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Toll Denies Teamsters' Charge It Underpays Drivers
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
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
Port News
Trucking labor
Teamsters Press Unionization of Toll Drivers
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
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
Trucking labor
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NY-NJ Port Authority to Crack Down on 'Discrimination'
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said the agency will use its leases as a lever to end “deliberate discrimination” in hiring on the bistate port
Longshore labor
Maritime
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Trucking Industry, Teamsters Clash Over Owner-Operator Bill
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
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
Port News
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EGT, ILWU Reach Tentative Deal Over Grain Terminal
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Washington Gov.
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Redesign for YRC
William B. Cassidy |
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
LTL
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Turnaround in Turn Time
Bill Mongelluzzo |
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.<br />
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Punching the Clock
William B. Cassidy |
Many factors may push truck pricing higher this year, but new restrictions on truck driver work hours won’t be among them.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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Trucking labor
Final Hours Rule for Truckers
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<em>Starting Feb. 27, 2012:</em><br /> <ul>
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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LTL
Truck brokers
Trucking labor
Teamsters Call Off Pipeline Strike
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Trucking's Optimistic Turn
William B. Cassidy |
You see them more these days than a year ago, the smiling people. Odds are they work in trucking.
Trucking News
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Trucking labor
Transportation Hiring Cuts Into Jobless Rate
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Stronger than expected job gains in transportation and <a href="http://www.joc.com/economy/manufacturing-indices-rise-globally"><u>manufacturing</u></a> helped reduce the U.S.
Trucking labor
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Teamsters Launch Pipeline Strike
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Teamsters union is preparing to strike companies represented by the Pipe Line Contractors Association in a dispute over retirement plans.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Trucking Group Blasts New Driver Rule
JOC Staff |
The American Trucking Associations said Thursday it is considering legal action against <a href="http://www.joc.com/regulation/federal-regulators-issue-tougher-truck-driver-rules"><u>tougher new truck
LTL
Trucking labor
Turning Over In Their Seats
William B. Cassidy |
Need proof the economy is on the mend?
Truckload
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Calculating Driver Turnover
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Truckload
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Trucking labor
You Get What You Pay For
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Truckload Driver Turnover Rate Hits 89 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Truckload
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Trucking labor
Con-way’s Nightingale Moves to Software Provider
JOC Staff |
Technology provider ModusLink Global Solutions named Tom Nightingale, most recently chief marketing officer at Con-way, president for sales and marketing.<br /> <br />
Logistics Technology News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Hoffa's Next Five Years
William B. Cassidy |
When UPS executives sit down to negotiate a new five-year contract with the Teamsters union next year, they’ll face a very familiar negotiating team.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Trucking Jobs Jump 2.7 Percent in November
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Brokers Climb the Logistics Ladder
William B. Cassidy |
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
Truckload
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Trucking labor
Hoffa Re-elected Teamsters President
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
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Hoffa Builds Big Lead in Teamster Election
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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’s general election.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Hoffa Leading Gegare, Pope in Teamsters Vote
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Arrow Trucking Employees May Get Additional $2 Million
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Truckload
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Trucking labor
Slicing Into Management
William B. Cassidy |
A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.
LTL
Trucking News
Trucking labor
1 Driver + 1 Day = Intermodal
William B. Cassidy |
As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.
Intermodal providers
Trucking News
Rail News
Trucking labor
Drivers Dominate Trucking Worries
William B. Cassidy |
What’s keeping trucking executives awake at night as 2012 approaches? If it’s not the threat of a double-dip recession, it’s drivers, drivers and drivers.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking's Money pit
William B. Cassidy |
Want job security? Look for work as a driver recruiter at a truckload carrier. <br /> <br />
Truckload
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Planning Better Driver Retention
William B. Cassidy |
The building blocks of driver retention seem deceptively simple: pay, working conditions, communications and training. But drivers can be lost in the details.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Trucking labor
What Should Shippers Do?
William B. Cassidy |
A few years ago, shippers might have considered driver retention a carrier problem.
Truckload
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Rising Driver Turnover Rate Threatens Shippers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking Employment Up Slightly in September
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Employment in for-hire trucking rose only two tenths of a percent in September from August, as the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm"><u>U.S.
Trucking labor
Teamster General Election Begins
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Boehner, Cantor Attack Trucking HOS Rewrite
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Driver Turnover Hits 79 Percent at Large Carriers
William B. Cassidy |
Truck drivers are leaving large truckload carriers for other employers at a faster pace, but smaller competitors are keeping more drivers, a survey shows.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Feds Sue New Prime For Sexual Discrimination
William B. Cassidy |
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing New Prime, one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers, for discrimination against women truck drivers.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Going the Extra Mile
William B. Cassidy |
When is a mile less than 5,280 feet? When it’s part of a trucker’s paycheck.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Trucking News
Trucking labor
ABF Freight President Kemp to Retire
William B. Cassidy |
Wesley B. Kemp, the president and CEO of ABF Freight System, will retire Dec. 31 after more than 40 years with the less-than-truckload carrier, the company said Wednesday. <br /> <br />
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