Yellow drivers speak out; UPS backup plans; beating cancer and a down market – WTT

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to Jay and Dwayne, a pair of Yellow drivers about what’s going down at the company. At the 11th hour on Sunday, the company was spared a strike but the clock is ticking on further action from the Teamsters union. With shippers pulling freight left…

LTL industry likely altered regardless of Yellow’s fate

Equity analysts weighed in on Yellow Corp.’s latest reprieve Monday morning just hours after a planned strike, which would have closed the company for good, was called off. The industry’s third-largest less-than-truckload carrier missed a July 15 benefits payment to health and welfare and pension funds managed by Central States. Teamsters at operating companies Holland…

WattEV opens public truck charging depot in Long Beach port

Megawatt charging depots so far are behind-the-fence operations exclusive to the fleets that operate them. Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) startup WattEV changes that when it opens its first charging-for-all installation at the Port of Long Beach. “A lot of competitors have been talking about infrastructure, but we actually have equipment in the ground,” Salim Youssefzadeh, WattEV founder…