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Crude oil, gasoline and distillate inventories all rose last week, the Department of Energy reported Wednesday.

YRC Worldwide boosted its second-quarter earnings guidance Wednesday to a range of $1.53 to $1.58 per share, up from its previous guidance of $1.45 to $1.50.

Air and ocean freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal 2007 first-quarter profit fell to $16.6 million or 17 cents a share, from $17.8 million or 18 cents a year ago.

Retail diesel fuel prices this summer are expected to average $2.79 a gallon, 38 cents higher than last year, the Energy Department said.

When are they going to get competent people to run the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration? We have to be qualified to drive and be responsible for our businesses, or we aren’t working. Why aren’t the people making the rules under the same standards?

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said he does not think Congress will lift the federal 80,000-pound weight limit for trucks or change existing regulations concerning the use of triple trailers on the federal highway system.

The Transportation Department’s transportation services index for April rose 0.1% from March, though the index’s freight component fell, DOT said Tuesday.

American Trucking Associations said it will join with a sleep research firm to study the effects of last year’s change to the rule governing truck drivers’ use of sleeper berths.

The United States and Mexico are “very close” to completing an agreement to allow U.S. inspectors to examine Mexican fleet operations in Mexico, the last hurdle before opening the border to Mexican carriers, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said.

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