20 Aug Uber, Lyft Win Delay on Converting Drivers to Employees Uber and Lyft were spared from having to rapidly convert their California drivers to employees after an appeals court agreed they can keep their business models in place while challenging a judge’s order to comply with a state labor law. Read more...
20 Aug Day & Ross Continues Growth Plan by Expanding Into Ohio Day & Ross detailed the potential next steps of its multiyear expansion plan amid the completion of a new facility Aug. 19. Read more...
20 Aug Volvo Trucks Partners With India’s Delhivery for Express Operations Logistics company Delhivery and Volvo Trucks have joined hands to test and deploy a new transport solution for express operations that will help address the challenges in speedy delivery and cost efficiencies of services. Read more...
20 Aug ACT Virtual Series Highlights Environmental Sustainability Challenges Advanced Clean Transportation on Aug. 18 kicked off a four-month series to discuss environmental sustainability in trucking and the challenges those efforts still face. Read more...
20 Aug ATA Expands With Moving and Storage Conference, Council Stakeholders from the moving and storage industries have been made part of two groups that American Trucking Associations’ executive committee recently voted to create. Read more...
20 Aug UPS, FedEx Out to Prove They Can Profit in Holiday Season UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp., riding high from record package deliveries amid the coronavirus pandemic, are moving on to their next objective: showing investors they can boost profit in the approaching onslaught of the holidays. Read more...
20 Aug Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Increase to More Than 1 Million Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly increased last week, a stumble for the labor market in its long road to recovery. Read more...
20 Aug IMCC Sues OCEMA, Ocean Carriers for Up to $1.8 Billion in Chassis Dispute American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference on Aug. 17 filed a federal lawsuit against the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association and 10 international ocean carriers, alleging they colluded to manipulate the intermodal chassis market at dozens of ports across the country. Read more...
19 Aug Carriers Get Extension to Rid Systems of Chinese Technologies The Director of National Intelligence has extended the deadline to Sept. 30 for a requirement that motor carriers that do business with the federal government locate and purge telecommunications equipment manufactured by five Chinese companies that may be in use in their operations. Read more...
19 Aug White House Open to $25 Billion for USPS, McEnany Says The Trump administration is willing to consider the Democrats’ plan to spend $25 billion on the U.S. Postal Service — as long as lawmakers also provide other coronavirus relief sought by the White House, said spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany. Read more...