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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ecember retail sales rose 0.7%, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ail freight traffic and intermodal shipments fell in the first week of 2006 from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. usiness inventories rose for a fourth straight month in November, rising 0.5%, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ew Mexico has granted an extension until Feb. 28 before it begins to enforce the state's Weight Distance Tax Permit display requirement.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil approached a three-month high Thursday, approaching $65 a barrel, in part on concerns about Iranian oil output, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ational job bank Careerbuilder.com has ranked heavy-duty truck driving No. 18 on its list of the top 25 jobs for 2006.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ransportation and third-party logistics firm Pacer International said Thursday it has named John Hickerson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacer Transport, the company’s truck services unit.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment claims rose 17,000 last week to 309,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. usinesses’ reliance on just-in-time inventories could make the United States’ supply chain vulnerable if there were a pandemic outbreak of avian flu, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Private equity firm Littlejohn & Co. said it purchased Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest distributor of fuel products to retail outlets, and said the transaction strengthened Kenan’s plans for further expansion.