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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he seemingly endless rise of fuel prices is beginning to take a serious toll on the nation’s economy and the outlook for the trucking industry.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. urface trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico rose 9.6% in April to $58.3 billion from the April 2004, the Department of Transportation reported.

Refrigerated truckload carrier C.R. England said it has purchased third-party logistics company Carson Transport for an undisclosed sum.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. anufacturing activity in the Chicago area decreased in June, the National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said Thursday.

Personal spending remained steady in May, after rising in each of the previous three months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The number of U.S. workers filing for initial unemployment benefits fell 6,000 to 310,000 for the week ended June 25, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Wilson Logistics Group, which was acquired by TNT Logistics North America in August, changed its name to TNT Freight Management, TNT said Thursday.

The U.S. government is preparing a civil racketeering lawsuit against the International Longshoremen’s Association union, the New York Times reported Thursday.

The Federal Reserve Thursday unanimously raised the benchmark U.S. interest rate a quarter-point to 3.25%, the highest since October 2001, and again said it could carry out additional increases at a “measured” pace.

Less-than-truckload carrier Overnite Corp.’s board of directors said late Tuesday that the company’s shareholders will vote Aug. 4 on Overnite’s pending acquisition by UPS Inc.