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The average retail diesel fuel price jumped 2.1 cents per gallon to $1.438, the highest national average since Sept. 24, 2001, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Technology companies tried to convince a House subcommittee to fund projects they said would allow more traffic to use existing highways, but several members of Congress at a recent hearing said they were skeptical.

WASHINGTON — President Bush ordered federal agencies to speed environmental reviews for major transportation projects, arguing that excessive red tape had impeded the construction of airports and highways.

The terrorist attacks on America a year ago devastated thousands of families, slammed the economy, led to the international war on terrorism and forced a profound shift in Americans’ thinking about their own security.

WASHINGTON — President Bush has requested $20 million from Congress to pay for the American Trucking Associations-led trucking industry anti-terrorism program in fiscal 2003.

American Trucking Associations will keep fighting the Oct. 1 federal deadline for new trucks to use reduced-emissions diesel engines, but will also educate policymakers about future regulatory deadlines, ATA President William J. Canary said.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Officials at Schneider National, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, said they have tested several engines being marketed in response to an Oct. 1 federal emissions change deadline but have not found any that meet the company’s needs.

The Justice Department has decided to scale back its controversial Operation TIPS program, but has retained truck drivers among the group of workers who could be recruited by the government to report suspected terrorist activities, its new written policy stated.

The California Trucking Association and several environmental and labor groups have refuted the federal government’s claim that the groups would be unaffected by heavier-polluting Mexican trucks.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Chief Safety Officer Julie A. Cirillo announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of 2002.