Government

Consumer confidence fell to a five-year low this month, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Beiqi Foton Motor Co., China’s biggest maker of commercial vehicles, reported a jump in its first-quarter profit, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The federal government has offered Los Angeles County $213 million to convert carpool lanes to special, congestion-pricing toll lanes on three freeways, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The New York the Thruway Authority’s board of directors has approved a series of toll hikes that will bring in an additional $125 million annually, the Associated Press reported.

Hundreds of truck drivers descended on Washington Monday to protest high diesel prices, WRC-4 television reported on its Web site.

The Montana Department of Transportation is exploring whether the state can impose limits on large-truck traffic on state Highway 35, the Associated Press reported.

PRINCETON, N.J. — ALK Technologies will add a Web-based version of its PC Miler mapping and routing software to the company’s family of truck navigation products this year, ALK’s chief technology officer said.

The Illinois Department of Transportation said the number of highway construction work zone fatalities in the state has fallen by more than half in the past four years, the Associated Press reported.

WASHINGTON — The government should not only stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but also consider releasing oil to help lower the price of diesel fuel, Dave Berry, chairman of the American Trucking Associations’ environmental and energy policy committee, told Congress last week.