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It is a telling indication of how competitive trucking has become when you can still lose your shirt, even in a year with falling fuel prices and surging demand.

As midnight strikes on Aug. 22, some trucking companies may be unable to find equipment near and far because of a handicap in old global positioning satellite receivers.

This afternoon's headlines: Viking Freight announces fuel surcharge; FDX-USF competition eats up in Puerto Rico; and Qualcomm to test product aimed at LTL carriers.

In the news this morning: Report shows accident patterns differ for trucks; Minority favors more spending on Va. roads; and Lines may leave Vancouver due to strike.

Proposals to create a federal Motor Carrier Administration were introduced in both houses of Congress amid a flurry of legislation to improve truck and bus safety.

Officials from several northeastern states and eastern Canadian provinces are discussing a perennial economic obstacle: the lack of an efficient east-west transportation link.

A man was killed Monday when his fuel truck was struck by train traveling along a Port of Houston track running between the Shell chemical plant and oil refinery here.

This afternoon's headlines: Roadway Express expands Web site; BHP Transport chooses Baan; and Expert says most traffic signals are Y2K ready.

Striking owner-operators at the Port of Vancouver are standing fast in their demand to be paid an hourly wage, while frustrated Vancouver Port Authority officials withdrew from negotiations.