60% of organizations experienced wage inflation in Q2: Gartner

The trucking industry may be benefiting from high freight demand, but fleets have reported significant costs associated with labor constraints.

By Jane Thier • Oct. 8, 2021

What trucking execs say about the driver shortage — and 3 ways they're trying to solve it

While fleets have been similarly hampered by the recruitment environment, they're leaning on various solutions to ease the capacity squeeze.

By S.L. Fuller • Oct. 8, 2021

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Top 5 stories from Trucking Dive

These five stories detail the top trends and issues facing the trucking and transportation industry. 

By Trucking Dive staff

Owner-operator pay breaks records in 'on-fire' freight market: ATBS

Freight booms usually go bust as bigger fleets flood the market with capacity. But supply chain woes could push this surge through all of 2022, one expert said.

By Jim Stinson • Sept. 29, 2021

Transportation, utilities anticipate more than 50% payroll growth: report

Trucking companies have been grasping at ways to draw in more talent, including financial incentives and pet "co-pilots."

By Caroline Colvin • Sept. 28, 2021

How fleets with an owner-operator model can go greener

Trucking companies that rely on purchased transportation get creative to work through sustainability challenges.

By Amanda Loudin • Sept. 27, 2021

Employers turn to reskilling amid hiring woes

The pandemic may have forced employers to reexamine long-held myths about training employees on a new skill.

By Kathryn Moody • Sept. 27, 2021

Irked by vaccine mandate, large trucking firms speak out

The American Trucking Associations filed a lawsuit against the mandate, citing its "devastating impacts on the supply chain and the economy."

By Jim Stinson • Updated Nov. 10, 2021

Court: Trucking company's strength test discriminated against women for driver positions

The onus is on employers to prove tests are job-related, especially as the trucking industry tries to encourage more women to join the workforce.

By Katie Clarey • Sept. 20, 2021

Truck drivers have shown up for us. Here's how we can show up for them.

In the constant stream of global disruptions, drivers have been the silver lining, rising to extraordinary challenges, writes C.H. Robinson's Mac Pinkerton.

By Mac Pinkerton • Sept. 15, 2021

Vaccine mandate adds another wrinkle to trucking, warehouse hiring crunch

Logistics experts said truck drivers could move from large carriers to smaller ones, or become owner-operators.

By Max Garland • Sept. 14, 2021

Long Beach port offers drivers traffic alerts via text to fight congestion

The free Truck Alert system aims to assuage some frustrations resulting from a deluge of imports.

By Shefali Kapadia , S.L. Fuller • Sept. 10, 2021

Feds to require large employers mandate coronavirus vaccine or weekly negative tests

The requirements will impact some 80 million private-sector workers, in addition to many federal employees and contractors, the White House said.

By Ryan Golden • Sept. 10, 2021

Dollar General offers $5K bonuses in push to recruit truck drivers

This follows the company's recent announcement that it would begin letting drivers bring a dog or cat with them in the cab.

By Sam Silverstein • Sept. 7, 2021

OEMs make the economic case for autonomous trucks

Driverless trucks bring safety and improved fuel efficiency to the industry, according to Waymo and TuSimple executives.

By Jim Stinson • Sept. 3, 2021

CH Robinson levies drayage congestion fee at major US ports

Ports and the drayage providers that serve them have been walloped by a spike in volume and a lack of labor and equipment to quickly handle it.

By Max Garland • Sept. 3, 2021

Cowan Systems' $15K bonus shows the gravity of driver capacity constraints

The carrier ups the recruitment ante with the possibility for drivers to earn up to $20,000 in incentives.

By Jim Stinson • Aug. 25, 2021

Driver turnover loses stability in hot trucking market

Fleets take retention and recruitment seriously, offering higher pay and more transparency to satisfy drivers.

By Jim Stinson • Aug. 20, 2021

Sysco launches truck driver school to ramp up recruitment efforts

Sysco Driver Academy is intended to bolster the company's ability to turn its warehouse workers into drivers.

By S.L. Fuller • Aug. 16, 2021

Talent investments pay off, Gartner report says

S&P 500 companies that focused on "targeted talent investments" in 2020 outpaced those that just focused on cost reduction.

By Caroline Colvin • Aug. 16, 2021

Biden says 'long COVID' can be a disability under the ADA

Breathing problems, brain fog, chronic pain and fatigue "can sometimes rise to the level of a disability," the president said.

By Katie Clarey • Aug. 5, 2021

Pay tactics are distributors' main choices for recruiting, retaining drivers

Distributors cited incentive compensation as a more common strategy than above-market salaries, in a survey by ​the International Foodservice Distributors Association.

By S.L. Fuller • Aug. 2, 2021

Transport companies need discipline in the art of selling

Unless your trucking firm is in a one-of-a-kind category, you face stiff competition that requires a productive and effective sales team.

By Lanny Fleming • July 28, 2021

The driver shortage isn't just a long-haul problem. It's a drayage problem.

Port jams and congested supply chains make drayage life grueling for those on the ground, and drivers are fleeing in droves.

By Nimesh Modi • July 27, 2021

Fleets express 'strong demand' for human talent even as they digitize tasks

Transport firms said the perfect balance is 44% humans and 56% technology, according to a Coyote Logistics survey. 

By S.L. Fuller • July 26, 2021

New association aims to build pipeline of truck drivers, technicians

The Next Generation in Trucking Association has a nationally registered apprenticeship program, which can help the industry retain drivers.

By S.L. Fuller • July 16, 2021