Bid to Lower Driver Age Stirring Debate
The Drive-Safe Act was introduced in Congress earlier this year to lower the age minimum to become a truck driver from 21 to 18. While industry leaders say the bill could help ease the truck driver…
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Demands on Trucking Driving Up Rates, Analysts Say
The tightest trucking market in years is testing the limits of an otherwise well-conditioned U.S. economic expansion. It’s also tinder for accelerating inflation should the capacity constraints spark moves by companies to pass on those higher delivery costs.
ATA Sees 5 Trucking Trends
The trucking industry handles freight for a number of other industries to ensure that companies and customers across the nation get the materials and products they need. “For truckers and other people in the industry, it’s important to stay on top of upcoming trends to ensure that they understand all the rules of the road,’’ according to American Trucking Associations (ATA).
Driver shortage slowing oil, gas extraction
hen the price of oil collapsed in 2014 and disrupted drilling operations all across Texas’s massive Permian Basin shale formation, truckers were among those hardest hit. Rendered unnecessary by the slump in output, they...
Bill would legalize teenage truck drivers
Are Teenage Truck Drivers the Answer to the Truck Driver Shortage? Trucking groups are backing legislation (DRIVE Safe Act) that would allow truck drivers younger than 21 years old to cross state borders to…
Driver Shortage expected to Hike Food Costs, Experts Predict
Driver shortage driving up food cost he truck driver shortage is beginning to slow the nation’s transportation chain and increase the cost of food, according to transportation and grocery officials. Trucks move about 70...
Driver Shortage Hindering Oil Production
ermian’s production growth – the main driver of the second shale revolution as oil prices crept higher over the past 12 months — may be limited not by geological or technological constraints, but by...
