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This afternoon's headlines: Planned New Orleans port hopes to create one big cargo terminal; Ontario police aim to cut down on cargo theft; and Volvo reports more N. America deliveries.

Ford Motor Co. and Oracle Corp. will attempt to set up a $300 billion online automotive supply chain, which they say would be the world’s largest business-to business electronic network.

Trucking executives took a new look at driver shortages and the roles of technology in trucking at the American Trucking Associations Human Resources Forum in Alexandria, Va.

In the news this morning: Insurance Crime Bureau taps FBI deputy chief; Ontario truckers join fight against cargo theft; and Federal probe of Ill. CDL scandal expands to Gov. Ryan's aides.

This afternoon's headlines: Australian smuggling suspect may stay jailed until trial; Study shows traffic is getting worse; and S.C. officials offer way to build new port without more trucks.

United Parcel Service ended more than 90 years of private ownership last week with a record breaking initial public stock offering, raising $5.47 billion.

A. Maurice Myers is trying for a corporate hat trick. Three years after joining Yellow Corp., Myers last week announced his immediate departure for the greener pastures of the trash-hauling industry.

A study conducted by a regional planning agency in California points the finger at diesel emissions for 71% of the cancer risk from air contaminants in the Los Angeles Basin.

Jevic Transportation is proving that it pays to be different. Just ask its new owner, Yellow Corp., which doled out $200 million for the family-run business in August.

Dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers assembled to discuss vexing labor relations issues and how best to adapt to the changes ahead of them as the century draws to a close at the 13th annual conference of the North American Trucking Industrial Relations Association.