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Two things make the trip from Anchorage to the oil and natural gas production site on Alaska’s North Slope memorable. One is the size and weight of the single-unit payloads — prefabricated buildings that weigh as much as 100 tons. The other is successfully completing the trip.

In the news this morning: PNV cutting 15% of its workforce; Oshkosh reports higher 4Q sales and earnings; Goodyear acknowledges tread separations on one of its tire models; and more.

Today's technology headlines: Landstar finds success with simple wireless interface; working towards a total, visible supply chain network; and time sensitivity fuels robust growth for global air-cargo alliances.

This afternoon's headlines: Rail intermodal traffic rises again; DaimlerChrysler reports lower sales, profits from its commercial vehicle division; Alcoa to lay off workers at Pa. truck-part plant; and more.

Diesel fuel prices jumped to the highest level on record last week as buyers continue to react to low inventories and political turmoil threatens to disrupt supplies of imported oil from the Middle East.

Under pressure from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Department of Transportation’s Research and Special Programs Administration will draft a proposal likely to alter tanker trailer design.

President Clinton has warned Congress that he intends to veto its new Labor Department appropriations bill because it contains a prohibition on developing new ergonomics rules for the nation’s industries.

Despite the explosion in trade between the United States and Canada — from $211 billion in 1993 to $364 billion in 1999, most of which is carried on trucks — the North American Free Trade Agreement is not working as well as it could, says the chief executive officer of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, Canada’s equivalent of American Trucking Associations.

Drayage truckers continued their protests over delays at the Port of Savannah last week.

Public access to crash data generated by voice or video recorders on trucks will be restricted if President Clinton signs the National Transportation Safety Board reauthorization bill.