Oil Falls Below $79 a Barrel Following Inventory Report
Oil fell more than $1 to below $79 a barrel early Wednesday following a report that showed crude inventories improved last week, Bloomberg reported.
October 28, 2009Diesel Jumps 9.6¢ to $2.801; Gas Gains a Dime to $2.674
Diesel and gasoline both rose for a third straight week, with diesel jumping 9.6 cents to $2.801 a gallon, its highest level in almost a year, the Energy Department said.
October 27, 2009Gasoline Jumps 18¢ in Two Weeks, to $2.66 a Gallon
Regular gasoline jumped 18 cents in the past two weeks to a national average $2.66 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of fuel prices.
October 26, 2009Cap-and-Trade Will Raise Price of Diesel, ATA’s Windsor Says
WASHINGTON — The first vice chairwoman of American Trucking Associations joined a pair of Republican senators to decry the climate legislation being debated in Congress, saying it will amount to a huge tax increase on fuel.
October 26, 2009ATA, Long Beach Settle Port Suit
The Port of Long Beach and American Trucking Associations last week reached an out-of-court settlement of ATA’s federal lawsuit challenging portions of the port’s Clean Trucks Plan. The agreement will simplify the registration process for carriers moving containers at the port.
October 26, 2009Forward Air’s 3Q Income Declines
Forward Air Corp. said late Wednesday its third-quarter profit fell to $3.8 million, or 13 cents per share, from $12.1 million, or 42 cents, a year ago.
October 21, 2009ATA, Port of Long Beach Settle Lawsuit
Officials with the Port of Long Beach and American Trucking Associations reached an out-of-court settlement to ATA’s federal lawsuit Monday, announcing that the port’s concession requirement contained in the clean trucks plan will be replaced with a registration process.
October 20, 2009Diesel Jumps a Dime to $2.705
Diesel fuel’s national average price jumped 10.5 cents to $2.705 a gallon, its highest price since November, the Department of Energy said Monday.
October 20, 2009EPA Says Clean Diesel Efforts Are Working
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last week its clean diesel efforts have produced $500 million to $1.4 billion in public health benefits.
October 19, 2009Opinion: Intermodal Isn’t ‘Greener’ Than Trucks
You can’t watch television these days without hearing some railroad company advertising the “green” benefits of moving freight from the road to rail. The most often heard is the claim by one major railroad that “one ton of freight can be moved 436 miles on one gallon of fuel.”
October 19, 2009