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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Friday issued a rule that will require carriers with serious patterns of hours-of-service violations to user electronic on-board recorders in all vehicles.

Full implementation of the CSA 2010 program, originally expected to start in July, is likely to be delayed until 2011, according to American Trucking Associations, citing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

A federal fuel standard for heavy trucks should take into account freight efficiency rather than simply setting a miles-per-gallon standard, as the government does for passenger cars and light trucks, the National Academy of Sciences said last week.

The U.S. retail diesel average slipped 0.7 cent last week to $2.939, ending a string of five consecutive increases, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.

Construction spending fell in February to its lowest level in more than seven years, the Commerce Department reported.

U.S. manufacturing activity expanded for the eighth consecutive month in March, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.

Initial jobless claims fell by 6,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Automakers saw their biggest U.S. gains in years for the month of March, led by Toyota Motor Corp. with a 41% increase, Ford Motor Co. with a 40% improvement and General Motors Co. with a 21% upturn, Bloomberg reported Thursday.