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Officials in Manitoba are considering stringent enforcement tools for repeat drugged and drunken offenders that could include forfeiture of commercial or private vehicles.

This morning's headlines: FedEx gets extra AF Corp. shares; Iran wants OPEC to cut 1 million barrels of oil per day; and more.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers have reached tentative agreement on a new master contract covering about 12,600 employees at 12 tire and engineered products plants in the United States, Goodyear said.

The average U.S. diesel price fell again in the latest week, by 3 cents to 151.5 cents per gallon, the U.S. Energy Department reported. That is the fourth consecutive weekly decline and brings the average price of diesel at U.S. fueling stations to its lowest level since Aug. 21.

Today's Technology Headlines: Hong Kong terminal launches logistics-enhancing web site; VeriSign, Telcordia start test of data links to phones; Software firm Tradiant goes global with ship lines and Moving health information, supplies faster

This afternoon's headlines: Cars menace snow cleanup trucks in Chicago; FedEx fled Memphis weather early; truckload sector hit by third-quarter shakeout; and more.

Congress passed an omnibus appropriations bill last week that provides long-awaited funding for the Automated Commercial Environment system for the Customs Service, and the agency has already started searching for a contractor.

The California Air Resources Board saw its authority to regulate truck emissions challenged in the state courts, which returned mixed verdicts for the environmental regulatory agency in 2006.

Contract talks are progressing between the Teamsters and Overnite Transportation Co. and could be wrapped up by early in 2001, union officials said.