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The U.S. economy rose at a 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, boosting an earlier estimate.

President Obama, speaking before a bridge on the Ohio-Kentucky border that carries heavy truck traffic, made a pitch for infrastructure spending and his jobs plan.

Some truckload carriers say they are concerned about potential industrywide implications of a class-action lawsuit challenging the way Swift Transportation, one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, calculates the mileage basis for paying truck drivers.

The Federal Reserve Wednesday maintained a pledge it made last month to hold the benchmark interest rate near zero through the middle of 2013 as long as unemployment stays high and the inflation outlook is “subdued,” Bloomberg reported.

Georgia is ending its program of having some local police departments conduct truck inspections, a move the state trucking industry applauds.

The Ontario Trucking Association is offering a reward and asking for the public’s help in finding people who threw rocks at trucks on a highway Friday in Woodstock, Ontario, after a trucker was injured.

Vigillo LLC said it has released a new product called Carrier Select, which allows freight brokers, shippers and insurance providers to analyze carrier performance.

Consumer confidence rose this month from its lowest level in almost three years, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The Environmental Protection Agency has asked a federal court to dismiss a Navistar Inc. lawsuit seeking to require that the agency test selective catalytic reduction engines with the emissions systems disabled or used improperly.