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The U.S. average retail diesel price broke its record high for the third straight week, surging to $3.819 a gallon and topping $4 a gallon in some places, pushed by soaring crude oil prices that also set all-time highs and closed above $110 a barrel for the first time in history.

Historically, trucking companies have relied on information technology systems — both in the cab and in the office — that run proprietary software on proprietary hardware, effectively making it impossible for one manufacturer’s system to access data gathered by another service.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way Freight announced last week that it will set speed governors on its trucks at a maximum of 62 mph, down from 65 mph — a move the company said will cut its diesel consumption by about 3.2 million gallons a year.

Volvo Trucks North America and the United Auto Workers said they reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year contract at Volvo’s Virginia heavy-duty truck assembly plant, where about 2,600 workers have been on strike since Feb. 1.

The Environmental Protection Agency reduced its primary eight-hour ozone standard to 0.075 parts per million from 0.084 ppm to comply with the requirements of the Clean Air Act.

U.S. consumer confidence fell to a 16-year low this month, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

The consumer price index was unchanged in February, the Labor Department said Friday.