MODEST GAINS IN 2022 FOR TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY

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According to seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the trucking industry gained around 2,100 workers in the past year. The truck transportation sector’s final year-end report showed that “there were 1,601,500 workers in the industry, up from 1,599,400 in November and 1,598,00 in October.” The DOL report goes on to say that “in 2022, average job growth in transportation and warehousing – plus 17,000 jobs – was about half the average job growth in 2021 at plus 36,000 jobs.” Read more… 

NEW LOGISTICS WAREHOUSE COMING TO INDIANA

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A new 160,000-square-foot logistics facility is set to open next month in Whitestown, Indiana, as Nevada-based Novo Logistics is set to expand its presence in the Midwest with its newest location. Jobs will be created as the company’s services include: “warehousing, multi-client warehousing, on-site logistics, contingent labor solutions, and delivery transportation for local, regional and national clients.” Read more…

TRANSPORTATION HIRING STRUGGLES COULD CONTINUE INTO 2023

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The Utah Transit Authority continues to look for bus drivers, as a tight labor market makes filling these positions a struggle. The shortage has even forced the UTA to cut back, and even eliminate, some bus routes earlier in December.  While companies like UPS, FedEx and Amazon continue to hire, “truck driving companies are having a shortage all the way around. Schools are having trouble finding school bus drivers.” Read more…

USDOT WARDS $273.9M TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS

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Through its new Rural Surface Transportation Grant program, the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $273.9 million to 12 projects that aim “to assist communities around the U.S. complete transportation projects that increase connectivity, improve safety and reliability, support regional economic growth and improve the quality of life for people living in rural areas.”  Read more… 

AR/VR TO HELP THE LOGISTICS INDUSTRY

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Virtual reality and augmented reality will soon be beneficial for warehouse workers,  as the technology can be used for “various operation purposes in the warehouse, such as put away and sorting, or so-called Vision Picking.” Vision Picking is wearable gear utilized to increase warehouse workers’ productivity, making their  jobs much easier in the process.  Read more…

AI COMES FOR THE WRITERS FIRST, NOT THE TRUCK DRIVERS

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While “experts have long imagined that blue-collar workers like truckers or factory workers would be the first to lose jobs to artificial intelligence,” with even former presidential candidate Andrew Yang suggesting that it could cause a truck driving industry catastrophe of epic proportions, it seems that many have overlooked that Artificial Intelligence could blight non-blue collar workers first, such as writers and creatives. Read more…

WOMEN BECOMING TRUCK DRIVERS IN RECORD NUMBERS

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With the pandemic wearing tons of people out, especially mothers and women in the healthcare profession, many of them are turning to the truck driving industry as a break from the grueling day-to-day of their previous professional lives. For example, Chelsea Ferguson was feeling burned out as “she was doing strenuous work cleaning patients and turning them over.  She was on her feet some days for 16 hours.” As a result, Chelsea turned to the trucking industry, as have many other women, making females in the trucker workforce at 18%, an all time high.  Read more..

HARLEY DAVIDSON ANNOUNCES NEW LOGISTICS COMPANY

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Though Harley Davidson has announced that Florida-based Comprehensive Logistics will replace their current Logistics company Syncreon, the roughly 600 employees who had handled third-party logistics for Syncreon in New York will remain in their jobs nonetheless. Paul Forberg, Comprehensive Logistics’ vice president of sales and marketing, claims: “we expect to transition 100% of them… I would say it’s more of an administrative function just to get them converted over to Comprehensive Logistics.”    Read more…

NO HOURS OF EXEMPTION FOR LIVESTOCK TRUCK DRIVERS

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has “rejected a petition from several agriculture groups asking for more Hours of Service flexibility for drivers hauling livestock and other animal goods.”  The petition had asked for the FMCSA to allow truck drivers “hauling livestock, insects, and aquatic animals, after 10 consecutive hours off duty, to drive through the 16th consecutive hour after coming on duty, and to drive a total of 15 hours during that 16-hour period.”  Read more…

EVEN MOMS LOVE TO BE TRUCK DRIVERS

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Challenging stereotypes, Clarissa Ranking, a 36-year-old mom from Charlotte, North Carolina, is a professional truck driver transporting all kinds of goods across the East Coast. From hauling diapers to TVs to canned goods, Clarissa is making $144K a year while loving her job. Ranking exclaims: “people always have this image in their mind of a truck driver being a man with a big old stomach, big old beard and wearing overalls… I love to get that expression on people’s faces like, ‘Can you really drive that?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, I got this honey.’”  Read more…