Three Carriers Are Honored for Improving Driver Health
Three truckload carriers recently won awards for helping drivers battle the widespread occurrence of obesity, diabetes and respiratory problems — even as a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized the poor state of health for most longhaul truck drivers.
January 27, 2014First-Time Tolls Slashed for Tunnels to Va. Port
Newly elected Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) announced a nearly 50% reduction in the tolls that will be charged for the first time, starting Feb. 1, at two tunnels leading into the East Coast’s third-largest port.
January 27, 2014Officials Seek More Traffic Enforcement For Trucks to Reduce Highway Crashes
Traffic-enforcement inspections of trucks have been dwindling in recent years, even though safety officials say they are particularly useful in reducing highway crashes.
January 27, 2014YRC Teamsters Voting on Contract Extension as Carrier Faces $69 Million Debt Repayment
Teamsters members at YRC Worldwide Inc. were voting late last week on a revised contract-extension proposal, which is on a fast track because the carrier’s first $69 million of debt repayment looms in less than three weeks.
January 27, 2014Templin Succeeds Kennedy as Chairman of Con-way Inc.
Con-way Inc. announced that Roy Templin has succeeded Keith Kennedy Jr. as chairman of the carrier’s board of directors.
January 24, 2014December Trailer Orders Slip 4.5%
U.S. trailer manufacturers received 29,164 new orders in December, down 4.5% from the same month a year earlier but up 13.6% from November’s total, ACT Research Co. reported.
January 24, 2014FTR Trucking Conditions Index Dips in November
Business conditions for trucking worsened in November from the previous month but were still positive overall, industry analysis firm FTR said.
January 24, 2014Intermodal Rail Traffic Rises 8.2% for Week
U.S. rail intermodal traffic increased 8.2% in the week ended Jan. 18 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.
January 24, 2014Forward Air to Buy Central States Trucking
Forward Air Corp. said it will buy Central States Trucking Co. for $95.6 million.
January 24, 2014FTA’s Rogoff Named Acting Undersecretary at DOT
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff is filling the position of undersecretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation on an acting basis, Bloomberg News reported.
January 24, 2014