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Matlack Systems of Wilmington, Del., announced the resignation of two of its top executives a day after the company reported a 15.7% drop in revenue and a significant loss on operations in its fiscal third quarter.

A disgruntled maintenance worker at a Watkins Motor Lines terminal shot and killed a supervisor and then took his own life.

Dock worker David Jones is on medical leave from his job at a Yellow Freight System terminal in Minnesota after being awarded more than $1.75 million in a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company.

Anthony D. Portanova is the new deputy commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles. He will oversee the agency’s Commercial Vehicle Safety, Dealers and Repairers and Auto Crime Investigative divisions.

Gov. George Ryan signed laws that force Chicago-area trucks to undergo annual emissions tests and give trucks greater leeway on portable scales.

USFreightways Corp. entered the truckload market a year ago with the purchase of Glen Moore Trucking of Carlisle, Pa. Now, USF Glen Moore has acquired Underwood Truck Line of Brazil, Ind.

Con-Way Transportation Services, the nation’s fourth-largest less-than-truckload carrier, announced a new base for its fuel surcharge formula Aug. 2, as the national average price for diesel rose again, to $1.146 a gallon.

The drive to create a separate federal agency specializing in the issues and interests of trucking moved into high gear last week, dramatically improving the chances that such a unit will be in operation before too much more time passes.

The government has an opportunity to seize the moment and advance safety even further by reforming the archaic hours-of-service rules in a science-based fashion. It will be sad, indeed, for the trucking industry, as well as for the motoring public, to end up with rules that advance the political interests of a few while jeopardizing the many.