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Global Shipping Fleet Braces for Chaos of $60 Billion Fuel Shock

Little more than 2½ years from now, the global fleet of merchant ships will have to reduce drastically how much sulfur their engines belch into the atmosphere.

April 5, 2017

Rosen Shuns TIGER Grants at Senate Hearing

During his Senate nomination hearing March 29, President Trump’s pick for the No. 2 spot at the U.S. Department of Transportation would not endorse an Obama-era infrastructure grants program popular with states.

April 3, 2017

Bipartisan Support for Road Funds, Tax Reform Likely, ATA Exec Says

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Advancing an infrastructure funding measure alongside a tax reform package in the coming weeks is likely to garner bipartisan backing from policymakers and support from the freight industry, officials representing trucking executives and states’ transportation directors said last week.

April 3, 2017

Trucking Executives Discuss How Millennials Are Shifting Industry’s Workforce Dynamics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As baby boomers retire, more companies are hiring millennials to be truck drivers, presenting new challenges to address the differences between the generations in how they view life and work.

April 3, 2017

Schneider Initial Stock Sale May Spur Growth in Truckload, Intermodal, Analysts Predict

Schneider’s forthcoming initial public offering may close a chapter on the company’s long- standing family ownership, but it will expand the motor carrier’s ability to broaden its horizons, industry analysts said.

April 3, 2017

NTSB Encourages Fleets to Root Out Bad Drivers

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A top National Transportation Safety Board official called on motor carriers to do a better job of identifying drivers in their employ with bad driving habits.

April 3, 2017

GAO Upholds XPO Protest of Military Freight Contract

A multibillion-dollar contract recently awarded to Crowley Logistics to handle freight shipments for the Department of Defense is being reopened after the Government Accountability Office upheld a challenge filed by XPO Logistics Government Services.

April 3, 2017

Execs Offer Mixed Assessment of Freight Market Since January

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At the end of the first quarter, there are signs of optimism in the economy but also caution about the sustainability of the momentum, according to economic analysts and trucking executives at the 2017 Truckload Carriers Association conference.

April 3, 2017

ELDs Hot Topic at MATS as December Mandate Looms

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Truck makers returned to the Mid-America Trucking Show, to varying degrees, and while many things seemed familiar, the specter of new competition also loomed over North America’s largest annual truck show.

April 3, 2017