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Uber Freight cuts 150 jobs, about 3% of the unit’s head count
Uber Freight has laid off 150 employees, or about 3% of the segment’s total head count. The layoffs affect the division’s digital...
icarussmith20
Jan 25, 20231 min read


Microsoft Backs Autonomous Trucking - What Could This Mean for the Sector?
A leak from within Microsoft has confidentially revealed to Reuters that the company is set to invest $10 million dollars into a...
icarussmith20
Jan 12, 20233 min read


Microsoft to invest in autonomous trucking startup Gatik -sources
Jan 4 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is in advanced talks to invest in Gatik, a California-based autonomous driving startup, as part...
icarussmith20
Jan 5, 20232 min read


Transport's Green Transition
The Inflation Reduction Act (August 2022) has significantly improved the viability of investment in green energy and transport in the...
icarussmith20
Jan 4, 20235 min read


Family of Texas girl allegedly killed by a delivery driver sues FedEx and the driver’s employer
The family of Athena Strand, the 7-year-old Texas girl allegedly kidnapped and killed by a delivery driver, is suing FedEx and one of its...
icarussmith20
Dec 15, 20222 min read


Biden releasing nearly $36 billion to aid pensions of union workers
President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan,...
icarussmith20
Dec 12, 20222 min read


Diesel price increase affects trucking industry
Nationwide, truckers and trucking companies have been dealing with the rising prices of diesel since this summer. They say they are...
icarussmith20
Nov 21, 20222 min read


Trucking, oil companies ramp up warnings on diesel shortage: 'We put ourselves in this situation'
The transportation industry is shouldering the burden of sky-high diesel prices, as suppliers blame supply chain shortages and red tape...
icarussmith20
Nov 3, 20223 min read


Diesel disaster: Truckers ‘working for peanuts’ amid surging fuel prices
Truck drivers told Fox News they're struggling to make money as diesel prices surge amid a worsening shortage. "You're really not making...
icarussmith20
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Tesla’s Electric Semi Is Almost Here, But Elon Musk Hasn’t Shared Some Heavy Details
Hyperbole and big promises are to be expected when Elon Musk promotes a new product and based on his description of the soon-to-arrive...
icarussmith20
Oct 28, 20225 min read


American Trucking Association: Driver Shortage Remains High
American Trucking Associations (ATA) calculated the driver shortage has eased slightly but remains near its all-time high. “Based on our...
icarussmith20
Oct 27, 20221 min read


Up to 20 arrested after striking truckers block plant exits
PLYMPTON, Mass. — Striking truckers used tractor-trailers to block the exits at New England’s largest wholesale food distributor Monday...
icarussmith20
Oct 18, 20222 min read


Trucking jobs evaporate as shortage worsens
The number of trucking jobs went down in September, according to payroll data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor, as the...
icarussmith20
Oct 10, 20221 min read


How federal dollars could boost training for trucking, manufacturing jobs in central California
With agricultural fields being turned into warehouse property, and proximity to an inland highway system that connects southern and...
icarussmith20
Sep 8, 20226 min read


Foreign Immigration Could Relieve U.S. Trucker Shortage
As the saying goes, “Houston, we have a problem.” That is to say, we have an acute shortage of truck drivers in America problem. Truck...
icarussmith20
Sep 1, 20223 min read


Autonomous trucking future 'is almost upon us,' Uber Freight head says
Uber Freight (UBER) thinks it has a solution to the ongoing truck driver shortage here in the U.S. The unit, which is Uber’s trucking...
icarussmith20
Aug 17, 20222 min read


Is America Still Facing A Truck Driver Shortage?
Last year it was reported that America was facing an unprecedented truck driver shortage. Industry body the American Trucking Association...
icarussmith20
Aug 17, 20222 min read


Truck-Driver Pay Rose 11% Amid Strong Freight Demand Last Year
Wages for truck drivers rose at a double-digit pace last year as companies laid out hefty salaries, bonuses and benefits packages to...
icarussmith20
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Jury Acquits Truck Driver of All Charges in Crash That Left 7 Bikers Dead
By McKenna Oxenden and Eduardo Medina Published Aug. 9, 2022Updated Aug. 10, 2022, 10:03 a.m. ET A jury in New Hampshire on Tuesday...
icarussmith20
Aug 10, 20224 min read


Trucking CEOs expect higher prices, potential disruptions in second half of the year
U.S. trucking CEOs expect to maintain pricing power even with volumes softening in the second half of 2022 as retailers, manufacturers...
icarussmith20
Jul 29, 20223 min read
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