Trucking labor

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.

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.<

Toll Global Forwarding dismissed on Monday Teamsters union charges that the logistics company pays its employee drivers in Southern California below market rates and is trying to delay the u

The Teamsters union, as part of its national strategy to organize harbor truck drivers, has taken on Toll Global Forwarding, charging that the company is using national labor law to delay a vote among

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey&rsquo;s new executive director said the agency will use its leases as a lever to end &ldquo;deliberate discrimination&rdquo; in hiring on the bistate port

The harbor trucking industry is clashing with the Teamsters union over a bill before the Washington state legislature that would classify owner-operators as employees rather than as independent contra

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After complaining about lengthy turn times at marine terminals for more than two years, motor carriers in Los Angeles-Long Beach say they expect to do something about the problem in 2012.

Many factors may push truck pricing higher this year, but new restrictions on truck driver work hours won&rsquo;t be among them.

Starting Feb. 27, 2012:

YRC is going back to the Teamsters as the trucking company tries to match a financial restructuring with an overhaul of its operations that includes a tighter network and more efficient freight handli

Teamster pipeline workers are heading back to the job after the union and the Pipe Line Contractors Association struck a deal extending an expired contract.

You see them more these days than a year ago, the smiling people. Odds are they work in trucking.

Stronger than expected job gains in transportation and manufacturing helped reduce the U.S.

The Teamsters union is preparing to strike companies represented by the Pipe Line Contractors Association in a dispute over retirement plans.

The American Trucking Associations said Thursday it is considering legal action against tougher new truck

If a truckload carrier has 100 drivers and a 90 percent annual turnover rate, does that mean only 10 of those drivers are still with the company at the end of the year? Not necessarily.

Pay is a major factor in driver turnover, but not the only one. Detention at shipper docks was cited several times in an online discussion of driver detention on the LinkedIn social media Web site.

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The driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers rose to 89 percent in the third quarter, as trucking companies struggled to hire and retain experienced drivers.

Technology provider ModusLink Global Solutions named Tom Nightingale, most recently chief marketing officer at Con-way, president for sales and marketing.

When UPS executives sit down to negotiate a new five-year contract with the Teamsters union next year, they&rsquo;ll face a very familiar negotiating team.

Trucking employment rose 2.7 percent in November from a year ago but was almost flat from October, rising only 0.3 percent despite high demand for truck drivers, according to federal statistics.

Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union&rsquo;s general election.

With ballots still being counted, James P. Hoffa opened a broad lead over opponents Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope Wednesday in the Teamsters union elections.

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren&rsquo;t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

What&rsquo;s keeping trucking executives awake at night as 2012 approaches? If it&rsquo;s not the threat of a double-dip recession, it&rsquo;s drivers, drivers and drivers.

Want job security? Look for work as a driver recruiter at a truckload carrier.

The building blocks of driver retention seem deceptively simple: pay, working conditions, communications and training. But drivers can be lost in the details.

A few years ago, shippers might have considered driver retention a carrier problem.

Shippers need to do more to help trucking companies reduce rising driver turnover rates and help keep transportation costs in line, a transportation consultant says.

Employment in for-hire trucking rose only two tenths of a percent in September from August, as the U.S.

An election that could determine the course of the Teamsters union and the tenor of its relations with employers begins Thursday as ballots are mailed to Teamsters.

The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.

Truck drivers are leaving large truckload carriers for other employers at a faster pace, but smaller competitors are keeping more drivers, a survey shows.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing New Prime, one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers, for discrimination against women truck drivers.