10 hiring experts have given their thoughts on the most important short- and long-term benefits for employers to hire students, recent graduates, and others early in their careers for warehouse and logistics roles. Their ideas include: building partnerships with community colleges, tapping into disability service organizations, hosting on-site open houses, and many more.
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It’s common knowledge that it is extremely important in how you start going about your new trucking job. After all, “you only get one chance to make a first impression.” This includes your conduct, your clothes, your driving ability and even your attention to safety — “it’s all on display during the first days at a new job.” But it’s important to keep the following in mind: “These qualities are also on display on your LAST day at a job.”
President Donald Trump jolted the logistics industry on August 15 by enlarging his steel and aluminum tariffs to include “more than 400 consumer items that contain the metals, such as motorcycles and tableware. Customs brokers and importers in the U.S. were given little notice to account for the change, which went into effect Aug. 18 and did not exclude goods in transit.”
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The NCI, National Carriers Inc., is announcing three more finalists for their Driver of the Year award. Ed Kentner, director of media, exclaims: “whether operating a company truck, a leased truck, or owning a truck, National Carriers appreciates these three outstanding delivery experts… each have exceptional safety records and put the motoring public well-being in the forefront of all they do. Together these men uphold the high standards of the ‘Elite’ fleet.”’
The quarter 2 2025 Driver Recruiting and Retention Data Download report found that “the pool of truck drivers declined in the second quarter even as the number of job postings grew.” The Professional Driver Agency and Conversion Interactive Agency put forth the report, which also stated that “67% of carriers are expecting to grow their fleet in the next 12 months. Read more…
Trucker Path and The Trucker Media Group recently announced their fourth annual National Truck Driver Appreciation Sweepstakes (NTDAS). U.S. truck drivers with valid commercial driver’s licenses can put their names in the sweepstakes from August 4 to September 12, 2025. Chris Oliver, CMO at Trucker Path, proudly exclaimed: “the hard work, dedication and contributions of all U.S. commercial truck drivers should not go unnoticed… with the National Truck Driver Appreciation Sweepstakes, sponsors show their appreciation with prizes that offer truck drivers comfort and convenience on the road. We are pleased to support this program as part of the key mission of Trucker Path.” Read more…
Over 130 union mechanics and truck drivers in Tolleson Arizona are expected to lose their jobs by the end of August after grocery colossus Kroger ended its contract with a third-party transportation provider. For twenty plus years, “the Tolleson distribution center has kept shelves stocked for every Fry’s food store in Arizona. The drivers and mechanics—represented by Teamsters Local 104—work for Ruan Transportation, a company contracted to handle deliveries and vehicle maintenance for Kroger-owned Fry’s and Smith’s stores.”
Truck driver jobs declined once again for the second straight month in a row, with drivers now asking themselves how many more jobs will disappear and how this will affect salaries. The latest dataset from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows “that nearly 3,000 truck driver jobs were lost in June. When revised, that means over 4,000 jobs have been cut in the past two months.” Read more…
Ryder System, with $12.6 billion in revenue, is a top provider of logistics and transportation services with more than 50,000 employees in North America running a fleet of more than 250,000 trucks. Its evolution has come a long way since it was founded in 1933 by James Ryder with a single Model A Ford truck and a $35 down payment. About a decade ago, the Ryder board wanted CEO Robert Sanchez to focus on innovation and how to progress the company beyond the core strategy and services that had kept it alive for decades. Sanchez’s answer for this had its roots in a job he worked every weekend as a teenager: scooping ice cream at Carvel.
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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.”
