Will Wal-Mart Settlement Change Truck Driver Pay For All?
Wal-Mart has recently made headlines due to a settlement in California regarding truck driver pay. If the settlement stands, could truck driver compensation models change throughout the entire industry? Wal-Mart Truck Driver Pay Settlement A federal jury has decided that Wal-Mart intentionally failed to pay hundreds of truck drivers in California. The jury awarded over $54 million in damages to the 850 current and former truck...
Detention Pay: New Laws, Same Old Issues
Last month on June 15, the U.S. Department of Transportation released an announcement of their intentions to move forward with an audit of the loading and unloading delays experienced by drivers nationwide in hopes of one day implementing a mandate for detention pay nationside. Similar to the goals of the Obama administration’s Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act and the requirements outlined therein, the recent audit...
Tired Trucking: Sleep Apnea in the Industry
If you’ve been awake and alert this past month, then you have probably heard about the latest Federal Motor Carrier Safety and Federal Railroad administrations’ series of sessions regarding sleep apnea in trucking. The sessions took place on May 12th, 17th, and 25th in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles respectively. Stakeholders and truckers from every walk of life weighed in on the FMCSA’s considerations over whether a...
Weighing In: The High Costs of Lower Emissions
By now you’ve seen the American countryside go green with the leaves of spring, however there are a few noteworthy items on our nation’s agenda with a similar color-scheme. Starting on May 2, The 2016 Advanced Clean Transportation “ACT” Expo is the largest clean transportation conference in North America held annually in Long Beach, California. This conference features over 250 exhibitors of all weight classes and alternative fuel...
Over & Out: Reasons Drivers leave the Trucking Industry
If you’re involved in the trucking industry, have a family member in the trucking industry, or even picked up a news paper in the last few years, you probably know that the trucking industry has been facing some pretty severe shortages. Some say the shortage is due to the amount of “qualified drivers” (i.e. drivers with a lot of experience), but others believe this shortage is caused partly by drivers wanting to...
The 411 on 2015’s Most Critical Issues in Trucking
For me, 2015 has flown by. I feel like it was just yesterday I was ringing in the new year and before I know it, I’ll already be giving up on another year’s overly ambitious resolutions. 2015 was a year filled with everything from a British Airlines flight that had to turn back because of “smelly poo” to the craziness of having a reality TV star thinking it’s a good idea to throw himself into the...