The national average retail price of diesel fuel rose 0.4 cent to $3.039 a gallon last week, the Department of Energy reported, and analysts were predicting additional increases as crude oil prices neared an un-precedented $90 a barrel.

Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter earnings jumped 27% to $532 million or $2 a share, from $420 million or $1.54 a year ago.

Eastern freight rail line CSX Corp.’s third-quarter earnings jumped 24% from a year earlier, the railroad said late Tuesday.

The California Trucking Association said it is advocating a “collaborative strategy” with Southern California port officials to develop an alternative plan for trucks to meet emission goals.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it will expand a program to provide lower-cost loans for the purchase of cleaner-burning trucks to drivers in the Norfolk, Va., area.

The Department of Defense should not have awarded its largest-ever third-party logistics contract to Menlo Worldwide Government Services because one of Menlo’s subcontractors plans to use a freight management technology that was untested “in a customer environment,” according to a formal protest filed by Ryder Integrated Logistics.