Crude oil fell more than $5 to below $66 a barrel Wednesday following an Energy Department report that showed an unexpected increase in gasoline inventories last week, Bloomberg reported.
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Shippers Seek to Cut Costs as Revenue Growth Stalls
Prodded by soaring fuel prices and the contracting economy, shippers have spent most of 2008 trying to pare transportation spending to meet demands by company executives looking for antidotes to stagnant revenue growth.
November 10, 2008Letters to the Editor: LTL Reweighing; DOE’s Fuel Surveys; TWIC: Why Bother?; Limit Cars, Not Rigs; Goodbye, California
The letter writer who commented on less-than-truckload reweighing in the Oct. 13 issue of Transport Topics has led a sheltered experience in the trucking industry.
November 5, 2008SCR Group Urges Strict Urea Guidelines
When heavy-duty engines with selective catalytic reduction technology start rolling in 2010, truckers refilling their trucks’ urea tanks will need to follow strict guidelines to protect the product’s purity to avoid damaging the aftertreatment system, urea experts said.
November 3, 2008Diesel Falls Another 20¢ to $3.088
Diesel fuel’s national average pump price continued its almost four-month decline, dropping 20 cents to $3.088 a gallon, the Energy Department said Monday.
November 4, 2008Diesel Declines Another 19.4¢ to $3.288
The average price of U.S. retail diesel shed another 19.4 cents last week, dropping to $3.288 a gallon, while the gasoline average fell below year-ago levels for the first time in 2008, according to the Department of Energy.
November 3, 2008Maritime Commission to Challenge SoCal Ports’ Trucks Program
The Federal Maritime Commission voted to seek a court order to stop parts of the southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach’s clean trucks program, the Associated Press reported.
October 30, 2008CARB Diesel Regs Available for Public Comment
The California Air Resources Board has made available for public comment the latest draft version of two regulations that are aimed at cleaning up emissions from the estimated 1 million heavy-duty diesel trucks that operate in California.
October 27, 2008Oil Hits 17-Month Low Near $60 a Barrel
With world financial markets in turmoil, the price of crude oil continued to tumble, reaching a 17-month low below $62 a barrel, Bloomberg reported Monday.
October 27, 2008Volvo Trucks Debuts ‘Fuelwatch’ for Fleets to Chart Performance
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Volvo Trucks North America has launched a program to tap into the stream of data each of its trucks creates to help fleets measure their vehicles’ fuel efficiency performance.
October 27, 2008