Diesel and gasoline both rose for a third straight week, with diesel jumping 9.6 cents to $2.801 a gallon, its highest level in almost a year, the Energy Department said.
October 27, 2009FuelBusinessLogisticsGovernment
Gasoline Jumps 18垄 in Two Weeks, to $2.66 a Gallon
Regular gasoline jumped 18 cents in the past two weeks to a national average $2.66 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of fuel prices.
October 26, 2009BusinessFuelSafetyGovernment
Cap-and-Trade Will Raise Price of Diesel, ATA鈥檚 Windsor Says
WASHINGTON 鈥 The first vice chairwoman of American Trucking Associations joined a pair of Republican senators to decry the climate legislation being debated in Congress, saying it will amount to a huge tax increase on fuel.
October 26, 2009BusinessGovernmentSafetyFuel
ATA, Long Beach Settle Port Suit
The Port of Long Beach and American Trucking Associations last week reached an out-of-court settlement of ATA鈥檚 federal lawsuit challenging portions of the port鈥檚 Clean Trucks Plan. The agreement will simplify the registration process for carriers moving containers at the port.
October 26, 2009BusinessFuelGovernment
Forward Air鈥檚 3Q Income Declines
Forward Air Corp. said late Wednesday its third-quarter profit fell to $3.8 million, or 13 cents per share, from $12.1 million, or 42 cents, a year ago.
October 21, 2009BusinessSafetyFuel
ATA, Port of Long Beach Settle Lawsuit
Officials with the Port of Long Beach and American Trucking Associations reached an out-of-court settlement to ATA鈥檚 federal lawsuit Monday, announcing that the port鈥檚 concession requirement contained in the clean trucks plan will be replaced with a registration process.
October 20, 2009FuelBusinessLogisticsGovernment
Diesel Jumps a Dime to $2.705
Diesel fuel鈥檚 national average price jumped 10.5 cents to $2.705 a gallon, its highest price since November, the Department of Energy said Monday.
October 20, 2009GovernmentBusinessFuel
EPA Says Clean Diesel Efforts Are Working
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last week its clean diesel efforts have produced $500 million to $1.4 billion in public health benefits.
October 19, 2009BusinessGovernmentSafetyFuel
Opinion: Intermodal Isn鈥檛 鈥楪reener鈥 Than Trucks
You can鈥檛 watch television these days without hearing some railroad company advertising the 鈥済reen鈥 benefits of moving freight from the road to rail. The most often heard is the claim by one major railroad that 鈥渙ne ton of freight can be moved 436 miles on one gallon of fuel.鈥
October 19, 2009EditorialBusinessFuelGovernment
Fuel and the Rebounding Economy
There was further evidence last week of the growing link between fuel prices and Wall Street, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 10,000 for the first time in a year, and the price of crude oil exceeded $75 a barrel for the first time since September 2008.
October 19, 2009