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Fuel Costs

How Much Are You Paying For Fuel Tax???

by Diligent Delivery Systems on August 12, 2011

  According to API.org, since April 2011 the nationwide average tax on gasoline rose to 48.9 cents with some states  as high as 68 cents.    API.org’s quarterly report on gasoline and diesel taxes is compiled from information taken from all 50 states and analyzed to show trends across the state, as well as nationwide averages. [...]

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Truck Tonnage Continues to Fall

by Diligent Delivery Systems on July 31, 2009

Transport Topics magazine recently reported that truck tonnage decreased 13.6% in June compared with a year ago. That decrease was even greater than May’s 11% decrease from the same month in 2008, and was the largest monthly decrease in the 2008-2009 year-over-year cycle.   An American Trucking Associations representative has stated that he anticipates more of [...]

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Fuel Prices Remain Volatile and Unpredictable

by Diligent on January 9, 2009

The U.S. Department of Energy reports the average retail price of diesel fuel remained relatively stable for a second week, following a recent rise of 2.3 cents, leaving diesel close to where it was when the year began. Meanwhile, the average gasoline price increased for the fourth consecutive week, rising 6.3 cents a gallon to [...]

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