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The average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States rose 10 cents per gallon to $2.012, the first time the national average has risen above $2, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The price of crude oil in New York exceeded a record $50 a barrel on Tuesday as Nigerian rebels threatened oil output and U.S. Gulf of Mexico supplies remained almost a third below normal, Bloomberg reported.

HANOVER, Germany — Demand for new heavy-duty trucks in North America has grown to 300,000 units for this year, but supply shortages and production constraints will limit sales by truck makers to no more than 250,000, according to Rainer Schmueckle, chief executive officer of Freightliner LLC.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ANOVER, Germany - At the world’s biggest truck show — the International Motor Show for Commercial Vehicles, held every other year at the massive fairgrounds of this city — 1,361 vendors from 39 countries displayed their wares in 11 exhibition halls, utilizing 2.4 million square feet of floor space.

Consumer Confidence Index Falls in September • FedEx Shareholders Approve Increase in Shares for Stock Options • Bush Asks Congress for More Aid as Florida Recovers From Jeanne • FKI Logistex Wins Contract From Postal Service • And more...

HANOVER, Germany — Freightliner LLC has begun a program to voluntarily upgrade 30,000 of the earliest engines that its Detroit Diesel Corp. subsidiary produced beginning with the 2003 model year to comply with new emissions rules in the United States.

Hurricane Jeanne, the fourth storm to hit Florida in six weeks, shut down much of the state and was blamed for at least six deaths, news services reported..

Xata Begins Offering Temperature-Monitoring System • Louisiana Court Shields Off-Road Diesel From Local Tax • DST Names Chung President

The national average retail price for regular gasoline on Friday was $1.91 per gallon, up 5.32 cents during the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide.

New 91ÊÓƵ Sales Rise 9.4% in August • Delays Increasing at L.A., Long Beach Ports • Stonepath Group to Restate Earnings