Biden executive order will make it easier to lead by example on electric vehicles, DOT chief says.
Congressman Sam Graves proposes using the Postal Service to test a new bridge and highway funding effort.
DeJoy testifies that the Postal Service must focus on increasing its 35% share of the package market currently dominated by private carriers.
Seventeen Democratic House members introduced a bill to assure the Postal Service electrifies its delivery fleet. It could get Workhorse back in the game.
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Workhorse expects a “prolonged process” in trying to wrest mail truck business from the U.S. Postal Service that contracted with defense contractor Oshkosh.
Workhorse Group is not taking the loss of a contract to make battery-electric mail trucks for the U.S. Postal Service lying down.
United Airlines on Friday became the second airline to pay millions of dollars in penalties for a scheme to defraud the U.S. Postal Service for international mail delivery.
Postal Service chief defends his strategy to shift mail from planes to trucks despite the resulting longer delivery times.
Borrowing pegged to inflated stock price may become a problem for Workhorse Group in the aftermath of missing out on the U.S. Postal Service contract.
Workhorse Group shares tanked after the U.S. Postal Service awarded a 10-year contract to Oshkosh Truck Corp. to modernize the aging mail delivery fleet.
The second issue of FreightWaves Truck Talk looks at the past, present and future of WorkHorse Group.
Trailers being used as storage at Amazon facility adding to the problem, according to OIG.
Domestic and international delivery rates rise 5.9%; the rate on returns shipments rises 4.9%.
Workhorse Group shares plummet as Postal Service delays delivery truck contract to early 2021. Separately, a potential short seller claims the electric delivery truck maker is worth just 20% of its valuation.
On-time scheduling called out for allegedly resulting in trailer trucks dispatched empty.
The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t move the mail by itself. It relies on many transportation and logistics contractors. Cargo Forceis expanding operations to assist with express mail that is transported from airport-to-airport by another contractor – FedEx.
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The U.S. Postal Service said it has restored access to its online tracking system after an outage hit customers on Sunday.
The U.S. Postal Service’s online tracking system went offline on Sunday. It came two days after USPS announced an organizational overhaul
Three suspects are charged with murder after the deadly shooting of an off-duty Mississippi state trooper who was moonlighting as a truck driver for USPS.
DeJoy affirms plenty of capacity for handling presidential election mail-in ballots.
USPS chief DeJoy says agency is in “financially unsustainable position absent significant fundamental change.”
Trump opposed CARES Act loan in May unless agency raised rates it charged Amazon
$1.5 trillion infrastructure bill passes U.S. House along party lines; includes truck insurance hike.
Etailers and online marketplaces are facing higher postal rates to import packages to the U.S. Find out what businesses can do.
It got $10 million that Clyburn maintains is for smaller firms
“Substantial” federal funding needed to maintain service, board chairman warns.
Selection from private sector feeds speculation of potential privatization of federal agency.
Amazon one of the companies covered under departing FedEx executives’ non-compete clauses.
The U.S. Postal Service has been turning in losses every year, and a White House task force has asked the USPS to look at franchising the mailbox to prop up the declining margins.
Also today: going to jail for bogus CDLs; ecommerce driving the Canada Post labor dispute.
It will literally take an act of Congress to right the sinking USPS ship. Even heavy attrition and solid growth in packages and shipping can’t stop the losses.
