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A group including motor carriers, businesses, several members of Congress and a conservative public interest legal foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s formal finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to public health.

In the trucking dispatch room of the future, the only sound is of cooling fans whirring inside computer casings.  Gone are the cubicles that once honeycombed the floor, as are the chattering dispatchers who once staffed them.

U.S. consumer confidence dropped in February from a two-year high, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Retail sales climbed 0.5% in January, the third increase in four months, the Commerce Department said Friday.

UPS Inc. said it plans to furlough at least 300 of its pilots if talks with the union fail to produce steps that will lower costs.

The mid-Atlantic region is the latest area to be reminded of Mother Nature’s capriciousness and unrelenting fury, as a seemingly endless string of major snowstorms has dumped record amounts from Virginia to New Jersey.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a proposed rule that would toughen its workplace drug-testing program for truck drivers and other transportation workers, including testing for the drugs “ecstasy” and heroin.