Trucking labor

Pay is a major factor in driver turnover, but not the only one. Detention at shipper docks was cited several times in an online discussion of driver detention on the LinkedIn social media Web site.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers rose to 89 percent in the third quarter, as trucking companies struggled to hire and retain experienced drivers.

Technology provider ModusLink Global Solutions named Tom Nightingale, most recently chief marketing officer at Con-way, president for sales and marketing.

When UPS executives sit down to negotiate a new five-year contract with the Teamsters union next year, they’ll face a very familiar negotiating team.

Trucking employment rose 2.7 percent in November from a year ago but was almost flat from October, rising only 0.3 percent despite high demand for truck drivers, according to federal statistics.

Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union’s general election.

With ballots still being counted, James P. Hoffa opened a broad lead over opponents Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope Wednesday in the Teamsters union elections.

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

What’s keeping trucking executives awake at night as 2012 approaches? If it’s not the threat of a double-dip recession, it’s drivers, drivers and drivers.

A few years ago, shippers might have considered driver retention a carrier problem.

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The building blocks of driver retention seem deceptively simple: pay, working conditions, communications and training. But drivers can be lost in the details.

Shippers need to do more to help trucking companies reduce rising driver turnover rates and help keep transportation costs in line, a transportation consultant says.

Employment in for-hire trucking rose only two tenths of a percent in September from August, as the U.S.

An election that could determine the course of the Teamsters union and the tenor of its relations with employers begins Thursday as ballots are mailed to Teamsters.

The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.

Truck drivers are leaving large truckload carriers for other employers at a faster pace, but smaller competitors are keeping more drivers, a survey shows.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing New Prime, one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers, for discrimination against women truck drivers.

When is a mile less than 5,280 feet? When it’s part of a trucker’s paycheck.

Wesley B. Kemp, the president and CEO of ABF Freight System, will retire Dec. 31 after more than 40 years with the less-than-truckload carrier, the company said Wednesday.

Sotheby’s isn’t a name often linked with trucking, but the famed auction house is locked in a labor dispute with trucking’s largest union that could foreshadow increased militancy wi

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide disputed claims that members of its new board of directors will be paid more than members of its last board.

A Teamster candidate challenging James P. Hoffa took a swing at YRC Worldwide’s board of directors this week, attacking increases in cash retainers for directors.

If rule-making at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration continues this fall the way it’s been going, the agency may need electronic on-board recorders to keep track of its own legal te

Candidates for top office in the Teamsters union battled over the fate of multiemployer pension plans, jobs and organizing and concessions to employers Sept.

The terrorists attacks of September 11 forced the U.S. government to take a closer look at not only the security risks facing their airspace, but at its ports, railroads and highways as well.

The Arizona Supreme Court cleared the way for a driver lawsuit against Swift Transportation that could have big ramifications for how trucking companies pay drivers.

The July figures from the Labor Department included 551,000 job openings in trade, transportation and utilities industries, a 33 percent increase from a year ago.

Pacific Coast-based Gordon Trucking is pointing its business toward the East Coast. The Pacific, Wash.-based truckload carrier is acquiring Central U.S.

Trucking employment fell slightly in August and has remained relatively flat since June, according to seasonally adjusted data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

U.S. logistics industry observers say the availability of truck drivers may be the largest issue facing domestic shippers in the coming year.

It’s a question no one wants to ask and nobody wants to hear, especially when the rush-order that came in at 5 p.m.

Refrigerated carrier Frozen Food Express Industries can’t find truck drivers fast enough.

Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding in the Midwest by adding 84,000 square feet and more than 100 doors to its Indianapolis terminal, and hiring 183 people.

Harbor truckers have complained for years that marine terminal gates are a source of lengthy yet preventable delays in the transportation supply chain.

Car-hauling Teamsters approved a National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement that will raise their wages $1.35 per hour over four years.