Truckers Stranded in New York Storm Along Thruway
Michele Fuetsch Transport Topics November 19, 2014 View the original piece Record-breaking snowfall and winds have stranded truckers and other travelers on a 132-mile stretch of the New York State Thruway that’s been shut down for nearly two days. “It’s bad; it’s definitely an emergency situation out there,” said Kendra Hems, president of the New York State Motor Truck Association. “I don’t know what the exact number is, but they have vehicles that are basically...
Electronic log rule is a year away
Eric Miller Transport Topics November 19, 2014 View the original piece The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration does not expect to publish its final rule mandating the use of electronic logging devices for carriers until Sept. 30, 2015, the agency said in its November significant rulemakings report. The rule would not be effective until two years after it is finalized. Other regulatory projections affecting truckers: • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will...
Most Big LTLs make Big Profits
SCDigest Editorial Staff Supply Chain Digest November 19, 2014 View the original piece We're finishing up this week SCDigest's regularly quarterly review of the results and comments from leading transportation carriers by mode, this week for the less-than-truckload carriers, as the last of them finished up their Q3 2014 earnings reports in the last few weeks. Last week, we covered the US rail carriers (see Rail Carriers Enjoy Mostly Blow Out Q3 on Strong Volume Growth)...
Louisville UPS pilots taking complaints to company's investors
Gil Corsey WDRB.com November 14, 2014 View the original piece Louisville UPS pilots are taking their complaints to the company's investors. The company's pilots placed a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, pushing for a new contract. Click here to read more at WDRB.com
Freight Groups Ask White House for West Coast Port Talks Mediator
Rip Watson Transport Topics November 12, 2014 View the original piece More than 100 groups that are concerned about the direction of newly contentious West Coast port contract talks asked President Obama to name a federal mediator to foster a settlement. “While the parties to the negotiation stated earlier this year that they would continue operations throughout the negotiations, we have seen crisis levels of congestion at the ports since September,” said the letter signed...
Boston’s parking attendants unionizing
Katie Johnston The Boston Globe November 12, 2014 View the original piece Parking attendants around Boston, many of them from East Africa, say they face third-world conditions performing one of the faceless jobs of a first-world economy: parking cars for office workers and visitors in Boston’s booming downtown. Paid just a dollar or two above minimum wage, the attendants say they are confined to tiny booths, alternately freezing or sweltering with the weather and enduring...
Rate hikes, more tonnage boost net income, revenue at ArcBest
The City Wire Staff The City Wire November 03, 2014 View the original piece Third quarter net income for Fort Smith-based ArcBest was $19.618 million, well ahead of the $13.982 million in the same quarter of 2013, and thanks in large part to an almost 10% gain in ABF Freight revenue. Per share earnings of 72 cents missed the consensus estimate of 75 cents. Excluding a one-time charge for a pension settlement, the per share...
Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay
David Bacon In These Times November 01, 2014 View the original piece SAN LEANDRO, CA—Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination. One group voted to unionize, and another, already union members, walked out on strike. "They think we're insignificant people," declares striker Dinora Jordan. "They don't think we count and don't value our work....
With Supreme Court case pending, UPS reverses policy on pregnant workers
Brigid Schulte The Washington Post October 29, 2014 View the original piece This week United Parcel Service sent a memo to employees announcing a change in policy for pregnant workers: starting January 1, the company will offer temporary light duty positions not just to workers injured on the job, which is current policy, but to pregnant workers who need it as well. “UPS takes pride in attaining and maintaining best practices in the area of...
UPS Changes Pregnancy Policy, Will Try to Offer Lighter-Duty Jobs
Michele Fuetsch Transport Topics October 29, 2014 View the original piece UPS is changing its policy with respect to pregnant employees and will try to accommodate them with light-duty work. The accommodations will be effective Jan. 1, and the policy “will serve to strengthen UPS’s commitments to treating all workers fairly and supporting women in the workplace,” UPS said. The announcement was made to employees and appended to a brief that UPS filed with the...