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The national average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline fell 3 cents to $2.30 a gallon over the past three weeks, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

MHF Logistical Solutions said it developed a sensor with a long-lasting battery that will allow its customers to remotely monitor rail cars, containers and their contents.

Canadian transportation and logistics firm TransForce Income Fund Friday reported record results for its fourth quarter, with a profit of $31.3 million or 41 cents a share, up from $17.5 million or 30 cents a year earlier.

The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record for a fourth straight year in 2005 as both Chinese imports and energy prices soared to record high levels, Bloomberg reported Friday.

UPS Inc. and Ryder System each said late Thursday they were boosting their stock dividends.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. The trucking industry is being overtaxed. Federal and state tax liabilities are rising at a more rapid rate for trucking than for the air and rail carriers with which motor carriers compete.

Motor carriers should be on the lookout for a counterfeit letter that looks like it is from the U.S. Department of Transportation asking for financial information, according to the Truckload Carriers Association.

The 49-day suspension of Minnesota’s law requiring that all diesel fuel sold in the state contain 2% biodiesel ended Friday, Minnesota Department of Commerce officials said.

Nicole Nason, President Bush’s nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, pledged to make the nation’s highways and roads safer for families while tackling issues like vehicle rollovers and teenage crashes, the Associated Press reported.

Truckload carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services reported a fourth-quarter profit of $4.3 million or 41 cents a share, rising from $1.8 million or 16 cents for the same period in 2004.