05 May Swift Launches Digital Marketing Strategy for Truck Drivers Swift Transportation is reaching out to young people with a new digital marketing campaign that promotes the company's unique culture, size and emphasis on people. Read more...
05 May UPS Agrees to Buy Irish Package Carrier as Part of European Expansion UPS Inc. has agreed to purchase Nightline Logistics Group, a package delivery and logistics firm based in Ireland. Read more...
05 May UPS Contract Plane Crash Lands in West Virginia, Killing Two Two crew members died when a small cargo plane carrying packages for UPS Inc. crashed after touching down at a West Virginia airport. Read more...
05 May Big-Ship Era Dawns for East Coast as Record-Setting Ship Transits Panama Canal The Panama Canal truly entered the big-ship era the week of May 8 when the largest vessel to date - a vessel from Asia that is as long as the Eiffel Tower is high and 158 feet wide - transited the expanded canal en route to the United States. Read more...
05 May Port Tampa Bay Opens Up on Becoming Cuba Ready TAMPA, Fla. - "Cuba ready" for trade and travel opportunities with the island is how Port Tampa Bay promotes its stance on engaging the former Cold War enemy. Read more...
05 May 550 Warehouse Workers to Be Laid Off After Midwest Grocer Files for Bankruptcy After almost 100 years of doing business, Joliet,Ill.-based Central Grocers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy May 4 and will lay off about 550 employees at the company's Joliet warehouse. Read more...
05 May Firefighting UPS Driver Gets His Reward: Tickets to a Celtics Playoff Game MANCHESTER, N.H. - A UPS driver who doused a house fire with a garden hose last month was lauded May 2 at the Boston Celtics playoff game, one of the many honors the Manchester resident has recently received. Read more...
05 May YRC Worldwide Sheds 180 Management and Other Nonunion Jobs as Quarterly Loss Doubles Overland Park, Kan.-based YRC Worldwide Inc. said that its financial loss doubled in the first quarter and that it cut 180 management and other nonunion jobs in a streamlining effort to make the trucking business more efficient. Read more...
05 May Trucking Industry Payrolls Dip by 100 in April For-hire trucking lost 100 jobs in April, while overall payrolls increased by 211,000, the Labor Department reported May 5. Read more...
05 May JSG Trucking Wins Prestigious California Safety Award JSG Trucking works hard to keep California's roads safe, and they have the awards to prove it. Read more...