Port Strike Could Cost Economy $2.5B Daily
Negotiations were scheduled to expire soon for a new contract agreement covering nearly 14,000 dockworkers at 30 ports stretching from San Diego, Calif., to Bellingham, Wash., and a new study claims the nation’s economy could take...
L.A. And Long Beach Port Strike Has Mayor’s Attention
Port Strike Update
Truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach agreed Saturday to a cooling-off period following five days of striking that briefly shut the massive ports.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti...
Heavy Vehicle User Tax 2290 May Not Weigh Heavy for Truckers If Prepared To...
The HVUT may not cost heavy as like the heavy motor vehicles if truckers and fleet-owners who need to pay tax form 2290 and file returns happen on time during this tax period for...
Truckload Turnover Over 90 Percent For 9th Straight Quarter
Turnover at large truckload carriers was up slightly to 92 percent in the first quarter, holding above 90 percent for the 9th straight quarter, American Trucking Associations reported today.
Over-the-road truckload turnover rates were largely unchanged from the fourth quarter,...
Peterbilt And Paccar Win Awards For Manufacturing Leadership
Peterbilt Motors Co. and its parent company, Paccar Inc., have received four Manufacturing Leadership Awards from Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council, taking top honors in the categories of workplace leadership and engineering and...
OOIDA Announces New Director Of Regulatory Affairs
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has announced that longtime trucker and owner-operator Scott Grenerth has joined OOIDA as Director of Regulatory Affairs.
Photo by: Nikohle Ellis
Scott Grenerth
Grenerth spent 13 years as a trucker based out...
L.A. And Long Beach Ports Begin Strike
Drivers in a long-running labor dispute with three trucking companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began what they said would be an indefinite strike Monday.
The impact on the movement of...
Hells Angels’ Trucking Companies Banking Big On Fuel
Outlaw bikies have used trucking companies to defraud the federal government of millions of dollars in fuel rebates, according to an Australian Taxation Office investigation.
But Tax Office insiders say federal law enforcement agencies have failed...
Carbon Express Pays Drivers More
We've reported on a few different companies now paying their truck drivers more. We did a report earlier on Total Transportation and how the company made the extra effort to pay their truck drivers more. Carbon...
Truck Driver Shortage Could Stress Industry
30,000 Truck Drivers Needed
A shortage of truck drivers, ripple effects from an extraordinarily harsh winter, new federal trucking regulations, more items needing to be transported and higher fuel costs are why some companies are...