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Oregon has asked the Federal Railroad Administration to place an open-ended moratorium on oil trains traveling through the state, because preliminary findings of an investigation into the June 3 derailment in Mosier suggest inspectors might not be able to detect the problem that likely caused the crash.

The U.S. retail diesel average fell 0.5 cent to $2.426, the Department of Energy reported.

The Justice Department has dismissed charges that FedEx illegally transported prescription drugs.

John Bel Edwards, who became Louisiana’s governor last November, is making infrastructure funding a priority.

In a brief filed with a federal appeals court, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration defended a legal challenge to the agency’s electronic logging device rule by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.

The Cass Freight Index that primarily measures truck shipments dropped 5.8% year-over-year last month, but it was 1.3% higher than April amid some sequential signs of modestly improving freight conditions.

CHICAGO — The managing partner of Great Lakes Basin Transportation was in familiar surroundings June 15 as he promoted his idea to build a freight railroad from the LaPorte area to southeast Wisconsin, circling Chicago to serve as a bypass around that congested city.

The Union Pacific oil train that derailed June 3 in Mosier, Oregon, rolled into the Port of Tacoma on June 19 with little notice, despite the intense scrutiny its wreck, spill and fire attracted to the expanding practice of shipping crude oil by rail through the Columbia River gorge and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Gasoline prices at U.S. pumps fell for the first time in four months, according to Lundberg Survey Inc.