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Pennsylvania truckers, who already pay the nation’s highest diesel fuel taxes, won’t be happy when they fill their vehicles after the New Year. That’s because on Jan. 1 that tax will rise from 63.87 cents per gallon to 77.59 cents per gallon.

Retail giant Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer, dropping off a Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn to a house in the English countryside 13 minutes after receiving an online order.

FedEx shares hit $200 Dec. 13 for the first time, propelled by a stock market surge since the election of Donald Trump.

Werner Enterprises Inc. finished a project to improve and expand the truckload company’s Laredo, Texas, terminal, the company announced Dec. 14.

Pilot Flying J President Jimmy Haslam emerged the evening of Dec. 13 from a daylong deposition in a civil lawsuit over the firm's alleged diesel fuel rebate scam with another denial of any role or knowledge of the fraud to which several subordinates have confessed or are facing indictment.

Florida's seaports have added 200,000 jobs to the state's economy since 2012, the Florida Port Council announced at a Tampa press conference Dec. 13.

U.S. factory output dropped in November for the first time in three months, showing an anemic recovery in manufacturing after an extended slowdown.

Sales at U.S. retailers rose less than forecast in November, representing a pause in spending after robust gains in the previous two months.

Wholesale prices in the U.S. rose from a year earlier by the most since 2014 as food costs and retail margins increased, helping bring inflation closer to the Federal Reserve’s goal.

WASHINGTON — Representatives from government, private and nonprofit sectors discussed best practices and examples of successful projects Dec. 13 while offering advice to the incoming Trump administration and lawmakers on how to fix the $3.3 trillion infrastructure funding shortfall.