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July 4, 2023
Dockworkers strike continues at Canada’s West Coast portsA strike by 7,400 Canadian dockworkers against their West Coast ports employers has entered its fifth day as negotiations have…
June 30, 2023
Threats of an LTL Shutdown, UPS Strike Loom for US ShippersThe ground is trembling beneath the less-than-truckload (LTL) market this week as Yellow, the third-largest US LTL carrier, warned in…
June 29, 2023
California Supreme Court to Review Rulings on Constitutionality of Prop 22The battle over the constitutionality of California’s Prop 22 lives on, with the state’s Supreme Court granting review of mixed…
June 28, 2023
Analysts Contemplate a Yellow BankruptcyWith questions swirling around the fate of the nation’s third-largest less-than-truckload carrier, Yellow Corp., industry analysts have started looking at…
June 26, 2023
Truck Tonnage Snaps Mini Stretch of Declines with May GainsTruck tonnage volumes snapped two months of declines with an increase in May, according to data issued today by the…
June 15, 2023
Tentative Agreement Ends Workers Slowdowns and Stoppages that Crippled West Coast PortsA tentative deal between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union was announced Wednesday night, ending…
June 13, 2023
FedEx Union Leaders Approve New Pilot DealThe FedEx Master Executive Council (MEC), the governing body of the FedEx unit of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l…
June 13, 2023
UPS Drivers on Track to Get Air-Conditioned Trucks for the First TimeWith a strike authorization vote underway, union leaders and UPS announced a tentative deal to add air conditioning to the…
June 1, 2023
Supreme Court Rules Against Truck Drivers Who Walked Off JobIn a dispute about the pressure that organized labor can exert during a strike, the Supreme Court ruled June 1 against…
May 31, 2023
Pandemic-Induced Trailer Dislocation Still Hampering US Truckload CarriersOne of the pandemic’s persistent impacts on the truckload market has been a systemic dislocation of trailers, a dynamic that…