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Labor Shortage Alert: How the Desperate Trucking Industry Can Find Workers
2014-09-20 18:38:18| Trucking - Topix.net
A recent survey by National Retail Systems, or NRS, a privately owned third-party logistics company, reveals interesting insights into truck drivers' job preferences, including answers to key questions like what attracts them to a job and what compels them to leave one. The results could come in handy for American trucking companies that have been spending sleepless nights trying to figure out the best ways to recruit and retain drivers even as the industry battles a severe workforce shortage.
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Trucking Stocks Doing Their Share For Transportation Sector
2014-09-19 03:30:14| Trucking - Topix.net
Heartland is just above the 24.33 buy point of a flat base . Knight is modestly above a 26.46 buy point as it trades at new highs .
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Newton in the driver's seat at the Arkansas Trucking Association
2014-09-19 02:24:51| Trucking - Topix.net
Editor's note: This is an abridged of a story published in the latest issue of Talk Business & Politics magazine. Link here for a digital version of the magazine.
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Judge could add $1M to $4.7M jury verdict against Nevada trucking firm in deadly Amtrak crash
2014-09-17 20:43:37| Railroads - Topix.net
A Nevada trucking company could be forced to pay more than $5.7 million if a judge formalizes a jury verdict that faulted one of its drivers for a fiery 2011 crash with an Amtrak train that killed six people and injured dozens. A federal jury in Reno awarded $4.5 million to Amtrak and $210,777 to Union Pacific Railroad for damages resulting from John Davis Trucking Co.'
Wit Ceo Ellen Voie receives Frank Babbitt Award for service to trucking, community
2014-09-17 11:43:20| Trucking - Topix.net
Wisconsin Association President Neal Kedzie commended Voie for her work not only in WIT and the trucking industry as a whole, but for her contributions to the community at large. Women In Trucking Founder and CEO Ellen Voie received the Frank W. Babbitt Award at the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association's annual convention last week for her "outstanding service to the association, the trucking industry and the community as a whole."
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