President Joe Biden Thursday took his longest step to-date in the ongoing crusade against COVID, announcing that the Department of Labor will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing […]
Hurricanes surprise very few people. In most cases, landfall (timeframe and location) and severity are known hours – if not days – in advance, but they consistently create logistical logjams for inbound and outbound freight. “Because freight flows in a pretty consistent and general direction, when you have these natural disasters it disrupts the freight […]
Many surprising things have happened in the last 19 months, but the number of people currently sitting on the labor pool sidelines is one I would have never seen coming. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the labor participation rate is sitting at near record levels – near record for how low it is. […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has effectively shut down Massachusetts-licensed truck driver William Edward Dearth Jr., after he crashed his truck and later failed three breathalyzer tests. On Aug. 25, Dearth was operating his tractor-trailer on Vermont Route 108 in Lamoille County when his truck left the highway and hit a telephone pole. Dearth […]
The heated debate over vaccine mandates has spilled over into the trucking industry with some shippers and major players now requiring drivers to be vaccinated, with Tyson Foods chiefly among them. On Friday, Tyson’s president and CEO Donnie King wrote that in response to the new and more dangerous strains of COVID in circulation, the company would […]
apollo ELD by assured Techmatics was posted on Transport Canada’s website as a certified ELD on Sept. 1, bringing the total to four ELDs listed on the country’s ELD registry. apollo received its certification on Aug. 27 through the accredited body Commercial Driver Technology Inc., becoming the first U.S. ELD provider compliant with the Canadian mandate, […]
Fastport recently announced the 10 finalists for the Transition Trucking: Driving for Excellence award, which is dedicated to finding America’s top military veterans starting their careers as rookie truck driver. For the sixth consecutive year, Kenworth teamed with the Fastport Trucking Track Mentoring Program and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring our Heroes Program to […]
President Joe Biden today blamed a sharp slow down in hiring for August on COVID and unvaccinated Americans as trucking pulled away with positive job growth. The Labor Department’s jobs report this morning showed that only 235,000 nonfarm new hires entered the workforce last month, a 60% drop from the monthly average of 586,000 job gains […]
Weigh station bypass service Drivewyze this week demonstrated automated electronic roadside inspections and how they can save time and money, while also improving highway safety. The demonstration took place at the CVSA conference in Wilmington, Delaware, in front of convention attendees that included state law enforcement and fleets from throughout the country. Trucks and drivers, […]
