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After a drop in January, freight volumes rebounded in February as American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.8% to 154.9.

The Department of Transportation said Tuesday its transportation services index rose 0.8% in January to 121.4, the highest level in its 14-year history.

The Transportation Security Administration announced April 1 that it was delaying implementation until 2005 of its regulation that would have required fingerprint-based background checks of hazardous materials drivers this year.

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The Institute for Supply Management said Monday its non-manufacturing index rose to a record 65.8 in March from 60.8 the month before.

The California Air Resources Board said it agreed with diesel engine makers on what the agency called a voluntary plan to upgrade emissions reduction software.

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Payrolls surged by 308,000 in March, the largest gain in nearly four years, but the unemployment rate rose to 5.7% from 5.6% as more people returned to the labor force to look for work, the Labor Department said Friday.

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