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Interpool Inc. said Wednesday its container subsidiary has entered into an agreement to sell the majority of its cargo containers to a Swiss investor group for $515 million.

Deutsche Post AG, parent of the DHL express-delivery service in North America, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit rose 25% but warned its operating profit likely would be flat this year, news services reported.

Tank truck carrier Quality Distribution said late Monday it earned $6.2 million or 32 cents in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $6.4 million or 35 cents a share in the previous fourth quarter.

Business inventories rose 0.4% in January, and business sales rose by 1.3%, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

February retail sales fell 1.3%, the first drop in six months, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

Oversized and overweight coal trucks could receive special permission to travel up to half a mile on public roads under a bill being considered by the West Virginia House of Delegates, the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette reported.

American Trucking Associations Tuesday filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the Oregon Supreme Court’s rejection of ATA’s challenge to Oregon’s weight-distance tax system.

Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico was 10.2% higher in 2005 than 2004, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

The average price of retail diesel fuel fell 0.2 cent to $2.543 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Great Dane Trailers said Friday that longtime employee Chris Adkins, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, had resigned to pursue a career outside the trailer industry.