Total Quality Logistics, the second-largest freight brokerage firm in North America, just announced that it’s “expanding its presence in St. Louis, investing $370,000 and creating 85 new jobs.” With this expansion, Total Quality Logistics will get aid from the Missouri Works program, “a tool that helps companies expand and retain workers by providing access to capital through withholdings or tax credits for job creation.” Read more…
Building from the “Phase 2” greenhouse gas standards established in 2016, the EPA “is proposing a new and stronger set of greenhouse standards for heavy-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and 2032.” Coming hot on the heels of the EPA’s new national clean air standards to decrease smog-and-soot forming emissions, trucking professionals are decrying the move as a “regulatory blitz on small-business truckers.” Read more…
With 16,800 trailer units having been booked during March, preliminary trailer orders “decreased sequentially and were lower against longer-term comparisons,” though overall demand is solid, according to ACT Research. Jennifer Mcnealy, director of commercial vehicle market research and publications at ACT Research, claims: “orders pulling back in March is a month earlier than normal seasonality would suggest, but near record-level order backlogs are easy to point to in explaining away the earlier-than-expected deceleration.” Read more…
Neal Brothers Charleston, Inc., a North-Carolina-based logistics company, has announced a $9.48 million dollar expansion that “would create 10 new jobs in the first year.” The cargo handling and export company’s main North American office has been calling North Charleston home for more than 30 years. Read more…
The Minnesota Trucking Association has launched “a coordinated, ongoing social media campaign to encourage young people and their parents, mid-career changers, womens, and under-represented populations to consider a career in the Minnesota trucking industry.” The impetus for the campaign was the fact that finding drivers and technicians had become a huge challenge for the state. Read more…
Despite critical, common challenges, trucking professionals are increasingly happy with their choice of career according to a new Truckstop commissioned survey of 500 U.S.-based owner-operator truck drivers. The report goes on to say that “close to two-thirds (65%) of owner-operators surveyed are currently extremely satisfied with their job and more than half (57%) say they are much more satisfied now compared to in 2021.” Read more…
According to the industry’s annual report card on industry attitudes, “recruiting and keeping qualified workers remains the top challenge for supply chain executives.” According to the survey which was taken at the end of 2022, there will be investment “geared towards creating high-productivity roles that will appeal to people entering the field or transferring from another field.” Read more…
Many businesses who rely on online job applications, including trucking jobs, are missing out on applicants who may not be as tech savvy as others. With almost all jobs requiring online applications now, job seekers with no computer, internet access, or “the digital-know-how to submit an application” are facing an uphill battle, despite many being suitably qualified. Read more…
The Next Generation in Trucking Foundation “is a grassroots nonprofit trade association with the focus of raising awareness about trucking careers, as well as partnering with and creating high school trucking programs.” The company hopes to offer a top-notch education that results in “gainful employment,” improving the lives of many young job seekers, and offering them a sense of independence they might not have had otherwise. Read more…
