In the world of electric vehicle and autonomous trucking startups, the picture of winners and losers is far from complete. But activity in recent weeks and months shows the inevitable shakeout is fully underway. It’s too soon to know which companies will ultimately survive and in what form — independent, merged or something else. A…
The number of truck transportation jobs in the latest monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report was an up-and-down affair. Total jobs in June in the truck transportation sector declined by 200 jobs from May, according to the BLS, coming in at 1,609,700 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. But that decrease came against an adjusted…
The effects of the dockworkers strike at West Coast ports in Canada is reverberating through the supply chain and to the railways. About 7,400 workers with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada’s Longshore Division went on strike last Saturday after negotiations with the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association failed to reach a new labor…
Temporary help agencies (THAs) and recruiters will need to be licensed in Ontario as of Jan. 1, in a bid to crack down on agencies that pay below minimum wage […]
Piloted convoys put in place for commercial vehicles traveling along a detour route to and from Port Alberni, B.C., are coming to an end on Highway 4 effective July 7. […]