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The national average price of diesel fuel held steady at $2.116 a gallon, remaining nearly 10 cents below the all-time record high price set in October, the Department of Energy said Monday.

The largest U.S. pipeline operator, Colonial Pipeline, said it plans to ban diesel fuel with lubricity additives from its system, which would require the oil industry to spend millions of dollars to equip their terminals to add the chemicals. Others are likely to follow.

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The Commerce Department said Wednesday that orders for durable goods dropped 0.4% in October, the second decline in three months..

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he federal hours-of-service rules for drivers should never have been changed except for the 34-hour restart provision of the new rules.

The Transportation Security Administration announced it was delaying until May 31 its requirement for states to conduct fingerprint-based background checks for drivers renewing or transferring their hazardous-materials endorsements.

Preventing commercial-driver-license fraud is among the top issues the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration must deal with, said a recent report outlining the major challenges facing the Department of Transportation in the coming year.