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Intermodal growth rose 5.5% in the fourth quarter, marking the 15th straight quarter of growth, the Intermodal Association of North America said late Monday.

Retail sales in January jumped by 2.3%, the biggest gain since May 2004, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

Rush Enterprises, the nation’s largest dealer of Peterbilt trucks, reported fourth-quarter net income of $12.6 million or 50 cents a share, up from $5 million or 26 cents in the previous fourth quarter.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington Tuesday reported it earned $80.5 million or 72 cents a share in the fourth quarter, compared with $43.6 million or 39 cents in the previous fourth quarter.

The Washington state House passed a measure that would require that 2% of the state’s diesel sales to be biodiesel by Dec. 1, 2008, the Associated Press reported.

Business inventories rose for a fifth straight month in December, and business sales rose by the most in a year, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Tire maker Michelin’s second-half 2005 profit rose 74% to about $600 million from $340 million a year earlier, Bloomberg reported.

Dupre’ Transport said it has promoted Tom Voelkel to be its president and chief operating officer.

The trucking industry has already spent $8.8 million in idle-reduction technologies, and over the next five years will spend at least $56 million more to further deploy such systems, according to a new report by the American Transportation Research Institute.

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