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With driver shortages across the country, training to become a trucker can be a good bet for employment.

Freight and logistics always have depended on the human touch, but technology is getting smarter and many brokers wonder if their efforts will become unnecessary.

Ryder System Inc. announced it has started to take delivery of 125 medium-duty all-electric panel vans for rent or lease, calling the vehicles the first of their kind in North America.

America’s service industries expanded in October at the fastest rate since August 2005, indicating the biggest part of the economy is gathering strength, a survey from the Institute for Supply Management showed Nov. 3

Truck technologies like telematics can seem like a bygone, presumptive conclusion, like they’re simply on all the vehicles out there. But fleets are constantly implementing and finding ways to use that and other technologies best on their own terms,

After 42 years with the same employer, Kevin Spath of West Deer, Pa., is facing the prospect of losing his job.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the extreme weather events that destroyed vital infrastructure this year in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands illustrate the need to build resilient communities.

The fact is that many motor carriers, and even some owner-operators, remain vested in preserving the “independent contractor” status option for truck drivers.

When Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. landed an advertising and marketing contract with Major League Baseball earlier this year, it was part of a long-term strategy to grow its business, representatives of the Thomasville, N.C.,-based trucking and logist…

Daphne Jefferson, deputy administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, is retiring effective Nov. 3 from her post as the No. 2 leader at the agency, an FMCSA spokesman said.