Isuzu on Thursday announced a partnership with Cummins on the development of a medium-duty battery electric prototype truck for North America. This truck would be the first zero-emissions solution from the Isuzu Cummins Powertrain Partnership (ICPP) formed in May 2019. Under the terms of the agreement, Cummins will integrate the its PowerDrive6000 into Isuzu’s F-Series truck and […]
Schneider National (CCJ Top 250, No. 8) announced last week it is closing its operations in Canada and relocating its equipment there to the U.S. The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based fleet is closing its facility in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. In a statement, the company said its Canadian operations “do not fit within Schneider’s long-term strategic focus.” The […]
Ben Schill has been named Chief Executive Officer of Paper Transport, a Wisconsin-based for-hire truckload carrier and provider of brokerage services. Schill succeeds Jeff Shefchik, who has served the company as president for 15 years and will continue to serve on Paper Transport’s board of directors and transition into an advisory role. Schill has served as Paper […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in a Federal Register notice published Jan. 14, officially announced the establishment of its Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program that will allow 18-20-year-old CDL holders to cross state lines after extensive training. The program has been in the works since September 2020, when FMCSA first published a request for comments regarding […]
A new study from the Trucking Alliance and the University of Central Arkansas uses hair drug testing results from Trucking Alliance member carriers to suggest that drivers actually use cocaine more than marijuana, and that hair testing would essentially double the number of drivers disqualified for drug use. The report, spearheaded by Trucking Alliance Managing Director Lane Kidd, looks at […]
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 Thursday that it will not allow the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to be enforced. Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen dissented in the Jan. 13 opinion. The ETS required workers at companies with 100 or more employees to […]
EHS Trucking Enterprises has been acquired by RoadOne IntermodaLogistics. Located in Brownstown, Michigan, EHS is a full-service trucking company serving the Great Lakes Region with a fleet of 170 tractors, 200 drivers and independent contractors as well as 700 trailers. Founded in 1998, EHS provides dedicated point-to-point regional truckload & less-than-truckload services from manufacturers/suppliers to automotive-related assembly plants […]
Jackson, Tennessee-based Milan Supply Chain Solutions (CCJ Top 250, No. 145) and its subsidiary J&B Services, based in Pontotoc, Mississippi, have been acquired and will merge to form a new dry van truckload carrier, Ascend. Milan acquired J&B Services in 2018. The new Atlanta-based now-consolidated carrier will focus on the regional middle-mile market in retail, consumer goods, packaging and industrial […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hold a special session today to hear oral arguments regarding President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers with 100 or more employees. The mandate, requires coronavirus vaccines or mandatory weekly testing for the unvaccinated, has faced multiple legal challenges since it was announced in October. Opinions in the lower […]
