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The U.S. average pump price for diesel fuel fell 3.1 cents in the past week, to 142.0 cents per gallon as of Monday, the Energy Department reported.

Business Travel Hubs Gaining Wireless Networks; Cell Phone Makers Cautious on Growth; New Clean Air Web Site Unveiled; Like-for-Like Exchanges.

Diesel engine makers hope to enlist the help of truck manufacturers as they seek to postpone a requirement to produce cleaner engines by October 2002.

Caterpillar Inc., with a little help from the Environmental Protection Agency, could be holding a strong hand in the high stakes game of engine development.

Package delivery giant United Parcel Services agreed late Friday to buy the package and shipping service retail chain Mail Boxes Etc. in an all-cash deal.

With a powerful winter storm bearing down on the U.S. Northeast and mid-Atlantic region, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland took the unprecedented step of banning tractor-trailers from traveling on state highways.

Even as consumers were hitting the stores to stock up with groceries and other supplies in the face of a predicted monster snowstorm, the statewide ban on tractor-trailer moves by Connecticut’s governor has already caused stores to start running out of bread, a trucking industry official told Transport Topics.

Oregon Restricts Weight on I-5 Bridge at Canyonville; High Court Allows KKK to Adopt a Mile of I-55; Wal-Mart, Amazon.Com May Form Partnership; Mitsubishi to Lose Double; and more...

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President Bush last week submitted a transportation budget proposal that would fully fund the $32.3 billion authorized for highway and related spending in fiscal 2002.