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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week proposed requiring nearly all interstate commercial motor carriers to install electronic data recorders to monitor their drivers’ hours-of-service compliance.

Construction spending dropped 2.5% in December to the lowest level in a decade, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

Transportation and third-party logistics firm C.H. Robinson Worldwide reported a fourth-quarter profit of $103.2 million, or 62 cents a share, up 17.6% from $87.7 million, or 52 cents, a year earlier.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed a regulation Monday that would require interstate truck and bus companies to install electronic onboard recorders in vehicles to monitor drivers’ hours of service.

Thirty-one state trucking associations have asked the federal government to study safety issues posed by snow and ice accumulation on trucks.

President Obama said during his State of the Union address that the federal government should “redouble” its efforts to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure, a message met with praise from industry and labor groups.

More than two dozen retail and shipper organizations, including the National Industrial Transportation League and the National Retail Federation, have urged congressional leaders to advance legislation that repeals the antitrust immunity that ocean liner carriers have enjoyed since 1916.

Consumer confidence slipped in January from a six-month high in December, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

A few stories in this edition of Transport Topics illustrate quite well the current state of the national economy.