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Trucking Dashboard 2012: First Quarter
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Motor Carriers Adapt to CSA
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Out on the road, where regulatory aspirations meet reality, the impact of the CSA initiative is easier to sense than describe.
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Truck brokers
Trucking labor
Truckload Carriers Braving Higher Costs By Raising Rates
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Truckers aren’t typically shy or coy, and truckload carrier executives at the NASSTRAC 2012 Logistics Conference weren’t afraid to let customers and potential customers know exactly what t
Truckload
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Trucking labor
Truckload Priority: Better Jobs, Higher Pay
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
What’s the biggest priority for truckload carriers this year? “Drivers, drivers, drivers,” said John Conley, president of the National Tank Truck Carriers.
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Two Accused of Port of NY-NJ Clean-Trucks Scam
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
A truck dealer and scrapper were indicted on charges of filing false insurance documents for participation in the Port of New York and New Jersey’s clean-trucks program and bribing an undercover
Drayage
Trucking labor
USMX’s Capo 'Cautiously Optimistic' on ILA Contract
Mark Szakonyi, Associate Editor |
United States Maritime Alliance Chairman and CEO James Capo said he is “very hopeful and even cautiously optimistic” that management and the International Longshoremen’s Association
Trucking labor
Maritime
Forwarding
Trucking Needs New Driver Strategy, Says U.S. Xpress' White
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Truckload carriers need a “fundamentally different” strategy to attract potential drivers, John White, president of U.S. Xpress, said in an interview last week.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking Executives Warn Shippers on Costs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking executives sounded a clear warning about rising costs Tuesday at the National Industrial Transportation League's Freight Policy Forum in Washington, D.C.<br /> <br />
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LTL
Trucking labor
Operations Return to Normal at Port Klang
Mike King, Special Correspondent |
Operations at Port Klang have now returned to normal following <a href="http://www.joc.com/labor/drayage-strike-continues-port-klang-malaysia" target="_blank"><u>strikes by truck drivers last week</u>
International ports
Drayage
Trucking labor
Drayage Strike Continues at Port Klang, Malaysia
Mike King, Special Correspondent |
A strike by truck drivers at Malaysia’s key gateway of Port Klang continued Thursday, preventing drayage movement of containers in and out of terminals operated by Westport and Northport stevedo
International ports
Drayage
Trucking labor
Number of Active For-Hire Truckers Up 7.5 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The number of active for-hire motor carriers in the U.S. rose 7.5 percent from February 2011 through this month, an increase of more than 11,500 trucking companies.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Longshore labor
Pay Gap Widens for Truck Drivers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The number of drivers employed handling big rigs in the U.S.
Trucking labor
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LTL
Truck Drivers Better Off Unemployed?
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Ask a trucking CEO why it’s so hard to hire drivers, and extended unemployment benefits will likely be the first thing past his lips.
Trucking labor
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Longshore labor
FMCSA Struggles to 'Brake' Unsafe Carriers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
When the end came for J&A Transportation, the only surprise was how long it took.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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LTL
Trucking labor
YRC Freight Streamlines Operations
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
YRC Freight streamlined its nationwide network last week, implementing changes to reduce freight handling and focus the $3.2 billion less-than-truckload carrier squarely on two- to five-day long-haul
LTL
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Trucking labor
Class 8 Heavy Truck Orders Decline
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Are trucking companies losing confidence in the recovery and slowing plans to upgrade or expand capacity?
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Trucking labor
Southern California Toll Group Drivers Join Teamsters Union
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Employee drivers who work for the Toll Group logistics company in Southern California won an historic election Wednesday to become one of the few harbor trucking fleets in the U.S.
