As employees return to the office, scammers are upping their efforts to scam companies and hack systems.
The Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently ruled in favor of an employer that denied additional time off as an accommodation under ADA and FMLA rules.
High barriers are a deterrent to starting a less-than-truckload operation. Knight-Swift’s recent acquisition sheds some light on the value in owning assets in the space.
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) Scholarship Fund is providing financial awards to the largest number of students in its 48-year history for the 2021-22 academic school year.
Leased owner-operators and company drivers could be looking to strike gold on their own in a strong trucking market, Vise says.
Employers have been given a procedural ally in fights against EEOC charges – namely that the employee must adhere to a ADA exhaustion rules. However, employers still need to deal with and act appropriately when faced with accommodation requests under the ADA.
Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.
The number of drivers prohibited from driving due to drugs matches an estimated shortfall of drivers needed to keep up with freight demand.
Speeding remains a critical safety issue for trucking, and a new bill introduced in the U.S. House would seek to limit the speeds commercial trucks could travel at on the nation’s roadways.
The Truckload Carriers Association will hosts its annual Refrigerated Meeting on July 14-16, at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Due to popular demand, TCA and DriverReach will host a third cohort of Making Safety Happen — an exclusive TCA-member offering — which provides participants with expert-led instruction, peer-to-peer networking, a toolkit, and more. Join dozens of your peers who have enrolled in the offering. Don’t miss the opportunity to collaborate with your peers in […]
I heard a phrase the other day and I began to dig deeper into thought. The individual I was with talked about his wife’s shopping addiction when he said that she was a “want person and not a need person.” Some time ago I had actually done some quick research on the internet about compulsive […]
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently determined that an employer could use an employee’s prior salary as a factor in setting the employee’s starting salary and that doing so may be used as a defense to an Equal Pay Act (“EPA”) claim. Background The Employer used new hires’ prior […]
Congress is currently in the midst of the highway reauthorization process to enable the Department of Transportation to continue implementing programs that will ensure the safety of the nation’s highway network, among other things. The House’s version of this reauthorization bill, called the INVEST in America Act, would dedicate $547 billion over five years, the […]
Three key trade groups have filed amicus briefs to the latest legal effort by the California Trucking Association to keep the state’s AB5 independent contractor law from being implemented. The American Trucking Associations, the Western States Trucking Association and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association all have asked the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Transportation capacity diminished further in May, according to a supply chain survey. The capacity subindex of the Logistics Managers’ Index fell 50 basis points from April to 32.7%, “indicating continued downward pressure,” the Tuesday report read. The LMI is a diffusion index wherein a reading above 50% indicates expansion and a reading below 50% indicates […]
Although new guidance on mask wearing returns the industry to some semblance of normalcy after over a year of lockdowns and restrictions, employers should remain cautious in revising policies.
While Texans are accustomed to living life free of excessive state-level taxes, they were in for a shock when their own U.S. Senator, Republican John Cornyn, used his national platform to advocate for the establishment of a truck-only vehicle miles traveled tax.
Three-part workshop series to focus on effective leadership communication strategies to motivate and retain your essential workers.
The nation’s top trucking research group plans to update previous studies on the effects of legalized marijuana and other drugs on truck safety along with integrating 18- to 20-year-old drivers into the industry.
