After her own experience on the open road, Jarita Frazier King decided to launch a business offering healthy pre-made meals at truck stops.
Drivers are seeking alternate income sources as their regular work grinds to a halt. Some are doing maintenance on their vehicles.
Nashville’s Yellow Freight — one of the only union shops in trucking — shut down operations in August, leaving 30,000 people without work.
Autonomous vehicle tech has advanced quite a bit, but we’re nowhere close to replacing truck drivers with AI yet ― and we probably don’t want to.
A complaint to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission alleges that these algorithms may be recreating hiring biases — unintentionally, in some cases, but still illegally.
The key to unfurling domestic supply chains may not be more truck drivers on the road, but getting them in and out of warehouses faster.
Some in the trucking industry say the mandate may exacerbate its current worker shortage.
Drivers are retiring, while the pandemic and new drug-test data sharing are keeping many from joining the ranks.
Trucking companies are boosting pay and trying to make the lifestyle more amenable to a new generation of drivers.
In the last two years, one demographic has been gravitating towards the trucking industry by the thousands: Indian-American Sikhs.
