Category: Management

Truckstop is diving into the 4 main types of fraud that specifically target freight carriers and independent owner-operators

Truckstop is diving into the 4 main types of fraud that specifically target freight carriers and independent owner-operators

| July 14, 2023

Truckstop Fraud Prevention Friday: Protect Yourself Against Fraud Transportation industry insiders are seeing historic levels of fraud in the freight market, where an increasing number of scammers falsely identify themselves with the intent to steal either cargo or pay. Not only are digital scams pervasive in the freight industry, but hijacking of entire trucks while on […]

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Freight Rates Down 21%; Truckload Cycle Nears Bottom 

Freight Rates Down 21%; Truckload Cycle Nears Bottom 

| July 13, 2023

Cass Transportation Index reports dynamics of the freight market continue to shift, leading us into the late phase of the freight cycle Cass Freight Index – Shipments The shipments component of the Cass Freight Index® fell 1.6% m/m in June and fell 1.9% m/m in seasonally adjusted (SA) terms. In seasonally adjusted terms, the index is […]

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TEAMSTERS APPLAUD CALIFORNIA SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE FOR PASSING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BILL AB 316

TEAMSTERS APPLAUD CALIFORNIA SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE FOR PASSING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BILL AB 316

| July 13, 2023

Teamster-supported bill that would require a trained human operator in autonomous vehicles (AVs) weighing over 10,000 pounds  California Assembly Bill 316 (AB 316), a Teamster-supported bill that would require a trained human operator in autonomous vehicles (AVs) weighing over 10,000 pounds, unanimously passed the Senate Transportation Committee today with bipartisan support. The bill, which will keep […]

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41 XPO Drivers to Compete in the National Truck Driving Championships, the “Super Bowl of Safety”

41 XPO Drivers to Compete in the National Truck Driving Championships, the “Super Bowl of Safety”

| July 11, 2023

XPO’s NTDC finalists hail from 24 states and represent the company’s largest number of national competitors in eight years XPO announced that 41 of its drivers will represent the company at this year’s National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC), known as the “Super Bowl of Safety.” Each of the drivers earned finalist status by winning first […]

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CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week is Underway

CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week is Underway

| July 11, 2023

Officers, troopers and inspectors throughout North America will take to roadways with keen attention to passenger vehicle drivers and commercial motor vehicle drivers who are driving unsafely Today is the first day of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) weeklong driver safety traffic-enforcement initiative, Operation Safe Driver Week. Officers, troopers and inspectors throughout North America […]

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Women Comprise 12.1 Percent of Commercial Driver Workforce

Women Comprise 12.1 Percent of Commercial Driver Workforce

| July 11, 2023

In addition, the 2023 WIT Index found an average of 43.5% of overall dispatchers are women According to new data from the WIT Index, which was just released by the Women In Trucking Association (WIT), an average 12.1% of overall professional drivers who hold commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) and drive heavy-duty trucks are female. Women […]

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