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Retail diesel prices dropped by 4.2 cents a gallon to $4.085 last week — the second straight decline — after hitting the high point for this year, the Department of Energy reported.

Eight of nine publicly traded trucking fleets reporting quarterly earnings last week achieved improved results, relying on either higher rates or volume increases, or both.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Swift Transportation Inc. opposes the trucking industry’s lobbying efforts toward allowing heavier trucks on interstate highways in the United States, the company’s CEO told a gathering of Canadian trucking executives.

UPS Inc. posted a 6% increase in first-quarter net income, boosted by the performance of its U.S. package operations.

The 47-member House and Senate conference committee set up to produce a compromise transportation bill has scheduled its first meeting for May 8, but contentious issues have surfaced already that could delay or sink the effort.

Executives at three major truck stop chains said that they are installing diesel exhaust fluid pumps on fuel islands at all or most of their locations, which drop costs significantly for truckers, despite the current slow demand.

The National Labor Relations Board on April 20 certified the Teamsters union as the bargaining agent for port truckers who are employed by Toll Global Forwarding Holdings in Los Angeles.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is continuing to develop new tools to weed out bad drivers and motor carriers, the nation’s top trucking regulator told a group of law enforcement officials and inspectors meeting here.

Manufacturing is making a comeback in North America, a trend that industry experts say is being driven by a re-examination of the cost of producing and shipping goods from Asia to customers in the United States and Europe — and new supply-chain realities.