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A gauge of service industries declined in July to an almost three-year low as orders continued to cool, indicating a sluggish start to the third quarter for the biggest part of the economy.

Despite an industry shakeout that has been dubbed the retail apocalypse, store workers who have hung in there are seeing better pay than a generation ago, even with inflation.

China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariff threat with another escalation of the trade war Aug. 5, asking state-owned companies to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.

Kevin Mailand’s biggest challenge en route to winning Grand Champion honors at the 2019 Kansas Truck Driving Championships was getting to Topeka in the first place. Five years earlier, he was diagnosed with Stage 3 esophageal cancer.

Hundreds of top truck drivers soon will descend on Pittsburgh for the 82nd annual National Truck Driving Championships.

Since 2009, when the Ohio Truck Driving Championships returned to the hands of the Ohio Trucking Association, the competition not only has been a success with drivers, it has turned into a self-sustaining event.

As the nation’s top truck drivers prepare to convene in Pittsburgh for the National Truck Driving Championships, another group of safety professionals — law enforcement officers — will meet in the same city for its own competition.

The National Truck Driving Championships involves a considerable amount of fanfare, including a rousing breakfast, a parade of equipment and a celebratory awards ceremony. However, there’s a less flashy (but no less important) aspect of NTDC that receives little attention: the scoring process.

Here’s the list of inspectors competing at the 2019 North American Inspectors Championship.

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