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President Obama has nominated David Strickland to be the next administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the White House announced.

FedEx Corp. said it will raise Ground and ���ϳԹ��� Delivery rates by an average of 4.9% in 2010 and also reported that its fiscal second-quarter earnings will be higher than Wall Street expectations, mostly because of volume growth.

Early in 2008, when forecasts called for a continued, long-term rise in ocean shipping activity, many maritime companies accelerated the building of new vessels and leased as many containers as they could obtain.

The U.S. diesel average inched down another 0.3 cent to $2.772 a gallon last week, the fifth straight decline, the Department of Energy reported.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is preparing to propose requiring “a much larger population of carriers” to use electronic onboard recorders to monitor driver hours-of-service than it earlier envisioned, an agency official said.

Trucking company failures during the third quarter markedly trailed the record pace for last year, as freight demand stabilized and showed early signs of a coming improvement in rates, according to a new report from Avondale Partners.

Companies including FedEx Corp. have begun reinstating some employee benefits as the economy has shown signs of improvement, USA Today reported Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence improved in December for the first time in three months, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Business inventories rose in October for the first time in a year, the Commerce Department said Friday.