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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.

Workers have ratified a five-year agreement with Anheuser-Busch, but Teamsters officials and company management are at odds over whether or not this means a contract is in place.

Fighting against economic re-regulation and for approval of the sale of Conrail, railroads far outspent trucking on lobbying in 1998, according to a new report.

A van carrying farm workers slammed into a tractor-trailer rig on a remote farming road early today, killing 13 people in the van and seriously injuring two others.

The man accused of killing three people at two Alabama companies was angry because he thought a coworker was getting better trucking routes, a friend of one of the victims said.

This afternoon's headlines: Mexican tequila manufacturers find ways to avoid cargo heft; Truck drivers want access to I-80; and Truck traffic from Canada on the rise in North Dakota.

A threatening phone call drove dockworker David Jones to take medical leave from his job at a Yellow Freight System terminal after winning a sexual harrasment suit against the company.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.I cannot believe that any sane person would not be aware that we are not only obligated to the Nafta agreement, but this country needs it. Fair trade is a necessity in order to get the standard of living equal and the poverty level raised throughout North America.

In the news this morning: Trucking crackdown urged on Canada's Highway 401; TIP intermodal unit buys 11,473 trailers; and Navistar boosts production in Brazil.