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Daimler Truck AG and Toyota Motor Corp. plan to merge their Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. and Hino Trucks Ltd. units to save money on advanced technology development and create a globally competitive Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer. Details of the merger, including what share each company would control, are pending. The transaction is expected…
Pilots at cargo airline Air Transport International, a large transport provider for Amazon Air, and parent company Air Transport Services Group last week asked the National Mediation Board to help broker stalled contract talks. The request comes nearly a month after union leadership representing FedEx pilots empowered itself to request a strike authorization vote from…
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On the heels of deals at other Class I railroads, Union Pacific has reached agreements with eight unions to provide workers up to seven paid sick days. The agreement goes into effect April 1. According to a prepared statement from UP (NYSE: UNP), the employees in the unions that agreed to the deal will receive…
Welcome to the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Newsletter. In this issue, load board fraud rises, freight recession, dangerous states for truckers and kids crawling under trains. Freight recession and the MSM Twitter Deterioration — Produce season is a bust, the ports continue to slump, and a new batch of earnings reports reveals just how dire the…
Chart of the Week: National Truckload Index, Outbound Tender Rejection Index – USA SONAR: NTI.USA, OTRI.USA Truckload spot rates increased marginally compared to month-ago levels while tender rejection rates barely moved over the last two weeks of May, providing little hope to transportation providers that capacity has corrected noticeably. The National Truckload Index (NTI), which measures average spot…