Trucking Alliance, same 9 members, continues to chart its own path on regulation

In the sweep of trucking-related trade groups, there is really nothing quite like The Trucking Alliance.  It started with nine members more than 10 years ago; it has the same nine members and isn’t taking applications for new ones. (However, it will be losing one, U.S. Xpress, when it is acquired by Knight-Swift. But Knight-Swift…

Norfolk Southern reaches sick leave agreement with locomotive engineers

Norfolk Southern and one of the largest unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), have reached an agreement over sick leave. The two also have a second quality-of-life agreement that will need to be ratified by members. By ratifying that agreement, the sick leave deal will also be ratified. The sick leave agreement…