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Improved national infrastructure, rising fuel prices and new diesel-fuel regulations top trucking’s agenda this year, an American Trucking Associations’ official told an investors’ conference in New York this week.

Canadian firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Friday it earned C$43.1 million or 86 cents per unit in the first quarter, up from C$26 million or 57 cents a year earlier.

Segmentz Inc. on Friday reported first-quarter net income of $557,000 or 2 cents a share, compared with a loss of $4.65 million or 17 cents last year.

The price of goods imported to the United States jumped 2.1% in April, reflecting higher petroleum costs, the Labor Department said Thursday.

American Trucking Associations late Thursday revised its March for-hire truck tonnage index to a 2.9% decline, compared with an earlier 3.2% reported drop.

Intermodal growth rose 6.3% in the first quarter, marking the 16th straight quarter of growth, the Intermodal Association of North America said late Thursday.

Canadian transportation firm Trimac Income Fund Friday reported it earned C$3.7 million or 7.2 cents per unit in the first quarter, compared with C$1.7 million or 3 cents a year earlier.

Business inventories rose 0.7% in March from a month earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Sales also rose by 0.7%.

Financial firm Goldman, Sachs & Co. is proposing to expand Interstate 285 to add truck-only toll lanes on the western side of Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday.

Retail sales rose 0.5% in April, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.