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The abrupt closure of Yellow, one of the U.S.’s oldest and largest trucking businesses, marks a significant event in the American trucking industry. The collapse comes after numerous failed mergers, mounting debt, and an ongoing dispute with the Teamsters union. […]

UPS and Teamsters, the union representing nearly 340,000 UPS workers are trying to reach a new five-year labor contract before the current contract expires at midnight July 31. Earlier this month, the two sides departed the bargaining table without coming […]

A delinquency notice was issued Monday showing less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. failed to make required contributions to health and welfare and pension funds for the month of June and that it is planning to withhold payments for July. The two […]

Contract negotiations between UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union collapsed early Wednesday morning, with each side blaming the other for its demise. The Teamsters issued a statement saying that UPS (NYSE: UPS) walked away from the bargaining table at 4 a.m. after presenting an […]

A strike by 7,400 Canadian dockworkers against their West Coast ports employers has entered its fifth day as negotiations have stalled. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada’s Longshore Division (ILWU Canada) went on strike Saturday after negotiations with the British Columbia […]

Xinjiang Province Postal Codes Will Trigger Forced Labor “Warning Message” On January 26, 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) provided more detail on its imminent implementation of another tool to detect potential forced labor imports into the United States.  […]

North American railroads are continuing to struggle to win domestic intermodal business from shippers, with volumes falling sequentially in eight out of the last 10 months, according to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). Preliminary data for February indicates […]

US for-hire truck tonnage is slipping from month to month, but remains higher than expected in a freight recession, according to the latest data from the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The non-seasonally adjusted ATA For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index dropped 0.4 […]

Supply chain management establishes the strategies with which a supply chain will be overseen as well as dictating the way in which tasks are discovered and remedied. In supply chain management, there is a concept known as the 7R’s… The […]

What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2022, over 100 container ships were stuck waiting off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, with around 150 off all North American ports combined. Now, there are almost no […]