During the past six months, the driver shortage has gone from an afterthought to a major constraint on capacity. Competition for experienced drivers is intense, and to compensate some motor carriers are directing recruiting efforts toward CDL students – even high schoolers. Paper Transport, Inc. (PTI), a truckload carrier headquartered in De Pere, Wisconsin, has refined its three-week driver […]
Old Dominion Freight Line (CCJ Top 250, No. 10) last week said it expects to hire 800 truck drivers over the next three months to accommodate business growth. The new job openings are in response to a strong economic recovery with robust freight demand, tighter capacity, and “Old Dominion’s continual investment in its workforce,” according to a […]
A bill making its way through the U.S. House would follow in the footsteps of California’s A.B. 5 law, passed in late 2019 and codifying a prior court decision, by severely curtailing the ability of leased owner-operators to haul freight for larger motor carriers. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021, in […]
So what led a four-time Emmy award winning journalist to go into trucking? In a word: Necessity. Grant Stinchfield, host of Stinchfield on conservative cable news outlet Newsmax, explained that he was reporting on jack-knifed trucks and other traffic issues during an ice storm on the High Five Interchange in Dallas “while the Super Bowl was in town” […]
The total number of payroll jobs in the for-hire trucking industry fell by 4,000 in February, according to preliminary data from the Department of Labor. That’s the first such month-to-month decline since last April’s massive jobs losses, when some 87,000 trucking jobs were lost in a single month in the worst of the economic downturn […]
Two former owners of a since-closed trucking company, Westfield Transport out of Massachusetts, have been indicted on charges of falsifying the fleet’s log records, instructing drivers to falsify their logs and lying to investigators in the wake of a fatal crash that killed seven in June 2019. The two men face up to 30 years in […]
People don’t quit jobs. They quit people. That oft-repeated phrase came to mind for WorkHound CEO Max Farrell in the wake of roughly 40,000 driver survey responses that his company reviewed from 2020. When it came to feedback on people that drivers regularly interact with, including dispatchers, planners, office staff and mechanics, positive and negative […]
The Truckload Carriers Association annual convention has been delayed again due to limitations on large gatherings in Las Vegas. Truckload 2021: Las Vegas will now be held Sept. 25-28, moving from April 17-20. The venue will remain at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort. The convention was originally scheduled for January before it was moved to […]
A petition challenging the hours of service regulations that took effect at the end of September 2020 is on hold after a court granted a request by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to hold the case in abeyance. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by the Advocates for Highway […]
