June 1, 2011: UPS is constantly trying to counter increasing fuel prices. This is likely true with every company in transportation, but UPS recently announced and demo’d its mostly plastic delivery truck that’s 40% more fuel efficient than the current. By ditching the sheet metal for plastic, these trucks are said to be 1,000 lbs lighter. This allows for a smaller diesel engine, which lends greatly to the lower fuel consumption. Click here to read...

May 10, 2011: Joe Korziuk has spent 23 years working for U.P.S. washing trucks, delivering packages and driving tractor trailers. Though he loves the job, it has a downside: At 45, he has had surgery on both knees and a shoulder, developed bulging disks in his back and sustained a concussion when boxes fell on him. “It’s a direct result of the job,” Mr. Korziuk said. “They’re always harping on you and pushing you to...

May 10, 2011: Forty-two House members joined Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) in a May 4 letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood blasting a proposed North American Free Trade Agreement cross-border trucking program with Mexico. However, Emergency Committee for American Trade President Calman Cohen May 6 told DOT in a comment letter that instituting the pilot program would show a commitment to improving U.S.-Mexico trade ties as well as advance the president's...

May 6, 2011: Check out this evaluation of Sandy Pope’s campaign for General President and program to restore Teamster Power–and Hoffa’s refusal to discuss his record. Click here to read Can Sandy Pope Revitalize the Teamsters? in this week’s The Nation magazine. Click here to read Pope Vows to Revive Teamsters’ Flagging Freight Division, in the current edition of DC Velocity. Click here to read Would These Guys Buy Jimmy Hoffa a Drink? in the...

May 3, 2011: YRC Worldwide (YRCW), the financially ailing second-largest less-than-truckload (LTL) company which has lost in excess of $2.7 billion the last four years, says it has reached another “milestone” in its long-awaited restructuring plan now scheduled for completion in July. Under terms of its latest debt swap plan, supported by more than 95 percent of its senior secured lenders, shareholders will hold less than 2.5 percent of YRCW stock, which has been battered...

May 2, 2011: Sandy Pope’s campaign for Teamster President is featured in the May issue of New York magazine. “These days, there’s a sense of anger and betrayal among many Teamsters,” the article reports. “If elected, Pope plans to get back to basics: stop writing checks to politicians and instead use the money to recruit more new members, target workers at nonunionized competitors, and end what she sees as Hoffa’s autocratic ways.” Click here to...

April 27, 2011: United Parcel Service Inc.’s next- day package shipments rose in the first quarter as business customers refilled stockpiles to meet higher demand from the recovering economy, Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn said. Boxes shipped using the UPS’s Next Day Air service climbed in the “mid-single digits” as companies sought to restock goods faster after adapting to leaner inventory during the recession, Kuehn said in a telephone interview. Click here to read more...

April 26, 2011: The top two officials of a Fullerton-based Teamsters Union affiliate quit while under investigation for financial improprieties, The Register has learned. A trustee has taken over 6,600-member District Council 2 and will run it for at least six months. Click here to read more at The Orange County Register.

April 22, 2011: Sandy Pope appeared on national TV on April 21 to stand up for good union jobs and against corporate union busting by Boeing. The interview came on the heels of a charge by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that Boeing illegally moved production of its new 787 airliner in retaliation for a strike by the machinists’ union. Click here to view.

April 21, 2011: In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina. In its complaint, the labor board said that Boeing’s decision to transfer a second...