UPS Plans to Offer Voluntary Buyouts to Union Drivers
A driver unloads packages from a UPS truck in San Francisco. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) UPS Inc. plans to offer voluntary buyouts to union-represented delivery drivers for the first time in the company’s history as part of an effort to boost profit by slimming down its operations. Drivers would receive “a ...more
Retail Sales Increase 1.4% in March Ahead of Tariffs
Customers shop for televisions at a retail store in Glenview, Ill., on April 3. (Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press) NEW YORK ...more
Trump Says He’s in ‘No Rush’ to End Tariffs
President Donald Trump greets Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House on April 17. (Alex Brandon/AP) WASHINGTON — ...more
Several truckers who bypassed an Oregon weigh station were ticketed and educated during an enforcement detail in Union County this ...more
A truck driver is dead after a falling tree struck his tractor trailer on Interstate 64 in Virginia on Wednesday ...more
The American Pyrotechnics Association (APA) has asked federal authorities to grant relief from certain regulations for fireworks haulers. In a ...more
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs from a commercial vehicle at a Michigan ...more
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is reminding the trucking community about rules on having alcoholic ...more
Canadian police are investigating an overpass strike that occurred on Highway 99 on Wednesday. According ...more
Oil CEOs Meet With Trump as US Unwinds Environmental Rules
The Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery in Wilmington, Calif. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg) The chief executives of ...more
Trump Approves LNG Exports From Venture Global’s CP2 Project
Venture Global's CP2 project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. (Venture Global LNG Inc.) President Donald Trump’s ...more
February Medium-Duty Sales Decline 16.8% Year Over Year
A lineup of Freightliner em2 trucks. Freightliner, a brand of Daimler Truck North America, sold ...more
Tariff Threats Spur TSMC’s Taiwan Peers to Seek US Expansion
TSMC’s fabrication plant in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s ...more
Volkswagen Raises $393M in Sale of Traton Truck Unit Stake
The Volkswagen headquarters and auto plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News) Volkswagen AG raised ...more
Shipping Group Says Trump Port Fee Plan Will Hurt Economy
A ship under construction in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. (Meng Delong/VCG/Getty Images) A plan by ...more
DOT’s Duffy Announces ‘Road Map’ for Air Taxis
A Wisk Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL prototype aircraft at the Paris Air Show on June ...more
Fewer Truck Drivers Looking to Switch Carriers
Truck drivers emphasized predictable pay and better home time as high priorities in the survey. ...more
Home Depot Challenges Brad Jacobs-Led QXO for Supplier Deal
(Wilfredo Lee/AP/File) Home Depot Inc. has made an offer for GMS Inc., potentially setting off ...more
Connecticut Combats Wrong-Way Driving
In 2022, records indicated 13 wrong-way crashes in Connecticut that resulted in 23 deaths. (Connecticut ...more
Kroger Plans to Close 60 US Stores to Improve Profit
(Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News) Kroger plans to close around 60 U.S. grocery stores over the next ...more
Driver abandons semi trailer, leaving $75k of ice cream to melt
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a semi trailer full of ice cream left abandoned ...more
US Ethanol Set to Wipe Out UK Production
(Randy Holt/Associated Press) Associated British Food Plc’s Vivergo ethanol plant, one of only two major ...more
Sheriff alerts truckers to three suspects trying to enter parked big rigs
The Brookings County Sheriffs Office (BCSO) out of South Dakota is warning truckers to be ...more