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Industrial production rose 0.4% in July, the third increase in the past four months, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday..

The average price of retail diesel fuel rose 1.1 cents to $1.825 per gallon, the third straight week it has set a new record high, the Department of Energy said Monday.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that consumer prices fell 0.1% in July, the first decline in eight months..

The federal government probably would wait until just before a 45-day court deadline expires before announcing its response to the court’s decision overturning its revised driver hours-of-service regulations, said Department of Justice officials.

The price of crude oil futures in New York rose to a record $46.95 a barrel on Tuesday afternoon as strong economic reports boosted concern that production capacity may not be adequate to meet global demand, Bloomberg reported.

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WASHINGTON — Visitors can get their kicks walking on an actual piece of the famous Route 66 and get a feel for how the development of the interstate highway system and the trucking industry changed American life here at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History exhibit, “America on the Move.”

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Gasoline prices dropped about 5 cents in the past three weeks, according to the Lundberg survey of 8,000 stations nationwide, but rising crude oil prices would likely cause prices to rise in the weeks ahead, analyst Trilby Lundberg said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith diesel prices hitting successive record highs, yet still trailing the even-faster run to new records almost daily in the crude oil markets, trucking will soon be hit more heavily in the pocket with rocketing fuel costs.