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Picket line at Overnite grows tense with reports of violence in Ark.; CN rail boss calls for tax equity with trucks; and Proposed Nafta processing center on I-35 could be ready by late 2000.

This afternoon's headlines: Oshkosh Truck prices common stock offering; Whiskey truck hijacked near Miami Intl. Airport; and Trucker found guilty of manslaughter in fatal wreck.

United Parcel Service is being sued for $14 billion by some if its customers for insurance fraud, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

Employment attorney Thomas P. Krukowski, who represented the Teamsters union in the early 1970s, gave a gathering of trucking executives a glimpse of what the union's strategy should be.

A lawyer told dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers that the recent Supreme Court rulings on the Americans With Disabilities Act was a major win for trucking companies.

This afternoon's headlines: Planned New Orleans port hopes to create one big cargo terminal; Ontario police aim to cut down on cargo theft; and Volvo reports more N. America deliveries.

Ford Motor Co. and Oracle Corp. will attempt to set up a $300 billion online automotive supply chain, which they say would be the world’s largest business-to business electronic network.

Trucking executives took a new look at driver shortages and the roles of technology in trucking at the American Trucking Associations Human Resources Forum in Alexandria, Va.

In the news this morning: Insurance Crime Bureau taps FBI deputy chief; Ontario truckers join fight against cargo theft; and Federal probe of Ill. CDL scandal expands to Gov. Ryan's aides.

Twenty-four years after launching its crusade to democritize one of the nation’s most autocratic and corrupt unions, Teamsters for a Democratic Union still faces a hostile union administration.