ORANGE, Texas—Across the 12 fuel lanes at the Flying J Travel Center off Interstate 10—where rigs carrying soft drinks, steel, Mexican produce and Mississippi-bound car parts rumble to a stop—the economics of trucking have broken down. Diesel prices have been climbing most of the year, recently hitting a record national average retail price of $6.53 a gallon, up nearly $3 from the average a year ago. President Trump floated an export ban on diesel, but on Friday that threat seemed to fade after G-7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks.

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