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U.S. industrial production rose 0.2% in July, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence improved this month, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

Manufacturing growth in New York state improved this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way Inc. has hired the former chief financial officer of competitor YRC Worldwide as its new CFO.

The national diesel average declined 14.9 cents last week to $4.353 a gallon, the fourth straight drop that has lowered the price of trucking’s main fuel by 41.1 cents a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

Kenneth Grimmett has been driving heavy trucks down interstates for 14 years, but he’ll be a “rookie” later this week when he climbs inside the cab of a flatbed rig parked in the middle of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

The number of Americans killed in truck-related crashes fell 4.4% to 4,808 last year, the lowest total in 15 years, the Department of Transportation said last week.

Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. last week reversed its decision to use only exhaust-gas recirculation to meet 2010 emission standards and said it would instead use urea-based selective catalytic reduction to cut the new engines’ fuel consumption.

U.S. road fatalities and truck-related fatalities both declined last year, the Department of Transportation said Thursday.