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A group of companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Ford Motor Co. and Uber Technologies Inc., are forming a coalition to advocate for safety regulations for self-driving cars and help bring them to American roads.

Consumer confidence retreated more than forecast in April as Americans’ optimism about the outlook for the economy and employment waned.

Canadian trucking and logistics company Dicom Transportation Group announced the appointment of two top-level executives for the parcel and less-than-truckload carrier.

Orders for U.S. durable goods climbed less than forecast in March as demand for capital equipment remained weak, a sign that a diminished growth outlook is impeding investment.

Truck driver turnover at smaller fleets leaped 21 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2015, while churn at larger fleets reached even more elevated levels in spite of lackluster freight demand, American Trucking Associations reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Leaders of four of the largest U.S. transportation companies, speaking in a ballroom largely filled with shippers, identified issues they each were most passionate about, among them: regulations and infrastructure, electronic logging devices, productivity and the true cost of service.

The U.S. average retail diesel price rose by 3.3 cents following a 3.7-cent increase the prior week.

On one end of a dock at America’s busiest port, tractor-trailers haul containers through dense, stop-and-go traffic. Sometimes they collide. Sometimes the drivers must wait, diesel engines idling, as piles are unstacked to find the specific container they need.