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Truck transportation jobs in the U.S. did something in June and July that they hadn’t done since the start of the pandemic: decline in both months. Since truck transportation seasonally adjusted jobs posted declines of 4,100 jobs and 84,500 jobs in March and April 2020, respectively, the number of jobs in that sector reported by…
The Federal Railroad Administration is proposing rules to formalize the certification process for two groups of craft employees working on U.S. freight railroads. Each proposed rule — one for train dispatchers and the other for signal employees — calls for railroads to develop programs to certify these individuals. The programs would verify that workers have…
Link Logistics, a national last-mile logistics real estate company, and Carrier Global Corp., (NYSE: CARR) a global provider of energy services, said they will collaborate to deliver energy management and analytics across Link’s 550 million-square-foot facility network. The collaboration is designed to enhance energy efficiency for Link’s assets and more than 11,000 customers, the companies…
If battery-operated electric trucks are to have more uses than regional and drayage hauling, it will take a breakthrough in the energy density of batteries so they can travel more than 250-300 miles on a single charge. Solid-state batteries, which have solid semiconductors as opposed to electron tubes, show great promise. Toyota Motor Corp. said…
The never-ending question of defining the employment status of a truck driver, key to battles over California’s AB5 and the U.S. Department of Labor’s recent independent contractor status regulation, was on display this week at the U.S Supreme Court. The issue at hand wasn’t specifically whether a driver should be considered an employee or an…
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