Peterbilt parent Paccar Inc. agreed to pay $150,000 to a worker fired after he complained about COVID safety in a Texas plant.
A new proposed independent contractor rule from the Department of Labor could increase costs for trucking as well as for Uber and Lyft.
FreightWaves Classics profiles Elaine Chao, former secretary of the U.S. departments of Labor and Transportation.
FreightWaves Classics profiles the use of Chinese labor to help build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Pete Buttigieg pushed back during a DOT budget hearing in the Senate against an effort to blame the Biden administration for rising inflation.
A Wisconsin trucking company reveals how it has shifted into a higher training gear under President Biden’s 90-day trucker apprenticeship challenge.
Regulators are moving ahead with an apprenticeship program for under-21 drivers despite attempts by trucking and safety groups to modify it.
The Biden administration praised strides made to boost trucking jobs — but could a freight recession undercut progress?
The U.S. Department of Transportation is ramping up studies analyzing truck driver pay and unpaid detention time.
The Biden administration is taking a series of actions aimed at bolstering the truck driver workforce that includes assessing compensation.
