Higher fuel prices are likely to jack up transportation costs for US shippers this year by pushing up fuel surcharges. Steadily rising US diesel fuel prices already are pushing up surcharges added to freight rates, reversing a two-year trend that cut into the revenue and earnings of truckers and intermodal operators as fuel prices plummeted.
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