Trucking labor

Motor carriers doing business with the Defense Department through owner-operators must pass on any fuel surcharges under an interim rule that took effect July 29.

A top Teamsters union official stressed that all employees of YRC Worldwide will share “equal sacrifice” if proposed wage and benefit cuts are approved this week.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners executive committee unanimously approved a resolution urging Congress to amend federal transportation legislation to give ports regulatory control over harbor t

YRC Worldwide, the country’s largest less-than-truckload carrier, lost $309 million in the quarter ending June 30 as shippers apparently abandoned the troubled company in large numbers, sending

The Federal Maritime Commission is ending its investigation of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program, saying developments since it launched the probe last September have significantly dimini

More than 30 shipper organizations sent a letter to Rep.

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.

After running into roadblocks in court, interest groups that support organized labor want to use the surface transportation reauthorization as well as clean-trucks plans at Cal

YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO apologized not once but twice to Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa and union employees.

Government agencies will follow similar procedures no matter who breaks transport security rules.

The largest Teamsters pension fund dropped YRC Worldwide, the largest unionized trucking company, as its Teamster employees prepare to vote on whether to accept a 15 percent wage cut and a suspension

Financiallytroubled YRC Worldwide could see results of a critical vote by its Teamsters drivers on dramatic changes to the labor contract by the first week of August.

Anne S. Ferro's nomination to be head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is in the hands of the Senate, moving her closer to a confirmation hearing.

A major conservative interest group asked FedEx for a $2 million to $3 million donation in exchange for the group’s backing in a legislative battle with UPS, according to a published report Friday.

The Teamsters union would gain a seat on YRC Worldwide's board of directors and other concessions from the company in return for a 15 percent overall wage cut and a temporary waiver on pension payment

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Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its union workers, YRC Worldwide went back to the bargaining table.

Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its unionized workers, YRC Worldwide is back at the bargaining table.

YRC Worldwide finalized an agreement with its largest pension fund to defer pension contributions as the trucking company scrambles to raise cash to avoid bankruptcy.

The Federal Maritime Commission is moving to dismiss its challenge to the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program, in effect telling the U.S.

The Teamsters union hopes to use a successful organizing effort at a Penske Logistics site in Southern California as a springboard toward larger efforts to bring logistics industry workers into the un

Two months after YRC Worldwide received approval from its lenders to use real estate as collateral for union pension deferrals, the Teamsters union formed a committee to consider whether changes are n

Economic recovery will occur when consumer spending turns around, unemployment bottoms out and the business inventory-to-sales ratio improves, but that will take awhile, according to the chief economi

FTR Associates is forecasting the economy will stabilize in the third quarter, followed by a moderate recovery in 2010 with GDP growth estimated to rise 2.7 percent, data the firm says suggests the wo

Two of the nation’s largest trucking organizations are at odds over legislation establishing a national database for commercial driver drug and alcohol test results.

Consumer confidence improved two months in a row and in May rose to its highest level in eight months, according to researchers at the Conference Board.

The Virginia Department of Transportation scaled back its plan to close a group of rest stops in one of the heaviest truck routes in the country in a move the American Trucking Associations says will

The American Trucking Associations has challenged the April 28 decision by the U.S.

Trucking industry leader YRC Worldwide’s Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said the company will seek $1 billion in federal bailout funds to ease pressure from its pension obligations.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

The U.S. trucking industry shed more than 16,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said, as part of a 38,000 job loss in the transportation and warehousing sector.

Port Metro Vancouver said it will remain open for business whether or not some local container truck drivers go on strike next week.

YRC Worldwide and its lenders finalized a credit agreement April 20 that allows the financially troubled trucking giant to defer pension payments from August until Jan.1 and use the company's rea

London -- French fishermen lifted their two day blockade of three northern French ports early today, April 16, freeing several hundred stranded trucks in Britain and France to board freight ferries.

London -- Trucking between the UK and France risks total shutdown starting April 16 as French fishermen threatened to extend their blockade of ports to the cross channel tunnel.

YRC Worldwide is looking to defer millions of dollars worth of payments into Teamster union pension funds to help prop up the company’s cash reserves as it struggles to improve its finances in t

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have each been collecting more than $200,000 a day in clean-trucks fees since Feb.18.

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Lawyers representing the American Trucking Associations and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on April 27 will present oral arguments in the ports’ clean-truck case.

Cummins Turbo Technologies will consolidate its turbocharger operations in Charleston, S.C., from two facilities to one over the next 18 months.