Trucking Failures Surged Last Year Under Pandemic
U.S. trucking company failures nearly tripled in 2020 from the previous year as fallout from the pandemic deepened pressure on smaller...
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US Transport News
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
Congressional Democrats set to back more than $50 billion for transportation sector
Democrats in the U.S. Congress are to release a sweeping plan on Monday to provide more than $50 billion in additional assistance to U.S....
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US Transport News
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
Trucking contract rates up 12% year-over-year
Shippers spent 12% more per mile for dry van truckloads on average through most of the fourth quarter of 2020 than they did in 2019. That...
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US Transport News
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Buttigieg: Talks ongoing on additional U.S. transportation sector assistance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Reuters on Thursday there are “very active” conversations...
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US Transport News
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Buttigieg says Transportation Dept will push 'bold' thinking
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, sworn in Wednesday as transportation secretary, urged his 55,000 employees to embrace "imaginative, bold,...
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US Transport News
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
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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US Transport News
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
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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US Transport News
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 30, 2021
- 1 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 24, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
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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US Transport News
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
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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