For-hire trucking adds 5,300 jobs in December: The for-hire trucking industry in December added 5,300 jobs, according to the Labor Department’s monthly preliminary employment report, pushing the trucking industry to another all-time employment high and continuing a now multi-year trend of steady employment growth in the trucking industry. December’s total…
Exel, the Westerville, Ohio, firm ranked No. 6 on the Transport Topics list of the Top 50 largest logistics companies in North America, has announced it is changing its name to DHL Supply Chain in 2016. The change reflects an expansion of focus “to enable a global customer experience,” the company said. “Transitioning…
Port officials in Virginia and Cuba have signed a pact expected to increase agricultural exports to the Caribbean nation, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Jan. 5. Under terms of a “memorandum of understanding,” the Virginia Port Authority and the Cuban National Port Authority will weigh commercial opportunities between the Port of…
FTR’s Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) for October declined from the previous month to a reading of minus-3.1. The SCI, which has a forward-looking aspect, will fall further in 2016 with truck freight forecasted to grow at a robust 3.6 percent. Shippers will ultimately be negatively affected by tight capacity in…
Employers: expect a bit of a shakeup at your work site in 2016, as 21 percent of employees plan to look for greener pastures. A CareerBuilder survey found that one in five employees are pledging to leave their current employers in 2016, which is a 5 percent increase since last…
