Penske Logistics plans to slash 337 warehouse and other workers in Kinloch, Missouri, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) recently filed. The layoffs come from “losing a contract for warehousing services for supermarket chain Schnucks.”
A trade war with China and possible upcoming tariffs compelled businesses to “continue frontloading inventories, creating more trucking jobs in April, albeit temporarily.” According to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “more than 1,000 truck driver jobs were added to the economy in April. This was the fourth monthly increase in the past six months, which was preceded by a nearly one-year downward spiral.”
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Long-haul truck drivers spend a lot of time on the road and hence face “significant health challenges due to physical and psychological stress — including fatigue, social isolation and time pressures — that impact their overall well-being.” With that being said, studies show that these drivers are “twice as likely as those in other occupations to use tobacco cigarettes as a coping mechanism.”
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