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Industrial production dipped 0.1% in May in the second decline in three months, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

Michigan and Canada have agreed to build a second bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in June at the slowest rate in seven months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday.

Retail diesel prices dropped for the ninth week in a row, and analysts said they could fall even more as the national average declined 6.5 cents to $3.781 a gallon last week, the Energy Department reported.

SAN DIEGO — Compliance, Safety, Accountability is “here to stay,” but it’s likely that changes are ahead for the program as industry pressure continues to mount, a former administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said.

TAMPA, Fla. — Insurance underwriters for trucking are concerned about the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability program but are not sure about how to deal with it, an insurance agent told trucking executives meeting here.

FedEx Freight levied a 6.9% rate increase, prompting other less-than-truckload carriers to signal similar moves as they try to capitalize on a strong rate environment.

Allied Systems Holdings Inc., the largest U.S. car hauler, last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second time it has done so, saying it’s continuing to provide service and blaming weakness in the car and light-truck business for the move.

Senate Democrats, contractors and other transportation advocates ramped up their rhetoric and the pressure last week in a last-ditch attempt to get a long-term highway bill passed before a temporary transportation funding extension expires.

In its second request in a week for closely held federal research, American Trucking Associations is asking federal regulators to publicly release a five-year-old study that contains data explaining how regulators weight violations that it used to compute Compliance, Safety, Accountability program safety scores for drivers and carriers.