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Obama Signs Order to Boost Trucks’ Fuel Economy

May 26, 2010: Flanked by truck manufacturers and trucking industry executives, President Obama signed a first-of-its-kind order Friday clearing the way for medium- and heavy-duty trucks to meet more stringent fuel-economy targets. Under the order, the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency are charged with collaborating on a rule setting limits on the fuel consumed and emissions produced by large commercial vehicles beginning with the 2014 model year. Click here to read more at...

ABF TEAMSTERS VOTE NO ON CONCESSIONS

May 24, 2010: ABF Teamsters have rejected the proposed 15% wage cut, by a vote of 3,764 to 2,936, according to reports from observers at the vote count. Most large locals decisively voted No, including Chicago Locals 710 and 705, Atlanta Local 728, Carlisle Pennsylvania Local 776, Little Rock Local 878, and even Dallas Local 745, the home base of Freight Director Tyson Johnson. ABF Teamsters will remain under the NMFA contract wage, as we...

YRC Worldwide will talk with Teamsters union about pension payments

May 24, 2010: YRC Worldwide Inc. plans to talk with its union about its pension payments, which are supposed to restart early next year but may need to be delayed. The Overland Park-based trucking giant (Nasdaq: YRCW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, which has worked with YRC on roughly $2 billion worth of concessions to help keep the company in business and thousands of its members employed, have formed joint committees to “address...

Land Line Mag: Presidents Talk Cross-border Trucking

May 19, 2010: The presidents of the United States and Mexico wasted little time in their meetings before the subject of cross-border trucking came up. Mexico President Felipe Calderón is in the U.S. for a two-day visit, with many closed-door talks regarding the issues facing the United States and Mexico. In the joint press conference following the first round of meetings this morning, Calderón made it evident that the subject of cross-border trucking did come...

YRC Worldwide considers looming financial hurdles

May 4, 2010: While YRC Worldwide Inc. CEO Bill Zollars said the company is making headway in its comeback bid, he acknowledged that pension expenses loom as a hazard. “That’s the biggest single cost that would return to us in 2011,” Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said during a Tuesday conference call to discuss YRC's first-quarter earnings. Click here to read more at the Kansas City Business Journal.
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