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Consumer confidence in the economy fell to 98.2 in August from a revised two-year high of 105.7 the month before, the Conference Board said Tuesday.

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The Department of Justice on Monday filed a motion asking a federal court to stay for at least six more months its earlier reversal of the new hours-of-service rules for truck drivers that took effect in January, according to court documents.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to stay further action in Public Citizen Et. Al v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Staying the court's decision would allow the agency time to address and to correct the concerns of the court about the new hours-of-service rule.

ATA filed a motion with the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Aug. 30 asking it for an indefinite stay of the effective date of its decision overturning the current hours-of-service regulations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration filed a similar stay request on the same date.

The U.S. average price for retail diesel fuel declined 0.3 cent to $1.871 per gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday, the first decrease since June 21 in the national average price of commercial trucking's main fuel.

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The price of retail regular gasoline rose 0.5 cent during the past two weeks, the first increase since May, but falling crude oil prices would likely cause the gasoline to fall again in the weeks ahead, an industry analyst said Sunday.

SALT LAKE CITY — Before 3,000 cheering spectators here, FedEx Freight’s Wayne Crowder became the first person in the 67-year history of the National Truck Driving Championships to win honors as both the Rookie of the Year and the Grand Champion, for 2004.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration planned to work with Department of Justice lawyers right up to an Aug. 30 deadline for filing the government’s response to a court decision that threw out FMCSA’s revised hours-of-service rules, an agency spokesman said Aug. 25.