President Joe Biden today blamed a sharp slow down in hiring for August on COVID and unvaccinated Americans as trucking pulled away with positive job growth. The Labor Department’s jobs report this morning showed that only 235,000 nonfarm new hires entered the workforce last month, a 60% drop from the monthly average of 586,000 job gains […]
Weigh station bypass service Drivewyze this week demonstrated automated electronic roadside inspections and how they can save time and money, while also improving highway safety. The demonstration took place at the CVSA conference in Wilmington, Delaware, in front of convention attendees that included state law enforcement and fleets from throughout the country. Trucks and drivers, […]
In addition to the emergency COVID relief hours of service waiver that was extended through November, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has also extended other COVID-related waivers dealing with licenses and medical certificates. Related to commercial driver’s licenses, FMCSA is allowing, but not requiring, states to extend the validity of CDLs that expired on or […]
Dillon Logistics, doing business as Dillon Transport (CCJ Top 250, No. 240), has closed its doors and shuttered its operations. The company has yet to issue a formal announcement, but a source familiar with the situation confirmed to CCJ Wednesday the Burr Ridge, Illinois-based fleet’s closure. According to CCJ data, Dillon owned 323 trucks and 531 trailers, and employed 341 […]
The national average price of on-highway diesel reached $3.34 last week, up a cent-and-a-half from the week before, but is likely to face additional pricing pressure this week as the remnants of Hurricane Ida cut a path across the Southeast. The storm has already left more than a million people in Louisiana and Mississippi without […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Southern and Western Service Centers issued a Regional Emergency Declaration, suspending certain requirements of Part 395 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for certain carriers in six states affected by Hurricane Ida, which made landfall around midday Sunday along the southeastern Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm. […]
Mathias Carlbaum has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of Navistar International Corporation effective Sept. 1, succeeding Persio Lisboa, who has held the position since July 2020. The move marks the first significant management shake up since Navistar’s merger with Traton SE, Volkswagen’s heavy truck division, was approved last month. Carlbaum most recently had been leading the post-merger management […]
Ron Round, a Maine-based truck driver for Pottle’s Transportation, was crowned the winner of the Bendix-sponsored American Trucking Associations 2021 National Battle of the States: Virtual Truck Driving Championships. Round, who has 2.7 million accident-free driving miles in his career, has been a professional driver for 33 years. For the last 22 years, he has […]
TA Services, a third-party logistics provider and division of PS Logistics, has completed the acquisition of Toronto, Canada-based broker Scout Logistics Corporation, which specializes in refrigerated perishable freight. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Since 2007, PS Logistics has acquired 23 trucking and brokerage operations. The acquisition represents TA Services’ expansion into the cold-chain […]
