Trucking labor

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Chengdu, a city of 14 million people more than 1,000 miles from the ports of Shanghai or Shenzhen, is at the heart of China’s plan to shift manufacturing from the higher-cost east coast to its i

Rachel Katz arrived in Chengdu in the fall of 2010 with experience as a student and teacher in China and speaking Mandarin, but little knowledge of trucking.

Truckload carrier Celadon Trucking Services acquired some of the assets of Robinson Transport, a 200-truck motor carrier based in Columbus, Ohio.

Trucking hit a troubling milestone in the second quarter when the average annualized driver turnover rate at larger truckload carriers topped 100 percent for the first time in four years, according to

Trans-Pacific spot rates jumped 8.6 percent this week from last week as U.S. importers scrambled to find space on vessels bound for the West Coast as a precaution against a possible East Coast port strike by the International Longshoremen's Association.

Health care benefits and pensions as well as wages will top the agenda when the Teamsters union and UPS, the largest Teamsters employer, begin

How big is trucking’s driver shortage?

The annualized driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers shot past 100 percent in the second quarter, rising above that percentage figure for the first time in more than four years.

When it comes to trouble finding skilled employees, trucking isn’t alone.

The JOC For-HIre Trucking Employment Index inched up 0.1 percentage points in August as for-hire trucking companies slowed hiring sharply amid

Transportation and warehousing employment increased 1.9 percent year-over-year in August, the same rate as in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trucking kept pace and occasionally moved ahead of a slowing economy in the second quarter, with the largest publicly owned trucking companies improving their profitability despite freight volumes tha

ABF Freight System will again appeal a $750 million lawsuit against the Teamsters union and various YRC Worldwide subsidiaries, after a

Container trailer operators at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) called off their strike Wednesday evening, allowing the movement of ocean freight traffic between cargo terminals an

Derek Leathers is frustrated with those who don’t believe there’s a shortage of truck drivers in the U.S.

In trucking, employment has only made a half-hearted recovery.

Celadon Trucking is purchasing a portion of the assets of USA Dry Van of McAllen, Texas, reinforcing its driver pool and increasing its U.S.-Mexico business.

After a brief off-duty break, the long-running battle over truck driver hours-of-service regulations is back on the clock, with trucking groups, safety advocates and a truckload of allies firing openi

The Journal of Commerce Trucking Employment Index rose 0.3 percentage points in July as for-hire motor carriers and other U.S. employers increased hiring.

Transportation and warehousing employment increased 1.9 percent year-over-year in July, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged three rounds of labor concessions at YRC Worldwide by claiming the Teamsters union violated a national contract by offering wage concessions to YRC

Transport operator Arkansas Best delivered an $11.8 million net profit in the second quarter, recovering from <

Higher truckload rates, lower equipment costs and &ldquo;better freight&rdquo; boosted Celadon Group&rsquo;s profit 63.6 percent in the last quarter as revenue climbed 4 percent.

Struggling truckload carrier USA Truck suffered a second-quarter net loss of $3.5 million, as revenue dropped 6.8 percent year-over-year to $129.6 million.

The latest truck driver hours of service rule is not only arbitrary and capricious, but unwarranted, the American Trucking Associations said in a court filing.

A coalition of shippers, small trucking companies and brokers is suing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over "guidance" the agency provided in May on the use of CSA data.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is suing the federal government over a pre-employment screening program it claims hurts a trucker&rsquo;s ability to challenge alleged safety violati

A Teamsters-backed effort to have owner-operator truck drivers classified as employees instead of contractors has been dismissed by a federal judge in New Jersey.

Federal and state regulators reportedly are visiting drayage company offices and requesting voluminous amounts of documentation, seeking to demonstrate the companies are intentionally misclassifying d

Transportation and warehousing lost about 2,200 jobs in June, after a 36,000 job hiring spree in May,

The Journal of Commerce Trucking Employment Index edged up one-tenth of a percentage point in June as trucking hiring slowed to a crawl.

A second Wells Fargo analysis of the CSA program deepens doubts about the link between CSA BASIC scores and a trucker

Higher manufacturing output in the Midwest is translating to more trucking jobs.

For more than two years, shippers have braced for a hard crunch in truck capacity, a blow that seemed inevitable in 2010 as the economy began to recover.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by owner-operator truck drivers who claimed they were illegally misclassified as contractors instead of employees by one of the Port of New York and New Jersey&rsqu

A truck strike over working conditions in South Korea continued to paralyze import and export trade Thursday.

By acquiring Panther Expedited Services, a $215 million non-asset trucking and logistics operator, holding company Arkansas Best is reaching beyond its core less-than-truckload market to pursue what i

YRC Worldwide regional carrier Holland plans to hire 450 truck drivers to meet rising shipper demand for next-day less-than-truckload service.

An early start to negotiations with UPS will allow the Teamsters union to focus on discussions over job security, wages, health care and pensions in January, the union said.