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The U.S. economy’s service sector showed expansion in September for the first time in more than a year, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Crude oil fell to near $69 a barrel early Monday as production increased and on concerns about high unemployment crimping economic growth, Bloomberg reported.

Transportation software firm ALK Technologies said that the latest version of its PC-Miler software, PC-Miler 23, has been certified by its partner TMW Systems.

It’s September and all over the country, America’s children are back in school. You don’t need to be a child, of course, to benefit from education and training, something particularly true in the trucking industry, where it’s vitally important for everyone involved to be at the top of his or her game.

Factory orders fell 0.8%% in August, the first decline after four months of increases, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in September, the highest rate since 1983, while the trucking industry lost 3,600 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday.

Intermodal rail traffic in the United States fell 16.5% last week from the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said in its weekly report.

Just say “no” to the T. Boone Pickens plan and to H.R. 1835, the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act — the NAT GAS Act of 2009 — a bipartisan bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.).

Twice in recent days, the New York Times has uncharacteristically turned its attention to the trucking industry, and twice it has tried to give trucking a black eye, strongly implying that the industry is unsafe and has little interest in getting safer.