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Two-and-a-half years ago, Dawn Capalbo’s 55-year-old husband and business partner, Sam, died suddenly of a heart attack, forcing her to take over an airfreight trucking business she knew little about.

In the news this morning: Big Three automakers to make "joint e-business" announcement; Texas to tighten truck tailpipe emissions standards; Eaton to provide medium-truck transmission parts to DaimlerChrysler in Brazil; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Bell & Howell joins Big 3 automakers in online parts exchange; Swift settles federal wage bias lawsuit; Corning to expand fiber optic plant, boost production; and more.

Today's technology headlines: Kintetsu World Express joins Capstan's logistics network; Web retailers sticking to parcel company deadlines for holiday deliveries; FCC trying to stretch dwindling supply of telephone numbers; and more.

Mexico won an important victory in its bid to force the U.S. to open its roads to Mexican truckers under the North American Free Trade Agreement when an arbitration panel issued a preliminary decision in Mexico’s favor.

A federal judge has ruled that vehicle leasing arrangements between Ledar Transport, a Missouri-based truckload carrier, and some of its drivers violated federal truth-in-leasing regulations.

Shipping freight by air is both expensive and indispensable. These two facts illustrate why the airfreight industry is simultaneously expanding and contracting.

A new federal law enables state and local governments to go after trucking operations and drivers who illegally boost the power of their citizen band radios. President Clinton signed the legislation Nov. 22.

FedEx Corp. Chairman Frederick W. Smith is a persistent suitor. It took him more than two years of courting the Garrison family to convince them to sell him American Freightways, the company they founded in 1982.

The Society of Automotive Engineers is hoping that discussions of vehicle safety and more general business transportation issues will broaden interest in the engineering association’s annual meeting here this week.