Drivers & Workforce

Ryder System (NYSE: R) has acquired Efficiency Enterprises, a company with a business model similar to what Ryder does in its Fleet Management Systems (FMS) unit.  Ryder, in a prepared statement, described Efficiency Enterprises as “a regional provider of fleet management, maintenance, and leasing solutions for trucks, trailers, and material handling equipment.” Those services line […]

The Teamsters are claiming victory for a group of “W-2” drivers at an Amazon facility in Indiana who sought representation by the union.  But as with the entire Amazon-Teamsters relationship, it’s complicated. In its prepared statement announcing the “march” on the company to demand it bargain for a contract, the Teamsters said it had unionized […]

Federal and state authorities arrested more than 230 undocumented immigrants, including over 40 CDL holders, during a three-day operation spanning 15 states.

A two-day Arkansas trucking enforcement blitz resulted in 183 English-language proficiency violations, 44 criminal arrests and 74 immigration violations.

Every carrier with a safety technology program eventually learns the same lesson: the hardware is the easy part. Cameras can be mounted, collision mitigation can be specified on new tractors, and telematics can be switched on. What’s harder to install is the belief, among people who spend their working lives behind the wheel, that the […]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has removed more than 10,000 training providers from its registry since December 2025, officials said.

Four and a half years after a grassroots union was voted in by workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, the battles in court over Amazon’s pushback against the vote continues. At issue in the latest set of filings in the Fifth Circuit is a National Labor Relations Board decision from April […]

State and federal authorities from California to North Dakota reported hundreds of violations and out-of-service orders in recent CDL enforcement operations.

For most of the last two decades, trucking could read the politics of its workforce fights along a familiar line, with one party broadly friendly to the independent contractor model and the other broadly skeptical of it, but according to the policy and legal experts who briefed an American Trucking Associations committee at the group’s […]

This year’s study of the top issues facing trucking undertaken by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) had a number one concern that didn’t even crack the top 10 in the prior two years: fuel prices. That issue was number one in the responses submitted by drivers and number two for carriers, finishing in the […]

Louisiana staged accident mastermind Danny Keating got 32 months in jail.

ATRI named a new head to replace retiring Rebecca Brewster.

Federal funding will be used in a variety of states for more than 2,400 new parking spots.

The Sikh Coalition was one of the louder voices in opposition to FMCSA’s English language proposed rule.

A New Jersey CDL school is seeking reinstatement to the federal training registry, challenging an FMCSA emergency removal.

FMCSA is launching another comment period as it moves toward a pilot program on sleeper berth hours.

The Supreme Court has rejected a request for review by Garten Trucking on its dispute with a union.

New Jersey’s tough independent contractor law is in effect.

Commercial vehicle enforcement operations across the U.S. and Canada resulted in hundreds of trucks and drivers being sidelined for licensing, equipment, distracted-driving and other safety violations.

Truck transportation jobs in September were more than they were a year ago, a situation that hasn’t occurred in several years.