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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil prices continued their downward trend Tuesday, falling 23 cents to $63.11 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, more than $7 below the record $70.85 reached Aug. 30, the day after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he average price of U.S. retail diesel fuel dropped 5.1 cents to $2.847 a gallon from its all-time record a week earlier of $2.898, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he American Transportation Research Institute and the University of Minnesota have jointly issued a report highlighting the role of trucking in national security and how security technologies can be incorporated into the trucking industry.

Norfolk Southern Corp. said Tuesday it has completed repairs to its Lake Pontchartrain Bridge, restoring rail freight service into New Orleans and reopening important interchange points with western rail carriers.

Work began Monday to repair the hurricane-damaged Twin Span Bridge that carries Interstate 10 traffic between New Orleans and Slidell, La., the U.S. Department of Transportation said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. anufacturers are gearing up to supply everything from construction materials to home appliances in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ew Orleans’ port is on track to reopen well ahead of schedule and is already taking in some cargo, and city’s airport reopened to cargo traffic on Sunday, news services reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. klahoma voters will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a 5-cent increase in the price of gasoline and an 8-cent rise for diesel, and supporters and opponents say the measure faces an uphill battle in the wake of record high fuel prices following Hurricane Katrina, the Associated Press reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and inundated the freight network around New Orleans, the region’s transport system started its slow recovery, although several key links remained severed.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. etail regular self-serve gasoline prices rose to a record $3.01 a gallon over the two-week period ended Friday, but prices could be on the way down, according to the latest Lundberg survey released Sunday.