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A man was killed Monday when his fuel truck was struck by train traveling along a Port of Houston track running between the Shell chemical plant and oil refinery here.

This afternoon's headlines: Roadway Express expands Web site; BHP Transport chooses Baan; and Expert says most traffic signals are Y2K ready.

In the news this morning: Trucking crackdown urged on Canada's Highway 401; TIP intermodal unit buys 11,473 trailers; and Navistar boosts production in Brazil.

United Auto Workers vice president Jack Laskowski, who headed national contract talks with DaimlerChrysler AG, has died, the union said Monday.

Preston Trucking Co.’s abrupt closinghas raised questions about the timing of the decision and whether former parent Yellow Corp. might end up having to pay its Teamsters’ pension bill.

Fighting against economic re-regulation and for approval of the sale of Conrail, railroads far outspent trucking on lobbying in 1998, according to a new report.

A van carrying farm workers slammed into a tractor-trailer rig on a remote farming road early today, killing 13 people in the van and seriously injuring two others.

The man accused of killing three people at two Alabama companies was angry because he thought a coworker was getting better trucking routes, a friend of one of the victims said.

This afternoon's headlines: Mexican tequila manufacturers find ways to avoid cargo heft; Truck drivers want access to I-80; and Truck traffic from Canada on the rise in North Dakota.

A threatening phone call drove dockworker David Jones to take medical leave from his job at a Yellow Freight System terminal after winning a sexual harrasment suit against the company.