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Newsby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 11, 2025

Jack Cooper Transport Shutting Doors After Nearly a Century

Other auto haulers stand to benefit from the demise of Jack Cooper Transport, which lost its two biggest customers this year.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsSeptember 25, 2023

Newsom Vetoes California Autonomous Truck Bill

California Gov. Gavin Newsome vetoed Assembly Bill 316, which would have banned driverless autonomous trucks over 10,000 pounds from California roads.

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Truck Techby Jack RobertsSeptember 1, 2023

Autonomous Shockwaves Start to Hit Home

New legislation supported by organized labor is cropping up seeking to regulate how autonomous trucks will be used by fleets on public roadways. What's going on? Jack Roberts explores in his Truck Tech blog.

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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeAugust 31, 2023

Labor Day Holds New Meaning in Summer of Union Challenges for Trucking

Remember the "labor" behind Labor Day. The summer of 2023 has seen ongoing disputes between labor unions and transportation companies, but those differences are nothing new. The first Labor Day parade in 1882 was actually a workers' strike.

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Newsby Wayne ParhamAugust 2, 2023

Stifel Analyst Offers Insight into Market Impact of Yellow’s Exit

With longtime trucking giant Yellow shutting down and reported to be planning to file for bankruptcy, what is the impact on the trucking industry, in particular LTL?

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJuly 31, 2023

Yellow Ceases Operations, Likely to Liquidate

Yellow Corp., one of the longest-serving American trucking companies, ceased operations over the weekend and has announced it will be filing for bankruptcy.

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Newsby StaffAugust 25, 2022

Teamsters, Universal Settle Labor Dispute

A southern California drayage company will have to make all its independent contractor drivers into union employees under a settlement of a longstanding labor dispute.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeJanuary 20, 2022

Teamsters Target XPO Independent Contractor Drivers at California Ports

Port and rail truck drivers working for XPO Logistics in Southern California filed for an election to form a union — even though federal law prohibits them, as independent contractors, from organizing.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeSeptember 17, 2020

Safety Advocates, Teamsters Challenge Hours of Service Changes

Less than two weeks before revised hours of service rules are set to take effect, they have been challenged in court by a coalition of safety advocacy groups that are often seen as anti-trucking, along with the Teamsters union.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeJanuary 16, 2020

Judge: California Can't Enforce AB5 Against Trucking

A U.S. Southern District Court on Jan. 16 granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting California state officials from enforcing a controversial new law against motor carriers that makes it virtually impossible to contract with owner-operators in the state.

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