A full year after CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railroad began to dismember and divide Conrail, both companies are still battered and bruised in recovering from a debacle that damaged their reputations, their customer relations and their bottom lines.

The American biodiesel industry, responding to a report that a Belgian study found biodiesel detrimental to the environment, said its soy-based product does not contain harmful ingredients.

The price of diesel fuel fell one-tenth of a cent this week, while analysts continued to warn that inventories are at alarmingly low levels.

Trailer shipments during the first three months of 2000 have pulled even with the same period in 1999 after running behind for the first two months of the year.

Trailer shipments during the first three months of 2000 have pulled even with the same period in 1999 after running behind for the first two months of the year.

A full year after CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railroad began to dismember and divide Conrail, both companies are still battered and bruised in recovering from a debacle that damaged their reputations, their customer relations and their bottom lines.

The American biodiesel industry, responding to a report that a Belgian study found biodiesel detrimental to the environment, said its soy-based product does not contain harmful ingredients.

Three major trailer leasing companies are spending millions to put conspicuity tape on the trailers and containers used by their customers before a June 1, 2001, federal deadline.

The national average price of diesel fuel, as reported by the Energy Information Administration on May 22, rose 1.7 cents from the week before to $1.432, marking the second consecutive weekly increase, after two weeks of decline that saw the price drop to $1.402 on May 8.

Rail shipper groups are hailing a decision by the Surface Transportation Board that the Union Pacific Railroad overcharged FMC Corp. on some 2 million tons of chemical shipments over past three years.