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Senators ask GAO to assess autonomous trucks’ potential to displace workers
In the wake of the FMCSA’s Monday listening session on regulating the highly automated driving environment expected in the future, Senators Susan Collins and Jack Reed request GAO study the issue of job displacement — more commentary from the session explored here.
April 27, 2017
Business
EEOC orders Celadon to pay former driver applicants $200k in disability discrimination case
Celadon violated federal law by subjecting applicants to medical exams before offering them a job, the EEOC said in its charges against the carrier, as applicants are protected from such screenings by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The medical exams were also inconsistent with DOT protocol.
August 7, 2015
Business
DOT giving $1 million to train veterans for trucking, driving jobs
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has allotted $1 million in grant money to help train veterans for jobs in the transportation industry, it announced July 3, and specifically to become truck drivers, says U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.
July 3, 2013
Business
For-hire trucking adds 7,300 jobs in May
For-hire carriers added 7,300 payroll jobs in May, up from an upwardly revised 2,700-job increase in April.
June 1, 2012
Business
Trucking loses more than 94,000 jobs in 2009
Payroll employment at for-hire trucking companies fell by 3,300 in December, according to Department of Labor.
January 12, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Jobs in transition — in more ways than one
As with the 2001 recession, there’s been much talk of a “jobless recovery.” It peaked with two reports in early November: Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the third quarter, while unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October. Not all explanations for the productivity gain, one of the three biggest in the last 30 years, carry […]
December 9, 2009
Overdrive Extra
For the newly jobless, driving never looked so good
Recent trucking news has reported the reversal of the driver shortage, which had appeared to be, as Jesus said of the poor, with us forever. Friday’s Wall Street Journal highlights how the competition for drivers is worse than ever partly because of people recently unemployed from car plants or construction and desperate for a paycheck. […]
February 27, 2009
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