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Trucking companies should consider altering the ways they levy and maintain fuel surcharges or risk additional red ink from diesel and gasoline costs this year, industry consultants and analysts advise.

Trucking and oil industry experts are trying to forge a compromise with legislators, regulators and environmentalists in several northeastern states that are moving to limit the sulfur content in home heating oil.

The U.S. average retail diesel price rose another 5.4 cents a gallon last week to $3.069, raising concern among fleet executives and analysts alike that the steady rise could dampen economic growth. 

A key Pennsylvania legislator has suggested the state toll a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 as part of a broader plan to fill a large transportation funding gap.

TUCSON, Ariz. — An official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told anxious freight brokers here the agency’s new safety ratings system would not significantly alter their business landscape.

Housing starts rose in March, while building permits increased to the highest level in almost a year and a half, the Commerce Department said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence held fell this month to its lowest level in five months, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.