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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Freight volumes have now fallen in three of the past four months, according to ATA’s Truck Tonnage Index, including a 3.3% dip in the recently released March numbers.

Intermodal volume jumped 7.3% to 226,253 trailers or containers for the week ended April 30, the highest level ever for the first half of a year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

U.S. workers’ productivity grew at a 2.6% annual rate in the first quarter, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said late Wednesday it earned $68 million or 35 cents a share for the first quarter, turning around a loss of $78 million or 45 cents a year earlier.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. nternational trade through the Los Angeles region will grow by more than 14% this year to a record $302.1 billion, according to an economic study released Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington Inc. late Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $37.7 million or 34 cents a share, up 19% from $31.8 million or 29 cents last year.

The number of U.S. workers filing for initial unemployment benefits rose by 11,000 in the week ended April 30, the second week of increases following three weeks of declines, the Labor Department said Thursday.

General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the two biggest U.S. automakers, had their credit ratings reduced to junk-bond status by Standard & Poor's.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday against the District of Columbia’s law banning rail transportation of hazardous materials in the nation’s capital.