NLRB proposes joint-employer rule to undo Trump-era rule The National Labor Relations Board has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would make it easier for workers to claim joint employment, reversing a February 2020 rule that made it more difficult for workers to make such a claim. The current rule states that employees could […]
Atlas Logistics, a subsidiary of Atlas World Group (CCJ Top 250, No. 63) has acquired Progressive Transportation, Inc. of Wausau, Wisconsin, a provider of over-the-road pad-wrap transportation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition of 50-truck Progressive Transportation accelerates the growth of padded-van solutions within Atlas Logistics’ service offerings and delivers additional capacity to our network […]
Les Holtkamp was working in sales for a large wholesale crop protection company and decided to purchase two trucks in 2013. He leased his two trucks and two drivers on with another company and worked nights and weekends to service and maintain the units. A year later he got his own operating authority and partnered […]
During the first five years of his marriage, Rob Hatchett and his wife attended an annual marriage retreat where they received assignments to have conversations about a given topic, like money. The same principle goes for driver pay, said Hatchett, president of Fleet Intel, a tool that helps carriers analyze and compare driver pay, benefits and […]
For at least the time being, California’s AB 5 independent contractor classification law is in effect for the trucking industry after Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California lifted on Monday the trucking industry’s injunction that had been in place since January 2020. According to a law alert […]
Til Friday Trucking, led by Michelle Hefner out of Maiden, North Carolina, puts all its chips on a simple bet, an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. The Small Fleet Champ semi-finalist operates five trucks with four drivers, only runs local, has operators home every night and weekend, and guarantees minimum daily pay to every […]
Appeals court upholds the latest changes to HOS rules The U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late last month rejected a challenge to the September 2020 changes in the federal hours-of-service rules for truck drivers. Three truck safety advocacy groups and the Teamsters Union had challenged two of the […]
PS Logistics (CCJ Top 250, No. 37), via its Loudon, Tennessee-based subsidiary Purdy Brothers Trucking, has acquired Phoenix Leasing of Tennessee, while also reaching an agreement with Phoenix sister company Colonial Freight Systems to contract with its drivers to continue to service to its southeastern cold-chain customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Acquired by PS Logistics in 2014, Purdy […]
Trucking conditions deteriorated further in June as fuel, financing costs and freight rates were negative factors. FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index (TCI) fell to -3.36 from -0.3 in May. Before May and June, the TCI had not been negative in consecutive months since April and May 2020. In addition to negative cost and pricing conditions in […]
