Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. has begun the next phase of its multiyear transformation. A recent proposal seeks to consolidate and close terminals in the West.
Pacific Intermountain Express was one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers prior to trucking deregulation. FreightWaves Classics profiles the company’s history and demise.
Atlas Air pilots are peeved that an outside arbitrator jammed a new labor contract down their throat. Union says many are threatening to leave.
The U.S. trucking industry grew in the years following World War I. Nonetheless, the industry was still in its early days, and railroads were the primary method of transportation for goods from point of manufacture to point of sale. Early history This did not deter brothers Carroll and Galen Roush, who founded Roadway Express in […]
The Teamsters call it a strike, but it is more of a protest. Still, it did garner support from another union on Wednesday.
Strickland Transportation was an LTL carrier that did well for 40+ years. Read its story in this FreightWaves Haul of Fame article.
The Teamsters called it a strike even though no employed workers were believed to be on the picket line.
Consolidated Freightways was a leader in the trucking industry for decades, and also started Freightliner trucks. Read its interesting story in this FreightWaves Haul of Fame article.
It’s the third vote in just a few months to push the union out. But contracts at all 3 locations had not ever been finalized.
The NLRB action is a gathering of earlier Teamsters actions against Universal, now pulled together in one filing by the government agency.
