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Gov. George Ryan signed laws that force Chicago-area trucks to undergo annual emissions tests and give trucks greater leeway on portable scales.

An Amtrak train en route to Chicago from the West Coast was delayed several hours Tuesday by a collision with a truck on Milwaukee's west side.

Integrating less-than-truckload, truckload, logistics and freight forwarding services into one company is incredibly difficult. But one company has done it successfully: USFreightways Corp.

Striking owner-operators at the Port of Vancouver are standing fast in their demand to be paid an hourly wage, while frustrated Vancouver Port Authority officials withdrew from negotiations.

Workers have ratified a five-year agreement with Anheuser-Busch, but Teamsters officials and company management are at odds over whether or not this means a contract is in place.

As midnight strikes on Aug. 22, some trucking companies may be unable to find equipment near and far because of a handicap in old global positioning satellite receivers.

This afternoon's headlines: Viking Freight announces fuel surcharge; FDX-USF competition eats up in Puerto Rico; and Qualcomm to test product aimed at LTL carriers.

In the news this morning: Report shows accident patterns differ for trucks; Minority favors more spending on Va. roads; and Lines may leave Vancouver due to strike.

Proposals to create a federal Motor Carrier Administration were introduced in both houses of Congress amid a flurry of legislation to improve truck and bus safety.

Officials from several northeastern states and eastern Canadian provinces are discussing a perennial economic obstacle: the lack of an efficient east-west transportation link.