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Consumer confidence rose this month from its lowest level in almost three years, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. economy rose at a 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, boosting an earlier estimate.

Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 18.1% in July from a year ago, the Department of Transportation reported.

Some truckload carriers say they are concerned about potential industrywide implications of a class-action lawsuit challenging the way Swift Transportation, one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, calculates the mileage basis for paying truck drivers.

President Obama, speaking before a bridge on the Ohio-Kentucky border that carries heavy truck traffic, made a pitch for infrastructure spending and his jobs plan.

The Federal Reserve Wednesday maintained a pledge it made last month to hold the benchmark interest rate near zero through the middle of 2013 as long as unemployment stays high and the inflation outlook is “subdued,” Bloomberg reported.

Georgia is ending its program of having some local police departments conduct truck inspections, a move the state trucking industry applauds.

Vigillo LLC said it has released a new product called Carrier Select, which allows freight brokers, shippers and insurance providers to analyze carrier performance.

The Ontario Trucking Association is offering a reward and asking for the public’s help in finding people who threw rocks at trucks on a highway Friday in Woodstock, Ontario, after a trucker was injured.

This is in reference to the editorial “Fixing the EOBR Rule.” What we need to fix the electronic onboard recorder rule — and many other inane decisions by activist jurists — is a little real-world common sense.