FedEx Ground Package System Inc. has agreed to pay drivers in 20 states $240 million to settle lawsuits claiming the second-largest U.S. parcel delivery company misclassified them as independent contractors, it said on June 16. The settlement, if approved, would be divided among 12,000 drivers, some of whom would receive tens of thousands of dollars, Beth Ross, lead lawyer for […]
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A former Knight Transportation truck driver killed one man and injured two others before committing suicide at a Knight facility in Katy, Texas, according to a Click2Houston report. Armed with a shotgun and a pistol, the shooter, who was identified as ex-Knight employee Marion Guy Williams, walked into the facility and shot and killed his former supervisor Mike Dawid before […]
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According to a report credited to Bloomberg News, the Labor Department has declared that the trucking industry in United States of America added 7,400 jobs in June as the unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.3% as more people left the labour force.
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In 2014, trucking brought in over $700 billion — the highest revenue ever for the industry, according to an American Trucking Associations report. The report, American Trucking Trends, compiled data on the trucking industry’s size and performance. In it, ATA found that the $700.4 billion generated by trucking last year accounted for 80.3% of all freight transportation spending.
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A Carlisle man suffered serious injuries when he was run over by the cab of an articulated lorry in a haulage yard where he worked at Stainton, near Penrith. On Tuesday 13 May 2015, Carlisle Magistrates’ Court heard Graham Robinson was working as a transport manager for The Haulage (Holdings) Organisation Ltd, which is the transport arm of the Omega […]
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