Truck leases and rentals grew during a surge of ecommerce shopping last year and have continued score with fleets “desperate for trucks” amid rising demand and an ongoing microchip shortage that’s hampered new truck production. To help meet demand, Enterprise Truck Rental plans to open a new location in Macon, Ga. about 80 miles south […]
Following a years-long battle, workers at XPO Logistics (CCJ Top 250, No. 6) in Miami, Florida, voted unanimously on Saturday, July 10, to ratify the first Teamsters contract at the transportation and logistics giant. “XPO management said workers in the U.S. would never ratify a contract, but never is now,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. […]
A panel of trucking industry experts came up with a new way of looking at the trucking industry’s number one problem that just might turn the conventional wisdom about a “driver shortage” on its head. This, in addition to a look at the U.S. economy’s response to the pandemic pushing the trucking industry to historically […]
World-class customer service is now an expectation from end-user consumers who have gotten used to clicking a button, ordering it now and having it at their doorstep tomorrow — or in some cases, later that same day. And now corporate decisions makers have a heightened sense of what constitutes good customer service having seen what […]
As part of the Biden administration’s ongoing work addressing supply chain disruption, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, and Deputy Administrator Meera Joshi of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hosted a roundtable Thursday to discuss truck driver recruitment and retention. “Our economy is getting back on its feet, but the pandemic has […]
United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2069 members rejected for the third time a new labor agreement Friday evening, extending a strike at Volvo Trucks North America’s New River Valley truck assembly operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, that has dragged on for more than a month. Volvo Trucks and UAW leadership reached their most recent agreement […]
Daimler Trucks North America is recalling more than 120,000 trucks for an issue that could cause a loss in electrical power and an unintended engine stall, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration documents. The recall affects approximately 122,056 model year 2019-2022 Freightliner Cascadia P4, 2021 Western Star WH126, 2020 Western Star WJ121, and 2021-2022 […]
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced four more guilty pleas in the widespread staged-accident fraud scheme in the New Orleans area that targeted motor carriers and insurance companies. On June 23, James “Curtis” Williams and Ryan Wheaten entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. According to the […]
Navistar on Wednesday said it has received all regulatory approvals needed to proceed with a previously announced merger with Dusk Inc., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Traton SE. The closing date of the merger is expected to be on July 1, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Navistar, the manufacturer of International Trucks, and Traton, […]
