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Once a year — and it should be far more often — we pause in our busy lives to take notice of and show our appreciation for the everyday heroes who move our freight: the 3.4 million professional truck drivers who deliver the goods.

PeopleNet, in a bid to push further into the trailer-tracking market, is touting integration with Par Logistics Management Systems as the new “core” of the Minnetonka, Minn., company’s trailer-management product.

Logistics firm US 1 Industries said it has received a proposal from its two top executives to buy all of the shares they don’t already own in a transaction that is worth about $8 million.

Many students who take master-level courses in logistics and supply chain management are required to undertake a special project, called a capstone project, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

Please keep step-van drivers in the National Truck Driving Championships. I attended my first truck-driving rodeo two years ago because the step-van category was added, and I had a blast. Now, I’m hooked on NTDC.

Sales of existing home rose in August from record low in July, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.

An index of leading economic indicators improved in August, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday.

Initial jobless claims rose by 12,000 last week to 465,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.