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Rising demand triggered by fears of refinery production cuts and the cost of natural gas pushed the retail price of diesel fuel up by nearly two pennies a gallon last week, wiping out three weeks of decline.

The Bush administration has given the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration no signals as to what it expects in an hours-of-service regulation, but the agency is continuing its efforts to develop a final rule.

A newly formed group with ties to the trucking industry wants government and the trade community to work together to make West Coast seaports more efficient and technologically up-to-date.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fined Rush Trucking for failing to catch logbook violations by owner-operators, but the company did not falsify records, as FMCSA initially claimed in the agency’s statement to the media.

With the loss of two major postal shipping contracts and increasing competition in the heavyweight airfreight market, Emery Worldwide faces a critical test in the coming months to replace lost revenue and shore up lagging profits.

Three of the nation’s major package couriers behind United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. have instituted major changes of ownership, stock exchange listing and corporate organization.

The Surface Transportation Board issued its final ruling in a series of undercharge cases that had their roots in the economic deregulation of trucking in 1980 and once threatened to transfer $27 billion from the nation’s shippers into the estates of bankrupt motor carriers.

California agricultural haulers, farmers and food processors are up to their ears in broccoli these days.

New York’s fuel-use tax does not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution when it is imposed on the New York State Thruway, a state appellate court said, upholding a lower court ruling.