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TransCore has announced the opening of its CarrierWatch Insurance Monitoring Center, designed to help freight brokers, third-party logistics companies and shippers add new carriers and monitor the ones they already use.

New home sales fell for the third straight month in July, declining 0.7% to 298,000, the lowest level in five months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

USA Truck announced that it expects a net loss for the third quarter of 2011, but said it is too early in the quarter to predict the range of the expected loss.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is moving ahead with his plan to lease the Ohio Turnpike to a private operator, telling a newspaper that he plans to hire a consultant to determine the road’s value.

Air quality at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to significantly improve during 2010, each port registering a roughly 40% decline in diesel particulate matter emissions when compared to 2009, according to new port emissions inventory studies.

Houston oilfield service and tank truck operator Select Energy Services has purchased Carlsbad, N.M., counterpart Riverside Transportation.

Facing a major restructuring and the closings of thousands of post offices, the U.S. Postal Service is ending its foray into less-than-truckload hauling on Sept. 19.

Celadon Group said last week it would pay its first cash dividend to shareholders, a payment of 2 cents a share.

Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist said he will not try to get federal fuel taxes eliminated during the expected congressional debate in September over whether to extend the nation’s transportation spending plan, Bloomberg reported.