Diesel drops 0.3 cents this week

After steadily increasing all spring, diesel prices have been steady so far this summer—although they're holding are at the highest level of the year.

The average U.S. retail pump price for diesel slipped 0.3 cents in the July 4 report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), to $2.423 per gallon. The price has changed less than a penny over the past four weeks.

Regionally, only the Rocky Mountain area posted an increase, up seven-tenths of a cent to $2.436.

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ZF Services, TRW Aftermarket to combine

Q&A: Cleaning up trucking’s data garbage

Ensuring that data is “clean” is going to be critical to ensure that the “machine learning algorithms” now being increasingly used throughout the trucking industry to manage everything from fuel spend to vehicle lifecycle costs, argues Kurt Thearling, vice president of analytics for WEX Inc.

Fleet Owner recently got a chance to ask Thearling to extrapolate on that and other “machine learning” questions related to motor carrier operations.

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Fairbanks offers Talon series highway scales

Fairbanks Scales offers its Talon Series Highway Vehicle Scales with Intalogix technology.

“Boasting the longest-lasting construction of any steel deck scales in the industry, the Talon is offered in two capacities to meet unique application requirements,” the company said. “The Talon HV design is a durable and dependable design for most applications. For ‘extreme' volume weighing applications, the Talon HVX is designed to withstand these duty-cycles.”

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Landstar To Release Second Quarter Results On Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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