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This afternoon's headlines: Microphonics, Tractech enter distribution agreement; CRST selects QUALCOMM's OmniTRACS system; and Intrenet, Inc. hires new chief operating officer.

In the news this morning: 'Smarter' crooks getting away with highway robbery; Truck crash survivor says he wasn't worried; and Hurricane Floyd expected to halt trucks, trains on East Coast.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it will not meet its self-imposed deadline to have new recordkeeping forms in place by January.

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold public hearings Sept. 13 to 15 in Chicago to analyze the March crash involving an Amtrak passenger train and a steel-laden tractor-trailer that occurred in Bourbonnais, Ill.

A railroad signal expert testified on Tuesday that warning lights probably were flashing before a steel-loaded truck tried to cross the tracks and was struck by an Amtrak train in an accident that killed 11 passengers.

Reckless truckers who tempt fate at railroad crossings by trying to beat oncoming trains stand to lose their commercial driver licenses, and their employers could lose thousands of dollars, under new regulations.

Every decision a trucking executive makes — from who is sitting behind the wheel of a rig to the kind of equipment purchased — can have an impact on safety.

Freight movements slowly returned to normal after the conclusion of a weeklong strike by owner-operators at two port terminals in Baltimore.

With a few strokes of a pen, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber last week wiped out the oldest and most costly weight-distance tax in the nation. But the tax's backers are still fighting.

Sen. Max Baucus took Labor Day literally. Instead of spending the start of the holiday weekend chomping hot dogs at a political barbecue, the Democrat from Montana jumped behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer and pulled freight down Interstate 90.