UPS Freight
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Equipment
Fight over truck size is a fight over profits
Protecting market share is part of the battle over longer trucks.
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Fuel
House T&I’s DeFazio: Raising the gas tax more likely in new Congress
Lots of ideas for federal funding of infrastructure at Capitol Hill hearing, but the “pay-for” question still looms.
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Less than Truckload
FedEx Freight to operate last-mile pilots in 5 markets during first half of FY 2019
Operations to vary depending on pilot markets.
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Less than Truckload
UPS Freight shippers took volume elsewhere as strike concerns loomed. Will they return?
UPS advised shippers to take LTL business elsewhere. They did.
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Less than Truckload
UPS Freight Teamsters ratify 5-year pact, nationwide strike averted
Rank-and-file at UPS Freight unit overwhelmingly ratify 5-year pact.
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Less than Truckload
Teamsters ready to walk from UPS Freight should second contract fail
The Teamsters union has said that proposed changes to a tentative contract from UPS Freight, UPS Inc.’s (NYSE:UPS) less-than-truckload unit,…
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Driver issues
Rank-and-file blowback expected as UPS, Teamster contract saga takes unusual turn
The UPS Freight 30-day period is coming to an end and rank-and-file angry with the ratification decision in the face…
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Driver issues
UPS saga continues: how many local agreements are considered ratified?
The master agreement was ratified with less than 50% of the vote. Now it appears some of the local deals…
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Driver issues
Confusion at Big Brown: contract rejected, but union says it’s ratified; UPS appears mystified
The rank-and-file rejected the agreement, but the union says it didn’t meet a minimum level to not accept a deal.…
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Legal issues
Federal judge rules against UPS Freight in ADA lawsuit
The judgement pertained to a company policy that resulted in drivers who must temporarily move into non-driving roles for medical…
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