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Today's Technology Headlines: Agencies Warn of Radio Spectrum Shortage; Satellite Venture Seeks Land-Based Service; Device to Transmit Inventory Update; Ocean Carriers Create Online Communities; and Supply-Change Automation Requires Strategy

In separate reports that show a further decline in manufacturing activity for key Midwestern markets, factory purchasing managers in Chicago and Milwaukee said conditions worsened again in March for their members.

Exide Technologies said Friday that it is closing two vehicle battery manufacturing plants in North America and cutting jobs at two facilities in Europe as part of its ongoing restructuring.

Volvo, Scania Prepared to Cut Jobs; PG&E May Take $6.9 Billion Charge; Ford Cutting 830 Jobs at Truck Plant; Emery Says 99% of Profit Came From Mail Contract; and more...

Today's Technology Headlines: Wireless Web Grows Slowly; Fedex's Barcode System Helps Track Items; Suppliers Warming Up to Online Buying; Despite Job Cuts, Motorola's Wireless Devices Sell

MIAMI — The problem with used trucks is a simple one. Supply is greater than demand, and that is unlikely to change for at least two or three more years.

MIAMI — Despite a 50% drop in production of heavy-duty trucks during the past year, the chairman of Eaton Corp. said he is optimistic about an economic recovery and expansion of truck sales.

The number of serious workplace injuries and illnesses -- including those associated with repetitive motion -- decreased in 1999, but truck drivers once again had the most reported cases, the Labor Department reported.

As Mexico and the United States grapple with a rocky road ahead for the economy, the livelihoods of workers on both sides of the border are on the line.

Despite strong opposition from millions of working families, Congress turned a deaf ear and passed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.