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In the news this morning: State Cracks Down on Overweight Trucks; New Charges Filed in Driver's License Scandal; and Truck Thieves Get Large Haul of Tiny Candy.

Truck drivers and other transportation workers will find it harder to cheat on drug and alcohol tests if a new Department of Transportation proposal takes effect.

Increasing losses from cargo theft are leading insurers to raise rates and crack down on shippers and carriers that leave trailers unguarded in high-crime areas.

A steep, industrywide decline in orders for new trucks has spurred Volvo Trucks North America to lay off 400 of the 725 employees hired during 1999 at its recently expanded plant in Dublin, Va.

Rona Bruneau has logged hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel of a big rig, spent countless hours on the telephone as a dispatcher and slogged through the mind-numbing mounds of paperwork required of truckers and their companies.

Navistar International is looking to its corporate past to focus its identity with truck buyers, but its chairman predicts a future in which customers will see a “totally different” company.

SAN FRANCISCO — The head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance is putting the United States on notice: end unfair trade practices, such as restrictions on Canadian trucks hauling freight back to their home country, or the association will push Canada to strictly enforce its trade laws.

Federal regulations on foreign drivers are not in harmony, and it will take an act of Congress to let Canadian truck drivers to make domestic deliveries in the United States, according to an Immigration and Naturalization Service official.

Bankrupt Preston Trucking Co. is scheduled to sell off its real estate at a public auction in Baltimore on Dec. 17, either to a company that has made a bulk bid for all the parcels or to individual bidders.