The U.S. retail diesel average jumped 3.7 cents to $2.165, the Department of Energy said April 18.

U.S. retail sales of Class 8 trucks dipped by 2.9% in March from a year earlier to 20,034, WardsAuto.com reported.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Small fleets are being courted to opt into fuel discount programs after being overlooked when the focus was on medium or large fleets exclusively, said Chris Courts, director of sales and marketing at TransConnect Services, a value-added reseller of fuel cards to small fleets.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Acting Secretary of the Army Patrick Murphy praised the men and women leaving the service as candidates for positions in trucking at an industry event sponsored by Shell Oil.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Efforts to put the trucking industry on the front lines to combat human trafficking are succeeding, but more involvement is needed, Kylla Lanier, deputy director and co-founder of Truckers Against Trafficking, told Transport Topics.

Trillium CNG, the compressed natural gas company for Love’s Travel Stops, was selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to design, build, operate and maintain 29 CNG facilities in the state — calling it a record-setting public-private partnership.

The U.S. average retail diesel price inched up less than half a cent for its sixth consecutive weekly gain.

The U.S. retail diesel average rose for a fifth consecutive week, but the pace slowed.