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  • Dockworkers strike outside of the Port of Newark in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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    ILA port strike ends through tentative deal

    The agreement, which extends the parties’ master contract, comes three days after a strike commenced at East and Gulf Coast ports.

    By • Updated Oct. 3, 2024
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    Trucking conferences to watch in 2025

    Plan your year ahead with these key gatherings that bring industry stakeholders to the same place.

    By • Updated Oct. 11, 2024
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from Trucking Dive

    These five stories detail the top trends and issues facing the trucking and transportation industry. 

    By Trucking Dive staff
  • Dockworkers at a ocean port terminal,
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    ILA strike begins, disrupting East and Gulf Coast ports

    Without a new port labor deal, the International Longshoremen’s Association instructed its members to halt work after midnight Tuesday.

    By • Oct. 1, 2024
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    ATRI surveys drivers on changing demographics

    The 20-question survey asks drivers to share their race, gender, experience, earnings level, company size and other details.

    By • Sept. 26, 2024
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    Amid political talk at work, employees want resources for psychological safety

    Employers can facilitate open and respectful dialogue, as well as offer policies and resources to address employees’ concerns and needs, Randstad says.

    By Carolyn Crist • Sept. 25, 2024
  • Yellow posted four signs announcing operations had ceased at the gate of its Hayward, California terminal.
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    Yellow must pay some of $6.5B in pension liability

    The bankrupt carrier and pension plans are sorting out pension obligations and formulas under dispute.

    By • Sept. 25, 2024
  • A Covenant Logistics Group truck and trailer.
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    Covenant rehires former SVP of sales

    Tyson Wimberly returned to his former employer after stints with ArcBest and MoLo Solutions.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
  • A Werner tractor-trailer on a highway alongside passenger traffic.
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    Union push ends at Werner subsidiary

    In a reversal from a year ago, workers signed a petition to revert a developing union contract.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
  • A FedEx Freight truck is stationed at a dock door.
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    FedEx Freight slashes spending 62% ahead of potential spinoff

    The logistics giant nearly halved overall truck and trailer expenditures last quarter.

    By • Updated Sept. 20, 2024
  • A. Duie Pyle driver Jesse Weeks backs his truck up to a customer dock on May 1, 2024.
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    5 things truck drivers want you to know

    For National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, we collected some takeaways from ride-alongs and driver interviews this year.

    By • Sept. 20, 2024
  • A Marten Transport tractor-trailer pulls into a truck parking lot in western Maryland in May 2024.
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    Marten execs take temporary pay cut

    Company leaders saw 7.5% and 5% reductions to base pay as part of a cost-cutting program.

    By • Sept. 19, 2024
  • EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator Alejandra Nunez briefs Truckload Carriers Association members during their 2024 Fall Business Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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    TCA Fall Business Meeting 2024

    EV trucking, politics take center stage at TCA conference

    The association’s Fall Business Meeting & Call on Washington featured a Q&A with an EPA official and advocacy for truck parking funding.

    By • Sept. 18, 2024
  • TCA members pose for a picture during their Fall Call on Washington 2024
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    Q&A // TCA Fall Business Meeting 2024

    EV, parking, labor law concerns command carriers’ attention, TCA president says

    Legislators and the EPA heard from truckload executives about the feasibility and fallout of new regulations last week.

    By • Sept. 17, 2024
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    Federal highway administrator leaves for private sector

    Shailen Bhatt took a job last week as at engineering firm AtkinsRéalis as SVP and COO of U.S., Latin America, minerals and metals.

    By • Sept. 16, 2024
  • Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of Inside Elections, briefs trucking leaders at the TCA 2024 Fall Business Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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    Harris has momentum in reset race, political analyst tells trucking execs

    But the presidential election remains too close to call, and anyone who says otherwise "is not really being honest," Inside Elections’ Nathan Gonzales said.

    By • Sept. 13, 2024
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    Middle class workers fear outliving their retirement savings, report finds

    Respondents said they faced competing financial priorities, such as paying off debt and covering basic living expenses.

    By Ginger Christ • Sept. 13, 2024
  • EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator Alejandra Nunez briefs Truckload Carriers Association members during their 2024 Fall Business Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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    TCA Fall Business Meeting 2024

    ‘It isn’t going to work’: Carrier execs slam EPA emissions rule

    Trucking leaders challenged the feasibility of the Phase 3 greenhouse gas reduction rule for new heavy-duty trucks during a Q&A with an EPA official Wednesday.

    By • Sept. 12, 2024
  • A passenger vehicle mirror shows the front of an ACT tractor driving along a highway.
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    AAA Cooper promotes leaders to presidents of LTL, dedicated

    The Knight-Swift LTL carrier elevated Chris Durley and Cory Bingham to key roles.

    By • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Almost 4 in 10 leaders admit to ‘fauxductivity,’ Workhuman finds

    The phenomenon could be a symptom of poor culture, creating a toxic cycle of performative productivity and productivity anxiety.

    By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Wheaton Bekins promotes executive to sales, marketing role

    The relocation specialty carrier promoted Central Regional Sales Director April Milner just months after appointing a new president.  

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
  • Darren Hawkins, former Yellow CEO, smiles in a corporate headshot.
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    Yellow’s Darren Hawkins has a new job

    The former CEO of the bankrupt LTL giant will lead the North American Chassis Pool Cooperative as president and CEO.

    By • Sept. 9, 2024
  • A Teamsters union member holds a picket sign while speaking to a truck driver at the entrance of CN Rail - Intermodal Yard on August 22, 2024 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
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    ATRI calls on carriers to share trucking’s top concerns

    The American Trucking Associations’ research arm uses the input to help prioritize industry strategy.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
  • A truck moves along a highway during a summer sunset with a ridge line in the background.
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    OSHA heat prevention rule calls for rest breaks every 2 hours

    A proposal could potentially require 15-minute breaks when temperatures reach 90 degrees or above.

    By • Sept. 5, 2024
  • ABF Freight trucks at a dock.
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    ABF Freight to raise LTL pricing 5.9%

    The increase may vary across specific lanes and shipments, according to the company.

    By • Sept. 4, 2024
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    Kroger e-commerce center drivers vote to join Teamsters

    The facility in Georgia is set to become the grocer's second fulfillment center where drivers have agreed to unionize.

    By Catherine Douglas Moran • Sept. 4, 2024