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Word that diesel fuel costs fell again last week was a timely reminder of the mixed pressures facing the trucking industry as the economy tries to climb out of its more than year-long downturn.

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The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel rose for the first time in three weeks, edging up 0.4 cent to reach $1.144 per gallon, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.

Despite an 0.8% drop in December, sales of previously owned homes set a record in 2001, the National Association of Realtors said Friday.

President Bush said Friday that he will propose spending an additional $2.1 billion next year in the effort to secure the nation’s borders without slowing down the millions of people, trucks and railroad cars that cross them each day, the Associated Press reported.

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Louis P. Saia III says he is out to “change the way temperature-controlled less-than-truckload freight moves forever.”

Retail sales of heavy-duty trucks in the United States totaled 11,398 in December 2001, which was 23% less than the 14,794 recorded during the same month in 2000, according to information compiled by Wards Communications.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta told a Senate committee last week that a decision to revamp hours-of-service regulations for commercial truck drivers could be made in “four or five months.”

The replacement of National Guardsmen by Transportation Security Administration personnel is among the changes in the works as the first full week of mandated baggage screening gets underway at the nation’s 400-plus airports, news reports said Thursday.