The Safer Highways and Increased Performance for Interstate Trucking (SHIP IT) Act would offer truck drivers up to $10,000 in tax credits and training incentives as part of new bipartisan legislation aimed at retaining and recruiting drivers. The SHIP IT…
READ MORE >US businesses big and small made a fresh push for the Biden administration to remove Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods as the government considers a formal extension on the hundreds of billions of dollars in levies (source: AJOT).
READ MORE >A final ground handling agent at Chicago O’Hare International Airport has reached a required labor agreement and will continue cargo operations, sparing several cargo airlines from potential service interruptions. The Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) on Tuesday notified freighter operators…
READ MORE >A Sustained Import Dwell Fee will go into effect at Port Houston on February 1, 2023, to help maintain fluidity and address long-term dwell. The $45 fee will be charged per unit per day starting on the eighth day after…
READ MORE >Following an article published in FreightWaves, the Airforwarders Association says that it is engaging with cargo handlers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and arranging a neutral meeting with city officials to avoid any freight handling disruption that could adversely impact…
READ MORE >The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to approve a bill to block a potentially crippling railroad strike and to mandate paid sick time for rail workers (source: Reuters).
READ MORE >The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote Wednesday to block a potential rail strike after President Joe Biden warned of the dire economic consequences of a rail disruption that could happen as early as Dec. 9 (source: Reuters).
READ MORE >In addition to rules about their schedules, 115,000 US railroad employees, represented by 12 unions across more than 30 railroads, are also upset about working short-handed during the pandemic with wages frozen at 2019 levels. Railroaders also resented management's attempts…
READ MORE >The freight railroads and BMWED have extended their current cooling off period until at least December 4 to align with all other rail unions yet to ratify their tentative agreements. As a result of this agreement, members of the two…
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