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The comforts of home: More fleets using in-cab TV to recruit, retain drivers
New advances in reliable high-quality satellite TV systems are allowing more drivers to catch their favorite shows in the privacy of their sleeper cabs. Also, more progressive fleets are viewing in-cab television as a shrewd way to attract new drivers and keep good ones.
August 25, 2015
Business
Kenworth, FASTPORT, TCA introducing trucking to veterans at military job fairs
Kenworth, FASTPORT and the Truckload Carriers Association are attending job fairs at military bases across the country to help find jobs for veterans transitioning into civilian life.
August 25, 2015
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Note to disgruntled former trucking editors: Trucks are not killing us
Trucking has made huge gains in terms of safety. And even more giant leaps are coming. To suggest otherwise is irresponsible and hypocritical, especially coming from someone who drew a nice paycheck from the trucking industry for 16 years.
August 24, 2015
Business
17-group coalition wants trucker drug testing provision removed from Senate highway bill
17 workers’ advocate associations, including the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters, have asked the House to nix in the DRIVE Act highway bill a provision that would make drug screening drivers via hair testing a federally recognized option.
August 20, 2015
Business
Alabama fleet to pay drivers $113,000 in back wages for driver misclassification, overtime denial
An Alabama trucking company has been ordered to pay $113,000 in back wages and damages following an investigation by the Labor Department.
August 19, 2015
Business
Making the most of driver apps
Using mobile apps to stay connected with drivers inside and outside the cab has become a strategy to improve quality of life while getting information faster and in more abundance than ever before.
August 18, 2015
Business
USA Truck giving company teams more hometime options
USA Truck has announced a new policy that will allow its company over-the-road driving teams to select when and where they take time off.
August 18, 2015
Business
Averitt Express increases pay for truckload drivers
Averitt Express has announced an increase in mileage pay for some of its truckload drivers, as well as several other enhancements in accessorial pay for regional drivers.
August 18, 2015
Business
Walmart driver wins ATA’s annual truck driving championship
Ronald Emenheiser Sr., a Walmart driver based in Yorkana, Pa., won the annual event, which was hosted by the American Trucking Associations.
August 17, 2015
Business
American Central Transport increases pay for drivers that use event recorders
As part of a new pay package, American Central Transport is encouraging its owner-operators to use event recorders.
August 13, 2015
Business
Stay Metrics aims to reduce early driver turnover with new research, predictive tools
Stay Metrics, providers of a driver engagement and research platform, has a new set of products that give fleets deeper insights into why their drivers are leaving.
August 11, 2015
Business
Bills in Congress would institute stiff penalties on those misclassifying drivers as contractors
Congress is considering duplicate bills, reintroduced this year, which would crack down on employers that misclassify employees as independent contractors.
August 7, 2015
Business
Nation’s top drivers set to compete in St. Louis
More than 400 top professional truck drivers from across the country will descend on St. Louis next week for the 78th annual Super Bowl of Safety.
August 6, 2015
Business
Celadon ordered to pay $200k to resolve disability discrimination suit
Celadon Trucking (No. 39 in the CCJ Top 250) has greed to pay $200,000 to settle a 2012 lawsuit brought against the carrier by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over Celadon’s pre-job offer medical screening of applicants for truck driver jobs.
August 6, 2015
Business
‘Who should be driving that massive truck?’, ‘Teen truckers?’: The national headlines on under-21 CDL holders
Despite what the headlines seem to convey — that no 18-year-olds are currently allowed to drive trucks — the provision in the Senate bill actually does nothing to make it easier for 18- and 19-year-olds to receive a CDL or become a truck operator. Here are the headlines — along with a little clarity.
August 4, 2015
Business
Calif. judge upholds ruling that carrier owes driver $179k in back wages over misclassification
A Los Angeles superior court ruled that Laca Express Inc. owes driver Ho Woo Lee $179,390 in back wages and expenses, upholding the state labor commissioner’s decision that the trucker was misclassified as an independent contractor.
August 3, 2015
Business
Pizza delivery fleet TBHC creates ‘non-punitive’ video-based safety program
TBHC, the country’s largest distributor of Hunt Brothers Pizza, used the SmartDrive video-based safety system to establish a driver improvement program that wasn’t punitive.
July 30, 2015
Business
Labor Department: Most workers should be classified as employees
The U.S. Department of Labor’s recently concluded most workers should be classified as employees instead of independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act — a contentious issue playing out in the trucking industry, as well as others, in both the courts, state legislatures and federally.
July 28, 2015
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