Several hundred truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began a strike against four fleets, including two controlled by XPO Logistics, but there were no reports of interrupted cargo flow on the docks at the nation’s two largest ports.
On Monday, April 27, 2015, port truck drivers serving the nation’s largest port complex began a strike of four major drayage firms serving the twin ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, where a crippling slowdown in early 2015 sent shock waves through the U.S. economy. Primary picket lines are now up company yards in the greater […]
LOS ANGELES — Truck drivers who haul goods from the nation’s busiest port complex in Southern California walked off the job Monday in a dispute over their wages and employee status, months after another West Coast labor conflict cost major delays in billions of dollars of trade.
The current surface transportation bill, MAP-21, will expire on May 31. Congress must use this opportunity to craft new legislation that will, for the first time, make freight a high priority.
A second group of federal lawmakers has introduced legislation to regulate the transport of crude oil by rail. U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) yesterday introduced the Crude-By-Rail Safety Act (H.R. 1804), which the congressman said would set new safety and security standards to address growing concerns that current standards fail to address the threat posed […]
New Jersey will need to invest more in highway and rail freight infrastructure to handle the increasing cargo volume at Port Elizabeth/Port Newark that is propelling the growth of the state’s transportation and logistics sector, said State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester.
The Surface Transportation Board approved on April 10 a joint proposal by Louisville & Indiana Railroad (L&I) and CSX Transportation to upgrade a key freight corridor between Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky.
Even with a very slight decline, the non-manufacturing activity for the month of March was strong, according to data issued today by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) in its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business
(This article required registration at the Journal of Commerce. To access, please click on the above link.) U.S. West coast shippers are taking a much-needed sigh of relief after International Longshore and Warehouse Union delegates voted in favor of recommending the tentative five-year agreement with waterfront employers to rank-and-file members
Talk to freight locomotive manufacturers, and they’ll tell you that increased demand for operator safety and operational efficiency are driving today’s innovations. They’ll also say they are continuing to develop environmentally friendly generator sets (GenSets) and testing the viability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology. Moreover, they’re testing and fine-tuning units that comply with the […]
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