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In a monthly employment report that was mostly considered disappointing in its estimate of jobs as a whole, the data for truck transportation was solidly positive. Seasonally adjusted truck ...

The trucking industry’s “driver shortage” debate has persisted for decades. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) claims a chronic shortage since 1987, citing nine studies. Yet, researchers and ...

A new study from the U.C. Berkley Center for Labor Research and Education says autonomous trucking technology could eliminate nearly 300,000 driving jobs, with the greatest impact landing across ...

Do you yearn to spend your days on the open road with nothing but your thoughts and the roar of the engine? Then you must be a born trucker. However, deciding to become a pro trucker is just the first ...

Jobs in the trucking sector may be showing signs of stabilization, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The December trucking jobs report showed a loss of 800 jobs on a seasonally adjusted ...

Trucking added 1,500 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9%, an almost eight-year low, the Labor Department reported Feb. 5. The transportation and warehousing sector, which ...

The collapse of Montgomery Transport in Birmingham, Alabama, has sent shockwaves across America's logistics network. The ...

This story appears in the Feb. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. The trucking industry lost nearly 25,000 jobs in January, the highest monthly total ever except during a national strike in 1994, ...

The trucking industry has been battling challenging circumstances so far in 2019 – which includes the loss of thousands of positions last month. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ...