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Today's technology headlines: Outtask to offer wireless portal; Internet technology enhances vehicle-tracking capabilities; small fleet reaps benefits of integrated networking system; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Westport delivers natural gas-powered heavy trucks to private fleet; NTE reports solid growth during 2000; Volvo, Mitsubishi and Renault to jointly build midsize trucks; and more.

President-elect George W. Bush named Norman Y. Mineta, a former chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, to head the Department of Transportation.

Consolidated Freightways Corp., the largest trucking company that wasn’t a member of American Trucking Associations, rejoined the national trade organization last week.

Intrenet Inc. — one of the nation’s largest flatbed operators and No. 52 on the Transport Topics 100 list — is closing up shop and shutting down its four trucking carriers..

Fueled by soaring diesel prices, the rate of bankruptcies in trucking hit a record high of 1,320 in the third quarter of 2000 and is likely to remain high through June, according to an updated study from a major investment brokerage.

Running a trucking operation west of the Mississippi River requires different strategies than in the more densely populated East.

Clyde J. Hart Jr. said he would consider joining the Bush administration as the permanent head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration if asked.

New statistics from Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a Toronto researcher, reveal that the life expectancy for male truck drivers is 15 years less than for the rest of the male population of the United States.

American Trucking Associations intends to file a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking that trucking be exempted from the government’s new workplace safety rules.