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New home sales fell 3.6% in September, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter, marking the first increase in a year, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

I agree — the economy is bad. Now let’s go out there and make some profit. As excess capacity continues to plague the less-than-truckload segment of the trucking industry with reduced revenues and profits, transportation executives are increasingly frustrated.

Durable goods orders rose in September for the fourth time in six months, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Covenant Transportation Group reported a third-quarter net loss of $13.6 million, or 96 cents a share, compared with a loss of $3.4 million, or 24 cents, a year ago.

Safety investigators nabbed 77 commercial driver and 84 companies for failing to comply with federal drug and alcohol regulations, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.

Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday the Department of Transportation was creating a safety council to address a “critical” safety issues facing DOT’s 10 modal agencies.

A Senate panel Tuesday approved the nomination of Anne Ferro, President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Congress must find more ways to allow motor carriers considered a “low security” risk to pass more quickly through the 160 U.S. border checkpoints with Mexico and Canada, a trucking official said last week.