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Gasoline prices dropped about 5 cents in the past three weeks, according to the Lundberg survey of 8,000 stations nationwide, but rising crude oil prices would likely cause prices to rise in the weeks ahead, analyst Trilby Lundberg said.

Security and technology were at the top of the agenda when American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves met with top executives of Qualcomm Corp. at the company’s San Diego headquarters in July, the technology supplier said.

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Producer prices rose 0.1% in July as cheaper cars and a drop in the cost of food offset higher energy prices, the Labor Department reported Friday..

Many truckload carriers said profits pushed higher during the second quarter despite a lingering inability to find and retain drivers that prohibited fleet expansion in spite of high demand for freight-hauling services.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Members of a key shippers’ group vented their frustrations over what they said was slow and inadequate freight service to railroad officials who were not able to offer immediate hope for faster transportation of the shippers’ goods.

The price of crude oil futures in New York rose to a record $46.65 a barrel on Friday on speculation a recall vote in Venezuela would disrupt shipments from the fourth-largest supplier to the United States, Bloomberg reported.

Retail sales in the United States rose 0.7% in July after a decrease in June that was less than initially reported, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.