Yellow's situation has disrupted the LTL market. (Yellow Corp.) Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. ceased operations on July 30 after nearly 100 years in business, causing an upheaval for both its customers and the broader LTL market. News of the shutdown emerged organically, as word of layoffs and service cancellations began to swirl. The company issued ...more
Yellow's situation has disrupted the LTL market. (Yellow Corp.) Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. ceased operations on July 30 after nearly 100 years in business, causing an upheaval for both its customers and the broader LTL market. News of the shutdown emerged organically, as word of layoffs and service cancellations began to swirl. The company issued ...more
CEO Mark Rourke said in a news release. “Our dedicated new business pipeline remains solid." (Schneider National Inc.) Schneider National on Aug. 3 announced that both income and revenue fell during the second quarter. The Green Bay, Wis.-based company said Q2 net income fell 40% to $77.5 million, or 43 cents per diluted share, from $129.8 ...more
An entrance to the Ohio Turnpike. (Marvin Fong/Tribune Content Agency) COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Turnpike is preparing to overhaul the way it calculates tolls starting this fall, which will help the turnpike’s finances but have varying effects on motorists’ wallets. Other changes are coming to the turnpike, too, including allowing E-ZPass users to drive ...more
A Goodyear plant in Thailand. (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) Weaker demand from the U.S. and European commercial truck sectors resulted in a second-quarter 2023 loss at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., it said, while also citing a tornado shuttering production at a Mississippi plant as a factor. Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear reported a loss of ...more
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses trucking giant Yellow Corp. of failing to provide the legally required amount of notice prior to laying off tens of thousands of workers.According to the suit filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware on August 1, Nashville-headquartered Yellow Corp. performed mass worker layoffs ...more
This week, a semi truck driver was issued multiple citations after becoming stuck on the Smugglers Notch segment of Vermont Route 108 in Cambridge, Vermont.Th incident began around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1 when Vermont State Police (VSP) were notified of a tractor trailer in Smugglers Notch.When troopers arrived on scene, they found the ...more
A Canadian truck driver was taken into custody after he was caught with marijuana and ketamine hidden in his trailer last week. Truck driver Ajaypal Dhillon was found with over 2,092 pounds of marijuana and over 112 pounds of ketamine hidden in boxes inside of his trailer, reported The Buffalo News. The contraband was found during ...more
Two people were ejected from a semi truck after wrecking on Rabbit Ears Pass on Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened on August 2nd in Routt County, Colorado between County Road 20 and Forest Service Road 296, seven miles east of Steamboat Springs. According to Steamboat Pilot News, the semi truck was traveling west on US 40 when ...more
A man is facing a murder charge for allegedly intentionally running over another person during a dispute over payment for repairs to his dump truck.The incident occurred on Wednesday, August 2, in West Penn Township, Pennsylvania. Police were dispatched to a welding business at 725 Penn Drive for a report that a man had been ...more
