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The national average price for diesel fuel rose 0.5 cent per gallon to $1.294, its third straight increase, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The Institute for Supply Management’s services index showed a lower rate of expansion in June, falling to 57.2 from 60.1 the previous month.

Building a central database of hazardous materials shipments would be more trouble than it would be worth, and could create new security concerns, according to a study Congress ordered.

Once viewed as opportunistic and sometimes unsavory middlemen operating with little more than a phone and fax, freight brokers have achieved a certain level of respectability in the minds of shippers and perhaps even grudging acceptance by many truckers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.It’s a safe bet that at least once a week newspapers around the country will carry stories about economic weakness. It is also safe to predict that as financial weakness continues, struggling businesses will be forced to seek bankruptcy protection.

Windsor Wants to Cut Truck Traffic • Bankruptcies Continue Despite Recovering Economy • New Jobless Claims at 15-Month Low, Labor Dept. Says • West Coast Cargo Flows During Contract Talks • And more...

Fewer Security Shutdowns Seen at Airports, USA Today Says • FBI Issues July 4th Alert • CF Asks Shippers to Take Role in Security • And more...

WASHINGTON — About 70 members of Congress signed a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman last week, seeking a one-year delay of EPA’s deadline for selling diesel engines with lower smog-causing emissions.

Leaders of American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association have come to terms on an affiliation agreement that allows each organization to keep separate memberships and dues while pursuing joint marketing and lobbying activities, ATA Chairman David G. McCorkle said last week.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor."These are the times that try men’s souls.” So wrote Thomas Paine at a point of crisis in American history when the country, not yet fully formed, was threatened by tyrannical forces housed among us and directed from bases across the sea. Paine published his famous words in the December following the 13 colonies’ Declaration of Independence.