A U.S. dockworkers’ union and their employer group will meet in New Jersey on Jan. 7 with just over a week to hammer out a deal on a new labor contract.
January 7, 2025Trucking Business News
Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.
Dockworkers to Restart Talks With Jobs-for-Automation Offer
Bosch Unveils Plans to Expand Wrong-Way Driving Warning
LAS VEGAS — Multinational technology company Bosch on Jan. 6 revealed plans to expand its cloud-based wrong-way driver alert system by partnering with SiriusXM.
January 6, 2025Trump Rejects Claims of Scaling Back Tariff Policy
What now seems certain is that Trump — who sees tariffs as a way to rebuild American manufacturing and make other countries hew to his policy priorities — is preparing a major package.
January 6, 2025Deere’s Autonomous Fleet Expanding to Orchards and Quarries
The challenge to ease the burden on growers is prompted by rising demand for food and materials, with an increasing world population but a shrinking number of farmers and laborers.
January 6, 2025Why 2025 Could Be the Year of the Corporate Spinoff
Shares in companies that are spun off from existing firms tend to outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 10% over the subsequent 18-24 months, data compiled by Trivariate show.
January 6, 2025Canada’s Trudeau Announces Resignation as Prime Minister
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Jan. 6 after nearly a decade in power, bowing to discontent over his leadership and turmoil within his government.
January 6, 2025NYC Congestion Pricing Gets Quiet Start
New York City kicked off the first congestion pricing program in the U.S., part of an effort to reduce the number of vehicles in the world’s most traffic-clogged urban area.
January 6, 2025Former TuSimple CEO Hou Scores Legal Victory Against Company
A Texas Business Court judge rejected TuSimple’s request for a restraining order and injunctions against the onetime autonomous trucking pioneer’s founder and his latest venture.
January 6, 2025Critical $100M Rail Bridge Opens at Texas-Mexico Border
A key rail route that connects Texas to Mexico has now opened after Canadian Pacific Kansas City unveiled the new Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge in December.
January 6, 2025Winter Storm Makes Travel Dangerous Across Nation
A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast.
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