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The national average price of diesel fuel bounced to $1.068 per gallon, rising nine-tenths of a cent from the previous week’s average of $1.059 and reversing a four-week slide. The increase was driven in large measure by a 5-cents-a-gallon increase in California.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A congressman who also is a trucking executive is pressing for passage of legislation that would speed up restoration of the 80% tax deduction for meal while truckers are on the road.

Three weeks into the division of Conrail between Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads, incompatible computer systems have caused so many problems that United Parcel Service, their biggest intermodal customer, has pulled 50% of its traffic off both railroads and put it back on the highways.

WASHINGTON - Consumers could pay more for a wide variety of goods transported by truck if the government demands cleaner-burning diesel fuel, regulators and trucking industry officials say.

Federal transportation officials are fighting the legal and financial roadblocks that threaten to hamper reconstruction of one of the East Coast’s most important traffic conduits and disrupt trucking operations.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - While fallout from the Conrail buyout is disrupting freight traffic on some of the nation's rail lines, its ripples are also being felt by Amtrak, whose passenger trains are being delayed by idled freight cars clogging the lines.

GREENWOOD, Miss. - A Greenwood truck driver was injured Friday when his tractor-trailer rig collided with Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger train, officials said.

DENVER - Teamsters officials on Friday criticized NationsWay Transport for allegedly paying back wages only to employees who continued to work for the transport firm after it filed for bankruptcy last month.

Covenant Transport, Chattanooga, Tenn., said it expects to report second quarter profits above analysts' estimates. It is the third trucking company in the past week to project better than expected earnings.