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Experts say carriers that have not prepared their computer systems for the Y2K glitch had better be prepared to unravel an awful mess at the start of the new year.

Determined to prove that technology can prevent truck accidents, the federal government is plunking down $3.5 million to field-test the most promising safety gear on in-service trucks.

Teamsters union members will be voting today on a tentative agreement reached with Wawa Food Markets that would end their bitter 10-day strike in five states.

The State of Maryland may ask Giant Food truck drivers who took part in a strike three years ago to repay the state about $1.4 million in unemployment insurance benefits.

In the news this morning: Truck hits school bus on I-630 in Ark.; Quebec truckers protest injunctions; and Union County, N.J. officials target Port Newark trucks to protest land deal.

This Afternoon's Headlines: Package-Delivery Concerns' Restrictions Aim to Curtail Shipments f Handguns; Ploof Says Buyer for Truck Line in Works; and, NTSB Public Hearing to Examine the Effect of NAFTA on American Highway Safety.

In what some are calling the most significant development in federal trucking oversight in nearly 20 years, Congress is poised to establish a separate motor carrier safety agency.

The Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety will go out of business if President Clinton signs a transportation spending bill that received final approval from Congress Oct. 4.

The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed phase one of its plan to drastically curtail truck pollution within the next decade.

Truckers who feel as if they’re the ones who will end up paying for a $1 billion settlement between the nation’s six largest diesel engine makers and the Environmental Protection Agency are suing the engine producers.