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December 23, 1999 10:42 AM, EST

A slight drop in the price of diesel fuel marked the third straight week of declines, but costs are expected to remain close to the three-year high reached in November.

	Fuel Prices
	Week of Dec. 20:
	source	price	change
	DOE	128.7	-0.1
	Comdata	126.6	-1.0
	OPIS self-serve	127.9	-0.9
	OPIS wholesale	71.0	-1.0

The Energy Information Administration reported the national average price of diesel was $1.287 a gallon on Dec. 20, 0.1 cent lower than the previous week.

The relatively stable level recently — drops in the past three weeks have totaled 1.7 cents — has been a change from most of 1999, which has seen the price plummet to a historic low of 95.3 cents a gallon in February and rise to a high of $1.304 cents a gallon on Nov. 29.

But Diego Saltes, an analyst with the Economics and Statistical Analysis Department of American Trucking Associations, doesn’t see a significant price drop coming soon.

For the full story, see the Dec. 27 print edition of Transport Topics. .