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Today's Technology Headlines: Cellphones Drowning Police Radio Signals; Can Companies Curb Costs and Keep Customers?; Online Collaboration Streamlines Transactions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Oil, in a variety of forms, dominated Monday’s press conferences at the Technology and Maintenance Council, as two major oil companies and two oil-related firms rolled out new products. Most of these products dealt, in one way or another, with extending the life of engine oil.

Class 6 emerged at the end of 2000 as the only category of commercial trucks to see sales going up, not down, and the major reason, according to the salesmen, is that the driver does not need a commercial license to operate one.

Production of new tractors and trailers continued through a March 1 federal deadline for a new safety feature, thanks to a stockpile of the electronic chips needed to activate an in-cab warning light to alert drivers of malfunctioning antilock braking systems on trailers.

Matlack Reported in Serious Financial Trouble; Covenant Warns on 1Q Earnings; Dutch Govt. to Whittle Stake in TNT; Delphi Buying Eaton's Switches for $300M; U.S. Retail Gasoline Price Drops; and more to come...

Today's Technology Headlines: Iridium Gains 13 Partners to Resell Its Phone Service; ABF Freight Gets E-Comm Innovator Award and Produce Industry Leading in E-Commerce

Trucking company USFreightways warned Friday that it was going to make significant cuts in jobs and spending, and said its first-quarter earnings would fall “substantially below” market estimates.

DaimlerChrysler's Freightliner unit, the No. 1 heavy-truck maker in North America, is reportedly about to begin an aggressive and costly program to move thousands of new and used heavy trucks piling up on dealers' lots.

U.S. Jobless Rate Steady, But Factory Jobs Fall; Oshkosh Buying Temco Assets; DaimlerChrysler Still Plans Trucks With Hyundai; and more ...

The Used Truck Association will create a “think tank” to address the used truck problem that, in the words of UTA President Steve “Bear” Nadolson, "is plaguing our industry."