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The price of diesel fuel jumped 2.7 cents a gallon this week, the biggest one-week rise since April, and futures prices for crude oil hit their highest levels since the Persian Gulf War.

The old Greyhound slogan of “Leave the Driving to Us” has been revised for shippers as the nation’s largest intercity bus carrier wants businesses to leave the package delivery to its drivers.

The Teamsters placed Local 115 in Philadelphia in trusteeship and removed its top executive Nov. 14, citing an abuse of member rights and failure to protect union finances.

Picket line at Overnite grows tense with reports of violence in Ark.; CN rail boss calls for tax equity with trucks; and Proposed Nafta processing center on I-35 could be ready by late 2000.

This afternoon's headlines: Oshkosh Truck prices common stock offering; Whiskey truck hijacked near Miami Intl. Airport; and Trucker found guilty of manslaughter in fatal wreck.

United Parcel Service is being sued for $14 billion by some if its customers for insurance fraud, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

Employment attorney Thomas P. Krukowski, who represented the Teamsters union in the early 1970s, gave a gathering of trucking executives a glimpse of what the union's strategy should be.

A lawyer told dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers that the recent Supreme Court rulings on the Americans With Disabilities Act was a major win for trucking companies.

This afternoon's headlines: Planned New Orleans port hopes to create one big cargo terminal; Ontario police aim to cut down on cargo theft; and Volvo reports more N. America deliveries.

Ford Motor Co. and Oracle Corp. will attempt to set up a $300 billion online automotive supply chain, which they say would be the world’s largest business-to business electronic network.