Trucking labor

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

YRC Worldwide said it reached an agreement with key stakeholders on a comprehensive restructuring plan, meeting a Feb. 28 deadline.

The American Trucking Associations is raising the ante in its challenge to the science behind proposed new truck driver hours of service rules with a statement that studies linking length of sleep tim

There’s a new yardstick for capacity among the many figures the shipping world uses to measure available space: hours.

The critical feature of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal on hours-of-service isn’t necessarily the potential reduction from 11 to 10 hours.

Port authorities in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia are joining the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, giving the

Advocates of the unionization of harbor truck drivers opened a new line of attack with a bill in the California Legislature that would define drayage truck drivers as employees of the companies that a

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to truck safety as it tries to drive truck accident fatalities lower.

The heavy-haul and flatbed specialist is offering owner-operators a 1 percent pay increase to use smart phone technology to complete their driver logs.

Tom Adamski is a trucking executive with 34 drivers carrying 101 pieces of identification allowing them to shuttle containers in and out of terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., wants shippers to speed truck drivers through their gates or pay the consequences for excessive detention time during loading or unloading.

Proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules would raise transportatio

Schneider National would need to increase driver pay by about $3,000 per year "to keep commercial drivers whole from a W-2 perspective" if proposed changes in hours of service rules take effect, an ex

Truckers in Colombia will stop blocking roads in Bogota but will maintain their strike against a government plan to deregulate freight rates.

Congress is taking steps to complete legislation that gives operating authority to the Federal Aviation Administration, after 18 attempts to approve the last reauthorization, which expired in 2007.

The safety benefits of proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules have been "wildly overstated," the American Trucking Associations claims.

Truckers will have a last chance to make their case against proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules Thursday as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hosts an all-day listeni

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will take comments on its proposed truck driver hours of service rules until March 4 and hold what may be the last public "listening session" on its pro

President Obama's proposed budget would breathe new life into a cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, allocating $50.

Colombian truck drivers, on strike for more than two weeks, are blocking major roadways in the capital city of Bogota, causing a complete standstill during rush hour and forcing residents to walk to w

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

With three major truck safety initiatives under way, the Department of Transportation is pursuing an ambitious plan to reshape not only how it enforces compliance with its regulations but also how the

As Con-way Truckload shifts capacity to external customers, the Con-way Freight less-than-truckload business is finding more capacity in its fleet of 16,800 trailers.

The fragile state of the retail supply chain became clear to Wayne Spain in December as he went from store to store searching for a particular gift.

What’s most likely to keep trucking executives awake in the early hours of the morning this year? If you said higher fuel prices, stingy lenders or rising equipment costs, forget it.

Bill Logue will launch a new trucking company Jan. 31 — FedEx Freight. It will look much the same as the old FedEx Freight. Its rates won’t change.

YRC Worldwide will cut 80 jobs in Akron, Ohio, and is looking for a buyer for the former headquarters of Roadway Express there, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Truck safety regulators are focusing increasingly not on the truck but on the driver who operates it.

Trucking operators aren’t buying trucks to expand capacity; they’re buying trucking companies.

ABF Freight System is taking its legal challenge against concession agreements negotiated by YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

It may be months before truckers know how many hours they’ll be allowed to drive under new federal work rules, but they almost certainly will have less time to accomplish the work they now do an

A new U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking program could be in place within four to six months, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Monday.

Investment in transportation is a key part of rebuilding the U.S. economic foundation, and the U.S.

The number of trucking operations tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped 7.5 percent from 2007 through early 2010, a sign of significant consolidation among motor carriers over the course o

Trucking executives are still cautious about the state of the economy and the business outlook for 2011, but they’re much more optimistic than they were a year ago.

This will be a turbulent, eventful year for trucking, dominated by capacity issues, primarily on the truckload side. Fueling the turbulence will be a combination of economic and regulatory pressures.

The message to truck drivers is clear: Fasten that safety belt, put down the cell phone and stop texting.

Teamsters union General President James P. Hoffa said he is "deeply disappointed" in the Obama administration's plan to negotiate a new cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico.

The transportation and warehousing sector added 8,800 jobs in December, the Labor Department said, as part of a total 113,000 private industry jobs created last month.