September 15, 2011: A Teamster candidate challenging James P. Hoffa took a swing at YRC Worldwide’s board of directors this week, attacking increases in cash retainers for directors. Sandy Pope, president of Teamster Local 805 in New York City, wants YRC’s new board of directors to drop the increase in cash retainers and bonuses. Click here to read more at The Journal of Commerce.

September 1, 2011: YRC Worldwide Inc. is giving the members of its board of directors a raise. The Overland Park-based trucking company (Nasdaq: YRCW), which has been trying to recover from a recessionary brush with bankruptcy, said in a late Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will pay its board members an annual cash retainer of $75,000, plus $10,000 a year extra for committee chairmen and $15,000 extra for the head...

August 25, 2011: U.S. trucking companies may face a 30 percent surge in wage bills by 2014 as rising demand for freight shipments threatens to push the industry’s driver shortage to the longest on record. The current shortfall will double in a year to about 300,000 full-time positions, or 10 percent of the workforce, said Noel Perry, managing director at consultant FTR Associates in Nashville, Indiana. A three-year deficiency would top the 300,000 vacancies lasting...