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Both consumer confidence and manufacturing activity slipped slightly in April, but both remained on the positive side of the ledger, according to reports released Monday.

Former Yellow Corp. Security Chief George Rodriguez began his new job as director of cargo security at the Transportation Security Administration on April 22, various sources said.

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Oil industry executives Tuesday denied charges, contained in a Senate subcommittee report, that they had withheld supplies to force up gasoline prices during tight markets, the Associated Press reported.

Any benefits from the nation's budding economic recovery gave little boost to trucking's first-quarter earnings, as carriers reported that they scrounged for freight in January and February before enjoying a modest March uptick.

Consumer spending helped moderate the recession, but it also takes some of the zing out of the recovery, news reports said Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rucking has always been a good barometer of the national economy, and the news from a host of trucking companies is that this long-anticipated recovery has yet to get a solid footing. arly signs of a pickup are certainly emerging, and at least the optimists among us believe that things are finally getting better out there.

For most of the past 20 years, for-hire trucking companies have steadily picked up more of the freight that manufacturers and other corporations used to distribute in their own trucks.