What truckers are thinking about this holiday season
Story by: Linda Baker, Staff Writer @ FreightWaves.com FreightWaves caught up with a few truckers at the Jubitz Travel Center in Portland, Oregon, where conversation revolved around holiday plans and a profession in flux. What I’m doing: Laundry What I’m driving: 2013 Kenworth tractor What I’m hauling: Trade show equipment Where I’m going: St. Paul, Minnesota, then back home […]
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Days before Christmas, Universal Logistics lays off 70 Port drivers
Story by: Linda Baker, Staff Writer @ FreightWaves.com Citing a weak freight market, logistics company Universal Logistics Holdings (NASDAQ: ULH) has laid off up to 70 employee port and intermodal drivers at three subsidiaries – Universal Intermodal Services, Universal Truckload Services and Roadrunner Intermodal Services. The layoffs, which occurred last week, have impacted employees […]
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Starsky Robotics seeks potential buyers as autonomous startup struggles to raise funds
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves.com Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics is in talks with potential buyers, including some with its rivals, after failing to raise new funding to stay afloat, a former employee claims. The 3-year-old startup is best known for its Level 4 autonomous trucking technology that uses truck drivers as remote […]
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Starsky Robotics downsizes its OTR fleet, blames 2019 freight recession
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves.com It appears autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics’ over-the-road trucking (OTR) company is a victim of this year’s freight recession While Starsky Robotics says it remains committed to developing Level 4 autonomous vehicle technology, the company’s over-the-road trucking fleet is not faring as well. Starsky recently decided to downsize […]
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Malware hits Truckstop.com sites, services shut days before Christmas (with video)
Story by: Michael Angell, Bulk and Intermodal Editor @ FreightWaves.com Truckstop.com said a computer attack (malware) shut down access to many of its online services, forcing customers to find workarounds during the final shipping rush before Christmas. The outage has been ongoing since Friday, Dec. 20, according to some sources. Truckstop.com notified users publicly […]
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Truckers hail House passage of USMCA
Story by: Noi Mahoney @ FreightWaves.com Truckers, union officials hail House passage of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact (USMCA) The U.S. House of Representatives approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Dec. 19 by a 385-41 vote. American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear said cross-border trade is key to the U.S. economy. “By the nature […]
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Knight-Swift takes second swing at FMCSA driver-record exemption
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com Knight-Swift Transportation [NYSE: KNX] is appealing to federal regulators that it be exempt from having to provide certain record-keeping requirements for its drivers citing onerous and unnecessary costs. A letter from Knight-Swift attorneys recently made public by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) explains that Knight […]
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Trucking company smacked by Jury with $70.5 million ‘nuclear verdict’
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ freightwaves.com A California jury awarded a Bakersfield family involved in an August 2017 crash with a trucking company more than $70.5 million in damages on Dec. 19, 2019. “Nuclear verdicts” are described as jury awards in which penalties exceed $10 million. According to court documents, Tomasa Cuevas and her two […]
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Ohio-based GDS Express abruptly ceases operations
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves.com Former employees of GDS Express of Akron, Ohio, were still on the job early Dec. 20 working on getting approximately four drivers home after news broke that the carrier was shuttering operations just days before Christmas. A driver, who didn’t want to be named, told FreightWaves on Dec. […]
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