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The national average for retail diesel fuel prices fell for the fourth straight week, reaching $1.059 a gallon on June 7, down from $1.065 the week before.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier’s bankruptcy closure, filed a lawsuit against the company’s management to recover lost wages, vacation pay and other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

Trucking industry veteran Paul James has purchased Hiner Transport of Huntington, Ind., from company founders 91ÊÓƵr and Marge Hiner for an undisclosed amount.

It takes a lot to shake up Wall Street analysts, especially at the end of a long day of talk about the state of the nation’s railroads. American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr. managed to jar participants at a June 3 rail conference out of their late afternoon malaise with his call for railroads to consider allowing trucking access to their tracks — that is, let trucking companies run trains.

There were ominous sounds coming out of railroad circles in the East last week, as Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp. went about digesting the routes and equipment that formerly comprised Conrail — for which they paid some $10.2 billion. Depending on which morning newspaper you read, things were either going okay (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press) or things were in danger of falling apart (Washington Post).

Ryder System named Gregory T. Swienton, a former executive of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, to be president and chief operating officer of the Miami-based transportation management company.

Undercover police in Miami stopped an alleged truck hijacking by killing a suspect and arresting two men believed to be his accomplices.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier's bankruptcy closure, have sued the company's management to recover lost wages other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.