Trucking

The Postal Service OIG seeks an additional $17 million to respond to future service challenges.

Pay is rising under the two-year deal but union officials stress the formalization of procedures as the big win.

The successor of UPS’ struggling LTL operation is set to post an operating ratio below 95%, TFI International says in an unusual preannouncement.

At its fast charging stations, EVgo provides several options for light-, medium- and heavy-duty electric commercial fleets.

Bulk carrier Trimac Transportation has acquired Southern California cement carrier Double Eagle Transportation.

As it navigates COVID-era supply chain challenges, The Home Depot focuses on treating carriers with the same respect as its own employees.

The impact on the city’s large East African community of a proposed ban on overnight truck parking has arisen as a big factor in slowing the proposal.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered several hundred grams of methamphetamine hidden inside peanuts at an express consignment hub in Memphis, Tennessee.

Faster, safer, better — these consumer expectations for e-commerce delivery are driving a speed-focused freight market.

Freight expenditures surged at the fastest rate on record during June, according to data provided by Cass Information Systems.

More than 158 unsecured creditors, including trucking, logistics and towing companies, are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after New Jersey freight forwarder Advectus Transportation Services abruptly ceased operations and filed Chapter 7.

Volvo implements terms of UAW-rejected third tentative agreement and encourages workers to return while the union urges them to hang tough.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: 6,550 manufacturing jobs headed for Mexico as border freight capacity tightens; Aeronet Worldwide expands in Texas; FedEx Ground leases distribution center in Houston; and Bullfrog Logistics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

This week: Pilot gifts throwback Peterbilt to driver with sterling record of safe driving, AIT Worldwide Logistics stays committed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and J.B. Hunt gives additional $5 million to Arkansas Children’s health care initiatives.

Striking Volvo workers voted down a third tentative agreement, prompting the exasperated truck manufacturer to “consider all options.”

In this AskWaves, we look at the potential for a driver wage boost if a critical exemption in federal labor law were lifted.

Amazon accounts for its carbon intensity, emissions, renewable energy and decarbonization strategies and provides updates on The Climate Pledge in the 2020 sustainability report.

Critics of the move say truck drivers are already overworked and allowing more time behind the wheel ‘fails to address the underlying issues.’

Trucking owner Carl Bradley Johansson is facing federal charges in an alleged PPP loan fraud scheme. He is also awaiting trial in a separate federal case for allegedly ordering welders to illegally repair an oil tanker that resulted in a fatal explosion in 2014.

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