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The value of U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico in September decreased by 8.8% year-over-year to $93.2 billion, although truck freight value slipped by just 0.1%, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Trucking Moves America Forward has opened an online store, SHOP TMAF, as a next step in an extension of the industrywide image and education movement’s awareness and branding goals.

The U.S. average retail diesel price fell 3.7 cents a gallon to $2.445, its lowest point in nearly 6 1/2 years, the Department of Energy reported Nov. 23.

Arnold Wellman, former president of global public affairs at UPS Inc. and a three-term congressman from Connecticut, died Oct. 7 of complications related to a lung transplant. He was 61.

QualaWash Holdings LLC, a unit of Roark Capital Group, said it acquired wastewater services company Gator Environmental & Rentals Inc.

The U.S. economy expanded at a faster pace in the third quarter than previously reported, reflecting a smaller hit from efforts to rein in bloated inventories.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities climbed more than forecast in September from the same month last year, signaling residential real estate is sustaining momentum.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and two insurers are battling in multiple courtrooms over portions of the legal settlement arising from the 2014 crash between one of the retailer’s trucks and a van carrying comedy star Tracy Morgan and three colleagues.

A new study decrying the state of the nation’s congested highways arrived just in time for the holidays as a record 47 million Americans hit the road and Congress begins debating the merits of a long-term highway bill, several transportation leaders said at a Nov. 23 news conference.