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EIA says diesel price unchanged, ProMiles reports small drop

The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel did not change from the prior week in the week ended Monday, Oct. 21., remaining at $3.886, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration.

October 22, 2013

Running two-year chart of weekly fuel prices, according to the Energy Information Administration.

ATA economy panel: Low GDP growth, higher costs will pressure carrier margins

More of the same from the economy, with a real chance for rate traction just over the next hill: that’s the message delivered – yet again – by a panel of experts during this year’s crystal ball session at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference and Exhibition. Until the delicately balanced supply-and-demand scale tilts trucking’s way, the bottom line for carriers is to continue to guard the bottom line.

October 21, 2013

ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. (File photo)

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Diesel price down a cent, remains down nearly 30 cents from 2012

The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fuel dropped one cent in the week ended Oct. 14 to $3.834, according to ProMiles’ Fuel Surcharge Index. The national average is 29.2 cents lower than the same week in 2012.

October 14, 2013

Trucking conditions improve in August, but hours impact approaching says FTR

The Trucking Conditions Index, produced monthly by FTR Associates, moved to a reading of 9.52 in August, which FTR is calling “an expected peak” before the conditions begin to deteriorate. Watch out for Washington, too, FTR says.

October 14, 2013

Diesel price projections for 2013 and 2014 see significant drops

The DOE has once again changed its projection for diesel prices in 2013, this time downwardly revising an early September forecast that it would average $3.96 a gallon to this week’s projection that it will only average $3.93 a gallon.

October 11, 2013

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CARB rips EPA's 'sloppy and amateurish' effort to repeal GHG regs

CARB charges that the EPA is ignoring decades of its own science to repeal greenhouse gas regulations, putting public health and the economy at risk.

Blue road sign showing electric vehicle charging station symbol near trees

Truck makers' challenge to Clean Truck pact a response to a bad deal

Red semi-trucks and passenger vehicles driving on a highway through green forested landscape

Clean Truck group asks truck and engine OEMs to drop lawsuit

Line of big rig semi trucks with loaded semi trailers standing on the at the weighing station with scales for weighing along the axes.

Group launches campaign against heavier truck limits

White semi-truck parked in front of stacked shipping containers in industrial yard

Multimodal group established to modernize freight movement

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