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Retail diesel prices will peak this month before beginning a slow decline through the end of the year, the Energy Department said Tuesday.

Mexican trucks delivered goods beyond a border region of the U.S. for the first time this weekend, under a test program by the two governments, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

Ford Motor Co. said an Illinois judge dismissed a lawsuit by Navistar International Corp. over diesel engines Navistar supplies for Ford’s pickup trucks, Bloomberg reported.

Con-way Inc.’s logistics unit Menlo Worldwide said Sunday it signed an agreement to purchase the privately held parent company of a Chinese logistics firm for $60 million.

As the volume of world trade continues to grow, shippers and third-party logistics companies are looking for ways to better manage the flow of goods coming into and out of the United States.

With less than two weeks left before a federal appeals court ruling goes into effect nullifying key parts of the driver hours-of-service rule, American Trucking Associations asked the court and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to temporarily maintain current driver hours.

The Department of Transportation said Monday that six major interstate routes will be the first to participate in a new federal initiative called “Corridors of the Future” to develop multi-state corridors to help reduce congestion.

In the transportation industry, every trucking company, large or small, does essentially the same thing: Pick up and deliver. So how can smaller carriers compete against larger ones and distinguish themselves from one another?