of a flatbed rig parked in the middle of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

The national diesel average declined 14.9 cents last week to $4.353 a gallon, the fourth straight drop that has lowered the price of trucking’s main fuel by 41.1 cents a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

U.S. consumer confidence improved this month, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

Manufacturing growth in New York state improved this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday.

U.S. road fatalities and truck-related fatalities both declined last year, the Department of Transportation said Thursday.

Consumer prices rose 0.8% in July, bringing the rise for the last 12 months to 5.6%, the Labor Department said Thursday.