CNN- According to a senior White House official, President Biden is considering an emergency declaration that would enable release of diesel from a rarely used stockpile in a bid to address a major supply crunch.
Transport Topics- The acting head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said her agency and trucking are in alignment on top issues confronting the industry and pledged to work collaboratively with fleets to address them, including truck parking.
Commercial Carriers Journal- The expiration of local, state and federal lockdown orders last year put many motorists back into their commuting routines and sent traffic crashes and fatalities to near-record levels, according to preliminary data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
WMAQ-TV- Chicago is known as a premier freight hub in the country but it is also starting to develop an unsavory reputation among some of the nation’s trucking companies.
Truck drivers believe they were targeted in the city after driving straight into an elaborate predatory towing ploy by some companies, costing them tens of thousands of dollars.
Transport Topics- The ice season is over on the Great Lakes, but the impacts of insufficient Coast Guard icebreaking linger.
During this year’s ice season, the U.S.-flag Great Lakes shipping industry lost the equivalent of a month due to delays in ice-covered waters. More than 1.6 million tons of cargo carrying capacity was delayed for 28 days due to ice conditions on Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and in Green Bay.
Freight Waves- With the U.S. workforce slowly undergoing a change from baby boomers to a labor pool full of Generation Z workers, attracting and retaining candidates can be challenging for employers, especially trucking companies.
Truck driving is a hard profession and is often a job of last resort for many workers, but leveraging technology to attract younger employees is something almost any company can do.
Commercial Carriers Journal- The biggest factors contributing to the lack of retirement savings is lack of education, absence of workplace plans and frequent distributions from retirement accounts.
Unfortunately, the same circumstances plague the trucking industry. However, trucking firms do have the unique opportunity to introduce and encourage their younger drivers to take retirement savings seriously.
