The director of the Arkansas State Police says he plans to ask the state Legislature to set stricter drunk driving standards for truckers when it meets next month
Read More →Yellow Freight System, an LTL carrier based in Overland Park, Kan., is expediting its Standard Ground service throughout the Northeastern U.S. and Canada
Read More →Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams TravelCenters will offer a frequent fueler awards program to professional drivers beginning Jan. 15
Read More →Highway officials say a newly implemented E-ZPass system on the Pennsylvania Turnpike has been causing some problems, thanks to motorists not following directions
Read More →The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking carriers if tarping loads poses a safety hazard for drivers
Read More →The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider whether or not loading and unloading a trailer is "operating or maintaining" a motor vehicle under the state’s workers’ compensation law
Read More →The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published a new listing of restricted, designated, and preferred road and highway routes for transporting radioactive and non-radioactive hazardous materials
Read More →Hundreds of union truckers and warehouse workers voted Friday to end a six-week Teamsters strike against a major warehouse contractor that disrupted supplies to Safeway supermarkets in California, Nevada and Hawaii
Read More →The Teamsters union wants the Canadian province of New Brunswick to recognize owner-operators as dependent contractors, which would allow them to join trade unions
Read More →Profit pressures from high fuel costs plus a softening of freight activity has caused truckload carriers to put the brakes on driver wage increases, says SignPost Inc. According to the company’s latest National Survey of Driver Wages, fewer than 15% of carriers made wage changes in the third quarter of 2000. By comparison, more than 20% made changes in third quarter 1999, 23% in 1998, and almost 25% in 1997
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