The U.S. average retail price of diesel inched down 1.4 cents to $3.380 a gallon as crude oil prices slipped amid growing U.S. inventories of crude.
It was the first decline in the price of diesel since Aug. 20.
Trucking’s main fuel costs 58.3 cents a gallon more than it did a year ago, when the price was $2.797, the Department of Energy said Oct. 22.
The national average price for regular gasoline fell 3.8 cents to $2.841 a gallon, DOE’s Energy Information Administration said. The average is 36.2 cents higher than it was a year ago.