Generous unemployment benefits, stricter qualifications and fear of technology are just three reasons the pool of qualified truck drivers is smaller than it’s ever been
Generous unemployment benefits, stricter qualifications and fear of technology are just three reasons the pool of qualified truck drivers is smaller than it’s ever been
Many in the transportation industry know Donald Broughton for his quarterly tracking of trucking bankruptcies. The 28 years of data he has collected show a very predictable formula: bankruptcies increase whenever fuel prices go up.
A long-standing dispute between truck transmission makers over anticompetitive practices has been settled, with the major players agreeing it’s time to move on. ZF Meritor LLC, a joint venture between a Meritor Inc. subsidiary and ZF Friedrichshafen AG
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program – and the confusion surrounding it – once again is getting some attention from Congress. A bill, introduced last week, seeks to protect shippers and brokers from negligent liability claims
Hours-of-service changes and an increase in trucking company bankruptcies have exacerbated the trucker shortage, according to a recent report. Significant capacity issues exist, while freight shipments rose 13 percent during the first five months
If you went into a lab and boiled down everything Mack trucks has learned and experienced over the past 114 years to its purest essence – everything battlefield Macks have fought on
An appeals court June 16 ruled that drivers working for Georgia-based carrier Affinity Logistics — but working in California — were not independent contractors, as the fleet argued, but were employees, due to the control the carrier had over its drivers’ work.
A 14th Mexican carrier has received authority through the U.S. cross-border trucking pilot program, while the first company admitted to the program is investigated for possible violations.
New Century Transportation (No. 99 in the CCJ Top 250) has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a federal bankruptcy court in New Jersey.