27 May US Jobless Claims Fall Again to New Pandemic Low Applications for U.S. state unemployment insurance fell for a fourth consecutive week as more Americans get vaccinated and businesses reopen to eager customers. Read more...
27 May The Commercial EV Buzz Is Coming From Infrastructure It’s spring, and talk of electric vehicle infrastructure is sprouting all over. Read more...
26 May CTA Pursues Review of AB 5 Contractor Ruling The California Trucking Association has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a full appellate court review of a three-member panel’s earlier decision regarding a state law that many in trucking deem unfair to the industry. Read more...
26 May Rival Canadian Railroad Leaders Make Pitch for Kansas City Southern Leaders of the rival Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railroads on May 26 made their pitches about why their respective railroads should be approved to purchase Kansas City Southern Railroad. Read more...
26 May ATA, OOIDA Letter Strongly Opposes Cornyn’s Trucks-Only VMT Idea Trucking industry stakeholders continue to push back on Sen. John Cornyn’s suggestion of a nationwide transportation fee that would exclusively be levied on commercial vehicles. Read more...
26 May Ford CEO Farley Stokes Stock With His $30 Billion Bid in EV Race Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley made a bold bid for electric supremacy May 26 by boosting his company’s bet on plug-in models by more than a third, to $30 billion, and promising to electrify virtually the entire lineup. Read more...
26 May Senate Panel Advances Five-Year Highway Bill Legislation designed to update the country’s highway infrastructure networks was approved by a committee in the U.S. Senate May 26. Read more...
26 May Bezos: Amazon’s Andy Jassy Will Become CEO on July 5 Amazon .com Inc.’s new CEO will take the reins on July 5, the 27th anniversary of the company’s incorporation, outgoing CEO Jeff Bezos said during the annual shareholder meeting on May 26. Read more...
26 May UPS Launches End-to-End Cold Chain Solutions UPS is taking the lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic to expand its specialty pharmaceutical offerings by establishing UPS Cold Chain Solutions, a suite of technologies, capabilities and global facilities that incorporates those lessons into an integrated logistics platform, the company announced May 24. Read more...
26 May Safety Culture Helps Fleets Guard Against Lawsuits, Experts Say Motor carriers with a culture that prioritizes safety can protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits and help stave off the multimillion-dollar court settlements that make headlines in accident litigation involving trucking companies, safety experts said. Read more...