As expected, UPS Teamsters voted overwhelmingly Friday to authorize its leadership to call a strike in the event a contract cannot be reached by the deadline of July 31. About 97% voted to authorize a strike, the union said. A strike authorization does not mandate a strike or determine that one will be called. UPS…
From spot market rates to repair and labor costs, stabilization is the theme for this week’s Economic Trucking Trends. Spot market rates may have bottomed, analysts report, volumes held steady, […]
ABF Freight System provided the details of a recently inked tentative agreement with its union workforce Thursday after the market closed. The new labor deal, if ratified, would provide employees with wage increases, a step up in health and welfare contributions, additional sick time, one more paid holiday and a revised profit-sharing program. The new…
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…
A day trip to the casino for a busload of seniors turned to devastation Thursday after a fiery crash with a tractor-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg. Fifteen people were […]