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Business inventories were unchanged in February from a month earlier, while business sales fell 0.6% following a 1.2% increase, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

U.S. consumer sentiment has improved in April, according to the University of Michigan’s preliminary monthly index released Thursday.

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 12,000 to 313,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The price of goods imported to the United States fell 0.4% in March, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Crude oil futures closed at more than $69 a barrel for the first time this year, the highest price since Sept. 1 following Hurricane Katrina, Bloomberg reported.

Auto transporter Allied Holdings said Thursday it has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking “interim relief” from the company’s contract with the Teamsters union.

As chairmen of American Trucking Associations’ Safety Policy and Regulations committees, we are concerned by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s recent announcement that it would begin reposting for public access SafeStat data and scores.

The U.S. trade deficit declined from a record in January to $6.75 billion in February, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

German firm Deutsche Post it will continue to post losses in North America this year, after having previously forecast that it will be making money by the fourth quarter of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. verybody seems to think trucks are causing all the accidents. Most trucks have governors. We also have lane restrictions and lower speed limits and we still have accidents — go figure.