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UPS, Delivering Amazon’s Surge, Posts Record Revenue
As United Parcel Service Inc. UPS -1.70% targets smaller customers to help boost profits, it is also getting in deeper with the biggest...
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Pete Buttigieg Is Confirmed as Biden’s Transportation Secretary
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a 2020 Democratic presidential...
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Feb 3, 20214 min read
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Unions, groups seek $112.8 billion in U.S. transportation assistance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unions and trade groups are seeking at least $112.8 billion in additional government assistance to rescue the...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
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UPS shares jump on strong fourth-quarter earnings as Covid drives online shopping
Shares of UPS rose more than 4% on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected revenue and profits over the busy holiday...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
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Biden appoints new FMCSA deputy, along with other DOT posts
While the new leader of the Department of Transportation awaits an all-but-certain Senate confirmation, the Biden Administration...
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Jan 31, 20212 min read
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Transborder truck freight down 7.5%
Trucks moved freight valued at US$62.7 billion between the U.S., Canada and Mexico in November, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation...
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Jan 30, 20211 min read
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Driver detention review considered likely in Biden’s FMCSA
A proposed regulation to limit the amount of time a truck driver can be detained by a shipper without compensating the driver could gain...
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Jan 28, 20213 min read
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FedEx Ground CEO Maier announces retirement, company’s freight chief to fill top job
FedEx Ground CEO Henry Maier is retiring from the Memphis-based logistics giant after 35 years and will be replaced with FedEx’s top...
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Jan 27, 20211 min read
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Start-up tackling decarbonization of trucking sector gets funding from Amazon climate fund, Grantham
Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is backing a recently launched company focused on decarbonizing the transportation sector as the world...
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Jan 27, 20213 min read
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Buttigieg: Raising gas tax ‘on the table’ to pay for infrastructure
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg acknowledged on Thursday that raising the federal gas tax will be one...
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Jan 24, 20213 min read
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Teamsters pressure Democrats ahead of inauguration
HEAD OF PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN’S inauguration on Tuesday, the 1.4-million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters is hoping to...
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Jan 20, 20212 min read
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Truckers, union want Biden to reverse federal rules on truckers taking breaks
A federal appeals court says the Trump administration legally barred thousands of interstate truck drivers in California from taking meal...
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Jan 19, 20212 min read
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Hackers leak trucker, rail worker medical records
UPS (NYSE: UPS) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) said they are looking into whether employee health data was compromised after hackers...
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Jan 18, 20213 min read
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FMSCA announces leadership, members of 2021 safety advisory committee
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator (FMCSA) this week announced its 2021...
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Jan 15, 20213 min read
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DOT lays out strategy for automated trucking
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released on Monday a strategy for integrating automated driving systems (ADS) into the...
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Jan 12, 20213 min read
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Biden chooses Boston Mayor Walsh as Labor secretary
President-elect Joe Biden has picked Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a former top union leader, to serve as his Labor secretary, according to...
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Jan 8, 20214 min read
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UPS worker seen on racist rant video while delivering to a Latino household has been fired
A UPS driver who went on a racist rant while delivering a package to a Latino household in Milwaukee several days before Christmas Day...
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Jan 6, 20213 min read
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What will happen to US-Mexico freight in 2021?
The 2021 freight market could be one of the most important in years as the transportation and trade community attempt to recover from the...
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Jan 6, 20212 min read
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Truckers are in short supply. Drug testing doesn’t help
For years, trucking companies have complained about a shortage of one type of very essential worker: truckers. There are many reasons,...
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Jan 5, 20212 min read
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Oregon man sentenced in $3.2 million fraud scheme targeting trucking investors
An Oregon man was recently sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay back over $3.2 million for his role in an elaborate...
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Jan 4, 20212 min read
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