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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.

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.

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.

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.