FedEx Corp. said Wednesday it plans to improve the fuel efficiency of its FedEx Express vehicle fleet by 20% and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its aircraft fleet by 20% by 2020.
November 12, 2008Fuel, Business
FedEx Targets Boosting Fleet Fuel Efficiency 20% by 2020
Fuel, Business, Logistics, Government
Diesel Falls Below $3 a Gallon
Diesel fuel’s national average price fell below $3 for the first time since September 2007, dropping 14.4 cents to $2.944 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.
November 12, 2008Business, Fuel, Government
DHL to End U.S. Ground and Air Domestic Operations
DHL Express said Monday it will end its U.S. domestic services in January and focus on its international shipping business.
November 10, 2008Government, Business, Fuel
UPS Expanding U.K., German ‘Green’ Fleets
UPS Inc. Monday said it ordered 12 electric vehicles from British manufacturer Modec, which makes zero-emission delivery vans, for use in Germany and the United Kingdom.
November 10, 2008Business, Equipment, Fuel, Safety, Government
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, 2008Fuel, Business, Government
Fuel Prices Continue Plunge
The U.S. retail diesel fuel average dropped 20 cents to $3.088 a gallon last week, the lowest price in more than a year as inventories remained high and demand remained low, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.
November 10, 2008Fuel, Business, Safety, Government, Logistics
Clean Energy Acquires Las Vegas CNG Stations
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada has agreed to transfer ownership of five Las Vegas public compressed natural gas fueling stations to Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Clean Energy said Friday.
November 7, 2008Business, Fuel
Oil Falls to Below $66 a Barrel
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.
November 5, 2008Business, Safety, Government, Fuel
Letters 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, 2008Fuel, Business, Logistics, Government
Diesel 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, 2008