Diesel Finally Went The Other Way
10/06/2026
Diesel fell 33 cents in two weeks after three weeks of records. The direction changed, and that has a short shelf life.
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Diesel fell 33 cents in two weeks after three weeks of records. The direction changed, and that has a short shelf life.
The fastest growing construction category in the country is up 29.6 percent, and it is almost entirely dirt and rock.
Texas added 17,400 construction jobs and grew 1.9 percent. The work is growing faster than the workforce.
Sizing, thickness, filter layer and the tonnage math for channel banks and slopes.
NOAA puts better than 90 percent odds on a very strong El Nino, which points at a wetter November through April.
The largest school bond in Texas history named its program manager, which means the procurement clock started.
Construction starts fell in every region of the country last month except the one Texas sits in.
How thick the base needs to be, why the truck lanes are different from the car stalls, and the tonnage math.
Trench quantities look like simple geometry until you are standing in front of a half-finished run and short forty tons. The math itself is
Two weeks ago we wrote that federal surface transportation authorization expired September 30 and told contractors to ask one question about every job in
In August we wrote that Texas had paused new data center grid interconnections, and we told contractors to treat an announced data center as
Diesel did not drift up this month. It jumped. The national on-highway average rose 36.8 cents in a single week to $5.967 a gallon,
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