A combination of low-sulfur fuel and a diesel particulate filter is effective in reducing particulate matter in emissions by as much as 95%, according to a joint government-private study.

Frustrated truckers in the Northeast parked their rigs, organized protests at two state capitals and halted activity at one of the nation’s busiest seaports as the price of diesel fuel continued to soar.

Parts of the eastern United States were hammered again by escalating diesel fuel prices, led by a 15.3-cent surge in the Central Atlantic region and 13-cent increase in New England in the course of a week.

Volvo Trucks North America will lay off more than 400 employees at its Dublin,Va., plant in mid-February, bringing the total layoffs at the facility to 800 and dropping employment at the plant to about 2,400 workers.

Railroad management and labor unions have agreed on changes they want to make in the Railroad Retirement Act, and now they want Congress to enact them.

Amtrak beat its business plan by more than $2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2000, the quasi-public corporation announced Jan. 23, thanks in part to its express shipment business.

Railroad management and labor unions have agreed on changes they want to make in the Railroad Retirement Act, and now they want Congress to enact them.

Parts of the eastern United States were hammered again by escalating diesel fuel prices, led by a 15.3-cent surge in the Central Atlantic region and 13-cent increase in New England this week.

With diesel costing more than $2 a gallon at the pump in some areas of the nation, truck operators and their trade organizations turned last week to Washington to do something — anything — to stem the alarming tide of rising fuel prices.

The atmosphere among Class 8 truck producers remains cautious, but no further major production cutbacks are planned aside from the two already announced.