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American Trucking Associations last week selected 13 drivers to represent the trucking industry as safety ambassadors and role models as part of America’s Road Team for 2005-06.

Celadon to Buy CX Roberson's Truckload Van Business • Heartland Earns $16.6 Million in 4Q • Con-Way Truckload Begins Operations • Manufacturing in N.Y. Expands at Slower Pace in January • And more...

Production at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose 0.8% in December, making 2004 the best year for industrial output since 2000, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.

The Labor Department reported Friday wholesale prices declined 0.7% in December, the biggest decline since April 2003, but for the entire year, prices rose the most in 14 years.

The Chicago region needs to spend $4.5 billion over the next 25 years to avoid a gridlock of freight traffic, which is expected to double in the next two decades, said a nonprofit organization comprising transportation and land-use planners, ex-government and corporate officials.

Crude oil closed at a 6-week high Friday, closing at $48.30 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on concerns over cold weather predicted to sweep into the U.S. from Canada this weekend, Bloomberg News reported.

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CN Railway Reaches Accord with Steelworkers Union • UP Resumes Limited Service in Southern California • Business Inventories Rise in November • Ohio Turnpike Workers Threaten Strike • And more...

The Commerce Department said Thursday that sales at retailers in December rose 1.2%, the most in three months. For the year, sales totaled a record $4.06 trillion, up 8% from a year earlier.

Despite efforts by many public truckload carriers to avoid expanding in 2005, overall trucking capacity was poised to grow modestly this year, fleet suppliers, analysts and trucking executives said.