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The average U.S. retail price of diesel fuel fell 28.1 cents to $2.876 a gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. .S. manufacturing declined in October but expanded at the second-fastest pace of the year, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s monthly factory index report released Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. onstruction spending rose 0.5% in September to a record level, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. pecialty truck maker Oshkosh Truck Corp. Tuesday reported it earned $42.8 million or 58 cents a share for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $30 million or 42 cents a year ago.

Freight forwarder Target Logistics on Tuesday reported net income for its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30 was $477,078 or 2 cents a share, up from $245,723 or 1 cent a year earlier.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington Tuesday reported it earned $55.8 million or 50 cents a share in the third quarter, compared with $43.1 million or 39 cents a share in the previous third quarter.

Joe Artuso will re-place Marty Thomas as president of General Electric’s Trailer Fleet Services business, GE said last month.

Commercial vehicle component maker Accuride Corp. on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings of $19.1 million or 55 cents a share, compared with $7.1 million or 46 cents a year earlier on a pro-forma basis.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>SAN DIEGO — Several leading trucking executives last week called for the creation of a national transportation policy to help build new highways and replace aging bridges to lessen congestion.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Federal Reserve Tuesday voted unanimously to raise the benchmark U.S. interest rate a quarter-point to 4%.