Trucking labor

Beneficial cargo owners who contract with XPO for drayage will closely watch a class-action misclassification lawsuit in Los Angeles seeking wages, damages, and a permanent injunction preventing XPO from classifying drivers as independent contractors.

Changing the hours-of-service rules could give US truckers more flexibility or mask shipper inefficiencies.

Expected and unexpected challenges have marked the start of the electronic logging device mandate era — magnifying shipper concerns about inadequate truck capacity and rising rates.

An unexpected diversion of freight to rails in the wake of last year's hurricanes will cost the trucking company.

In particular, the FMCSA will focus on accelerating tests of autonomous vehicle technologies, believing they have the potential to significantly reduce crashes.

The Teamsters said it hopes the vote will lay the groundwork for other victories in the union’s uphill, decade-long effort to organize US port drayage.

Even as demand for truck-transported cargo rises, truck companies are struggling to add drivers, due to competition from better-paying jobs in other sectors.

The upcoming electronic logging device mandate could affect more than truck capacity available to shippers.

Owner-operators and small carriers opposed to electronic logging are still hoping for a last-minute reprieve.

Shippers must acquaint themselves with the requirements of the regulation and its likely impact on US trucking capacity and supply chains.

Shippers need to prepare for the impact.

The rising number of false log violations should be a red flag to shippers as the ELD mandate approaches.

Latest Teamsters organizing effort focuses on changing owner-operator model and federal pollution rules governing ports.

Concerns over the supply of truck drivers and the resulting increases in trucking rates will likely grow in the coming months.

Truck driver wages and benefits grew for the fourth straight year in 2016.

The campaign to organize workers nationwide across different transportation modes will give the Teamsters more leverage and ultimately cost shippers more, a US labor expert told JOC.com.

Mexico is preparing its first hours of service rules specifically for truck drivers, while Canada readies an electronic logging regulation of its own.

“This system looks like sharecropping, just on wheels.”

Competition for potential truck drivers is heating up as the United States nears "full employment."

XPO Logistics won victories over the Teamsters in elections at two facilities, but the union won a vote in New Jersey.

For-hire trucking's employment numbers slipped slightly in January, the first monthly decline in January since 2010.

Trucking is increasingly bumping against a hiring ceiling. Low unemployment and job openings in competing industries mean fewer candidates are available to fill trucking jobs.

Truck driver pay is beginning to rise as truckload freight demand picks up.

A drug and alcohol testing clearinghouse could potentially further reduce the pool of available labor in an industry already battling a shortage of drivers.

A stronger-than-expected third quarter for the US economy bolstered trucking employment, but trucking hiring is still knocking against a ceiling.

Hoffa won another five-year term as general president of the union this week, defeating rival Teamsters United leader Fred Zuckerman.

With 51.5 percent of a still uncertified vote, James P. Hoffa looks likely to hold onto his job as general president of the Teamsters union.

More than two dozen owner-operator truck drivers are suing six container terminals or their affiliates in Los Angeles-Long Beach, charging that the terminals blocked their entry to the facilities to ensure peace with the Teamsters.

Suit on behalf of two drivers seeks federal class-action status.

Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."

US regulators are increasing funding for driver-training schools and institutions serving veterans while pushing a pilot program that would license under-21 ex-military drivers.

The Teamsters' long-haul campaign to organize XPO Logistics, as well as FedEx Freight, unfolds terminal by terminal, court decision by court decision.

After two months of job creation, trucking employment numbers dropped in September, another indication of slow freight demand and excess truckload capacity.

Truck drivers and warehouse workers at two XPO facilities are the latest to call for a union representation vote in a Teamster campaign that includes ports, warehouses, and truck terminals.

A Transplace survey of 2,000 carriers shows smaller fleets lagging their larger counterparts when it comes to adopting electronic logging, though about half the companies queried already had ELDs in place.

US trucking companies kept their hiring engines firing in August.

With freight volumes and rates down, truckload drivers stuck closer to their employers, American Trucking Associations data show.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to test whether some under 21-year-old truck drivers are as safe as their older counterparts.

The controversial mandate requiring electronic logging devices in U.S. trucks by the end of next year will reappear before a federal court next month, jeopardizing the fate of the rule itself, and the so-called “capacity crunch” it was expected to generate.

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