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Today's technology headlines: Survey finds few executives moving toward Internet-enabled supply chains; technology helping keep tabs on port traffic; new venture looks to trade truck availability like a commodity; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Federal panel releases report on Illinois CDL scandal; Summit gets injunction against picketing Teamsters; Traffic.com expands into New York City, San Francisco and Dallas/Fort Worth; and more.

All new diesel trucks sold in California and 13 other states may soon be required to meet tough smog standards for 2005 and 2006, state officials said.

Diesel fuel prices jumped 2.4 cents per gallon last week, reversing four weeks of decline.

People with large incomes usually do not want to settle for small packages. They want big screen televisions, elaborate home office systems, complicated exercise machines and sprawling furniture.

Many truck drivers with insulin-dependent diabetes could safely operate commercial vehicles in interstate commerce, according to a panel of physicians who are experts in the treatment of condition.

Freightliner Corp. has introduced its new, conventional Class 8 truck, Coronado, in hopes of attracting a bigger share of the owner-operator market.

Thirty-three fewer people died in accidents involving large trucks in 1999 than in 1998, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, news the trucking industry hailed as a testament to its safety efforts.

Investment analysts say labor relations issues with the Teamsters union were a significant factor in the FedEx deal to buy American Freightways and operate it with Viking Freight as a nationwide less-than-truckload carrier.

John N. Raudabaugh is more agitated than usual.