The Teamsters union has said that proposed changes to a tentative contract from UPS Freight, UPS Inc.’s (NYSE:UPS) less-than-truckload unit, fails to address the grievances raised by the rank-and-file, and that the union’s negotiating committee will call a nationwide strike sometime after Nov. 12 if workers reject the company’s offer.
A long list of concerns in the ATA President’s annual speech to his group’s conference, including young drivers and California’s own laws.
The Indian freight industry struggles with issues that most of the developing countries suffer with – like high fuel prices, inadequate infrastructure, lethargic governance, stifled technology adoption, and a general inefficiency in hauling equipment.
International Trucks has introduced a new spec package for its LT Series that it says will increase fuel efficiency by up to 8%.
Peterbilt Motor Company has added two additional ratings to its MX-13 engine family for the 2019 model year, both aimed at increasing uptime and improving fuel economy for truck owners.
Seeking to deliver cost-efficient solutions for fleets and take advantage of the new trend toward openness and convergence, SmartDrive Systems in collaboration with Geotab has introduced a new platform designed to lower costs and create a single point of connectivity.
Spireon has new financial backing and a market that still has a lot of trailers without GPS tracking.
On the agenda for the day: AOBRD transition, personal conveyance, sleeper berth rule and plenty of other issues for FMCSA’s top attorney.
Drayage to be test bed as OTR market remains out of EV reach.
Trucker Path’s acquihire to end 2017 saved FreightTech from a hangover that might have made funding for other trucking startups difficult
Martinez also said the process has begun to look at the overlapping rules regarding agriculture transportation, and he clearly doesn’t favor California’s separate rules on meal breaks.
Some of the stocks that were getting hammered at midday recovered on the back of the broader market rebound by the close. One exception: Ryder.
The new tool will allow machine learning to accept and interpret counteroffers from carriers, and decide if they’re too high or just right.
CH Robinson’s CEO sees a more balanced supply-demand scale next year.
There’s no particular pattern in seeing which stocks have declined significantly more than the drop in the overall S&P 500 index.
Greenbriar Equity invests an undisclosed amount in Spireon, becoming its primary investor in the process. Spireon believes this partnership would help it with operational flexibility and in expanding its network across different verticals in the transportation sector.
It was a better quarter for three companies representing different sectors: 3PL, intermodal and truckload.
Tennessee Tech has acknowledged that the results of its controversial glider kit study were “inaccurate.”
Daimler Trucks sold more vehicles in quarter three than a year ago, but its parent company, Daimler AG saw revenue flat for the third quarter at $45.8 billion (40.2 billion Euros).
A strong quarter all around, but as predicted, the quarter-to-quarter comparisons are showing signs of being weaker just because the trucking bull market is getting to be a year old.
