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PMTA's Rebecca Oyler says ATA's National Truck Driving and Step Van Driving Championships and CVSA's North American Inspectors Championship share a mission of making highways safer.

Retailers are benefiting from greater consumer resiliency than might have been expected, but the chains creating the most consistent demand are discount stores.

The buying splurge is being spearheaded by China’s state-owned agricultural traders, with the private sector largely sitting on the sidelines because the trade isn’t commercially viable.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude fell 0.1% to $88.84. U.S. gasoline prices edged 2 cents higher overnight to a national average of $4.04 per gallon, according to AAA.

The world faces a shortfall of 1.8 million barrels a day this quarter as “renewed hostilities and maritime disruptions” derail a production recovery in the Middle East, according to IEA.

Proficient Auto Logistics will buy Hansen & Adkins for $130 million in a deal that would make the combined entity the largest auto hauler in North America.

Ann-Marie Campbell, senior executive vice president, will oversee day-to-day operations, and CFO Richard McPhail will lead financial management and the company’s subsidiaries involving professional contractors. 

The escalating rhetoric raises further doubt that any immediate deal can be reached over the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil flowed before the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran on Feb. 28.

Consumer prices rose 3.4% in July from a year ago, down from 3.5% in June, and up 0.1% from June.

Okuda served as president then chairman of Toyota from 1995 through 2006. He is especially remembered for having led the development of the gas-electric hybrid Prius, introduced in 1997.