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ELD mandate seen making US inventories ‘stickier’
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The upcoming electronic logging device mandate could affect more than truck capacity available to shippers.
Trucking labor
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
LTL
Truckers step up ELD protests as mandate looms
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Owner-operators and small carriers opposed to electronic logging are still hoping for a last-minute reprieve.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Infographic: The ELD Era Begins
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
<p>Shippers must acquaint themselves with the requirements of the regulation and its likely impact on US trucking capacity and supply chains.</p>
Trucking labor
Trucking News
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On eve of ELD era, US shippers brace for disruption
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Shippers need to prepare for the impact.
Trucking labor
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Ahead of ELD rule, false driver log violations rise
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The rising number of false log violations should be a red flag to shippers as the ELD mandate approaches.
Trucking labor
LTL
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Congressional bills seek to overhaul US port trucking
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Latest Teamsters organizing effort focuses on changing owner-operator model and federal pollution rules governing ports.
Trucking labor
Drayage
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
US driver shortage becomes top trucking concern
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
Concerns over the supply of truck drivers and the resulting increases in trucking rates will likely grow in the coming months.
Trucking labor
LTL
Drayage
Driver wages and benefits jump, pushing up trucking costs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Truck driver wages and benefits grew for the fourth straight year in 2016.
Trucking labor
LTL
Rail victory extends Teamsters’ container supply chain reach
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
Mexico, Canada prepare rules on trucker hours, ELDs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Mexico is preparing its first hours of service rules specifically for truck drivers, while Canada readies an electronic logging regulation of its own.
Trucking labor
LTL
‘Minimal impact’ expected from LA-LB trucker picket, ports say
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
“This system looks like sharecropping, just on wheels.”
Trucking labor
Drayage
Low unemployment complicates trucking's hiring plans
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Competition for potential truck drivers is heating up as the United States nears "full employment."
Trucking labor
LTL
XPO wins union elections at two of three facilities
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
XPO Logistics won victories over the Teamsters in elections at two facilities, but the union won a vote in New Jersey.
Trucking labor
LTL
US truck firms bump against hiring ceiling
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
For-hire trucking's employment numbers slipped slightly in January, the first monthly decline in January since 2010.
Trucking labor
LTL
US truck driver ranks expand, but not enough
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
US truck driver pay rising, in steps, as market improves
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Truck driver pay is beginning to rise as truckload freight demand picks up.
Trucking labor
US drug and alcohol test clearinghouse could limit truck driver force
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
A drug and alcohol testing clearinghouse could potentially further reduce the pool of available labor in an industry already battling a shortage of drivers.
Trucking labor
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Stronger US economy, spending spur trucking hiring
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
A stronger-than-expected third quarter for the US economy bolstered trucking employment, but trucking hiring is still knocking against a ceiling.
Trucking labor
LTL
Hoffa wins Teamsters election
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Hoffa won another five-year term as general president of the union this week, defeating rival Teamsters United leader Fred Zuckerman.
Trucking labor
Hoffa holds slim lead as Teamsters election winds down
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
Owner-operators sue LA-LB terminals alleging collusion with Teamsters
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
Lawsuit claims driver misclassification by KLLM Transport
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Suit on behalf of two drivers seeks federal class-action status.
Trucking labor
US trucking firms add jobs ahead of holiday season
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."
Trucking labor
LTL
US grants $1 million to train military veterans as truck drivers
JOC Staff |
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.
Trucking labor
Truckload
LTL
Teamsters union wins elections at two XPO facilities
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Teamsters' long-haul campaign to organize XPO Logistics, as well as FedEx Freight, unfolds terminal by terminal, court decision by court decision.
Trucking labor
LTL
Trucking sheds jobs amid weak US freight demand
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
After two months of job creation, trucking employment numbers dropped in September, another indication of slow freight demand and excess truckload capacity.
Trucking labor
LTL
In battling XPO, Teamsters broaden supply-chain organizing
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
US trucking companies divide over electronic logging devices
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
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.
Trucking labor
LTL
US trucking firms hiring workers at faster pace
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
US trucking companies kept their hiring engines firing in August.
Trucking labor
LTL
US truck driver turnover rate drops amid slack demand
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
With freight volumes and rates down, truckload drivers stuck closer to their employers, American Trucking Associations data show.
Trucking labor
LTL
US regulators propose pilot for under-21 truck drivers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to test whether some under 21-year-old truck drivers are as safe as their older counterparts.
Trucking labor
LTL
US trucker lawsuit could avert electronic logging device rule
JOC Team |
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.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Trucking resumes hiring, reversing five-month decline
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Does an uptick in trucking jobs indicate the trucking market is stabilizing?
Trucking labor
LTL
Has US truck driver employment peaked?
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Strong hiring may have led to a new peak in trucking's hiring cycle. Is it downhill from here?
Trucking labor
LTL
More female drayage drivers not enough to reverse driver shortage
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
The opening of the first bathroom solely for female truck drivers in one of the busiest terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey this month has highlighted the growing numbers of women drivers in drayage, which could prove vital to ameliorating the driver shortages plaguing the industry.
Drayage
Trucking labor
LA-LB drayage company arises after misclassification suits
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
In trucking, warehousing and, in fact, in a number of industries, worker misclassification is possibly the hottest topic today in labor relations.
Drayage
Trucking labor
North American ports
Amid weak demand, trucking hits hiring roadblock
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
As freight demand lags, trucking's payroll drops from post-recession peak.
Truckload
LTL
Trucking labor
US regulators to review how shippers delay truckers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
U.S. regulators are taking further steps toward a rulemaking on the detention of truck drivers by shippers and their customers.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Teamsters’ LA-Long Beach port driver organizing intensifies
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The Teamsters union is accelerating its efforts to organize harbor truck drivers in Southern California.
Trucking labor
Drayage
US rule expands oversight of shippers, transport providers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Far-reaching regulation will affect many smaller U.S. transport operators, shippers as well as large companies.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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