Trucking labor
Drayage
Truckload Driver Turnover Rate Slows
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Large truckload carriers had a slightly easier time holding onto truck drivers in the fourth quarter, with rising tonnage likely translating into more miles and pay.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
YRC Freight Implements Network Changes
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
YRC Freight implemented two changes of operations over the April 7 weekend, reconfiguring its terminal network to speed freight and reduce handling.<br /> <br />
LTL
Trucking labor
Trucking Puts Brakes on Hiring
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The pace of hiring in trucking slowed in March, when for-hire carriers increased payroll 3.2 percent year-over-year but lost jobs compared with February, according to preliminary data released by the
Trucking labor
Truck Drivers on Payroll Rise 2.9 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The number of heavy truck or tractor-trailer drivers employed increased last year for the first time since 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking Flashes Warning Lights
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Are trucking companies losing confidence in the economic recovery and slowing plans to replenish or expand their freight capacity?<br /> <br />
Truckload
Trucking labor
Shipper Group Enters Trucker Hours-of-Service Battle
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Shipper association NASSTRAC joined the legal battle over truck driver hours-of-service rules, challenging a lawsuit seeking shorter daily hours for truckers.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Supreme Court Seeks Solicitor General's Opinion in Clean-Trucks Case
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
A challenge to the Port of Los Angeles concession requirements for motor carriers moved a step closer to the U.S.
Drayage
Trucking News
Rail News
Trucking labor
Driving Ambition
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
When Steve Russell buys a trucking company, it’s not because he wants trucks.
Truckload
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Trucking labor
Freight Demand Keeps Pressure on Truck Pricing, FTR Says
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Research firm FTR Associates sees tightening truck capacity and rising truck pricing ahead this year for North American shippers as freight demand outstrips GDP.<br /> <br />
Truckload
LTL
Trucking labor
Trucking Dashboard 2011
Dana L. Brundage, Managing Editor, Digital Media |
Click on an icon below for detailed information on average retail diesel prices, LTL yield, trucking volumes, trucking employment, and data regarding the shift to intermodal.<br /> <br />
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Trucking Dashboard 2011: Fourth Quarter
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
A surge in freight demand helped the for-hire U.S.
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Trucking Hiring Rose 3.7 Percent in February
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The trucking industry increased hiring 3.7 percent year-over-year in February, a slower pace than in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
EEOC Sues Celadon Trucking For Illegal Medical Exams
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Celadon Trucking for allegedly requiring prospective employees submit to illegal medical tests.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Atkinson's Changed World
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Joseph B. Atkinson knew trouble was coming when Schneider National leaped into the regional truckload business in 2008.
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Carriers Give Incentives to Drive
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The battle to recruit and, just as important, keep truck drivers is getting fiercer among truckload carriers as freight demand steadily increases.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Transport Industry Fights N.J. Employee-Driver Bills
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Industry groups including shippers and trucking companies are urging New Jersey legislators to reject union-backed bills that would require owner-operators hired by drayage and parcel companies to be
Port News
Trucking labor
Teamsters Ramp Up Organizing Efforts at Seattle Rally
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The Teamsters union Monday ramped up its organizing efforts among port drivers in Seattle with a rally for owner-operators in the harbor area, but the event reportedly had minimal impact on drayage se
Trucking labor
Maritime
Trucking News
Trucking, Rail Groups Call 'Truce' Over Big Trucks
William B. Cassidy |
The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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LTL
Trucking labor
YRC Freight Goes Long
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
YRC Worldwide is changing more than the name of its long-haul less-than-truckload subsidiary.
LTL
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Teamsters Refuse to Quit
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Harbor trucking executives across the U.S. celebrated an important victory last fall when the U.S.
Trucking labor
Trucking News
New Name, New Era?
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Deciding it is what it hauls, YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary YRC as YRC Freight. The name change is more than cosmetic.
LTL
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Port Drivers Step up Pressure in Seattle
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Some operations at the Port of Seattle are feeling the impact of a push by harbor truck drivers for changes in their pay and positions. <br /> <br />
Port News
Trucking labor
Transport Industry Helps Drive US Unemployment Down
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Transportation and warehousing were among the industries that contributed to the creation of 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February.<
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