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A Senate panel Wednesday approved Ray LaHood to be Secretary of Transportation, passing his nomination by President Obama to the full Senate, the New York Times reported.

The average price of U.S. retail diesel fuel rose last week for the first time in more than three months, inching up 2.3 cents a gallon to $2.314, the Department of Energy reported.

The information systems that support intermodal trucking companies are much like the business of intermodalism itself: complex, multi-headed and increasingly important to motor carriers.

U.S. heavy-duty truck sales hit their lowest level in 16 years during 2008, falling for the second straight year, even though they made a modest recovery after hitting bottom in May.

A top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said last week that the agency has “absolutely no intention” of granting the request by truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. for a two-year delay in implementing 2010 federal diesel emission standards for new heavy trucks.

The Bloomington, Minn., School District closed all of its schools Thursday because biodiesel fuel gelled and clogged in the district's buses, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune reported.

U.S. industrial production plunged 2% in December, the Federal Reserve said Friday, while automobile output fell to the lowest level in 25 years.

U.S. consumer confidence improved this month, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary monthly consumer sentiment index released Tuesday.

Consumer prices fell 0.7% in December led by declining energy costs and slowing the declines of previous months, the Labor Department said Friday.