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Trailer Bridge Inc. lost $308,000, or 3 cents a share, in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $768,000, or 6 cents, a year ago.

Housing starts rose in April to the highest level in a year and a half, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Prices paid to U.S. producers increased 0.1% in April, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

Diesel took its biggest drop in 16 weeks, declining 3.3 cents to $3.094 a gallon, the Department of Energy said.

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President Obama will nominate FBI Deputy Director John Pistole to head the Transportation Security Administration, the White House said Monday.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. said that it has ordered 750 new Freightliner Cascadia tractors and 600 VN670 tractors from Volvo Trucks North America, all with 2010 selective catalytic reduction emissions technology, partially because of growing freight demand.

Agents of the California Air Resources Board have fanned out to ticket truck operators who fail to comply with the state's complicated schedule for reducing emissions from the small diesel engines that power transport refrigeration.

The Department of Transportation said last week that it expects to publish in mid-December its follow-up proposal to require more fleets to use electronic onboard recorders.

IdleAire Inc. said that it will reopen its idle-reduction facilities at 23 truck stops after ceasing operations in January.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region rose for the 10th consecutive month in May but expanded at a slower rate than April, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.

Oil prices continued to decline, falling almost $2 to below $70nbsp;a barrel in early trading Monday, the lowest level in more than three months, Bloomberg reported.

General Motors Co. said Monday it earned $865 million in the first quarter, its first quarterly profit since 2007.

Daimler AG will end its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, citing low trading volumes, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Retail sales rose 0.4% in April, the seventh consecutive monthly increase, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Industrial production rose in April by the most in three months, gaining 0.8%, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

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

Business inventories rose 0.4% in March as sales surged, the Commerce Department said Friday. Sales jumped 2.3%, the biggest since November.

Intermodal traffic volume gained 8.4% in the fourth quarter, an improvement over the fourth quarter's decline of 6.4%, the Intermodal Association of North America said.

Two senators unveiled a long-awaited carbon emissions reductions bill Wednesday that could spur increases in the cost of diesel fuel for motor carriers.