(Natural News) American transportation and logistics giant Ryder System Inc, commonly known as Ryder, has announced that it will be laying off 801 employees after the company lost work at a factory in Austin, Texas. A total of 801 Ryder employees at the Applied Material site, a semiconductor plant in Austin, will lose their jobs. […]

(Natural News) The prices of used trucks are falling across almost all years and models as new truck manufacturers are starting to overcome supply chain disruptions. This comes from preliminary data on used-truck activity for October published by ACT Research. The researchers noted that sales involving used Class 8 trucks – trucks with a gross […]

(Natural News) Freight companies are now preparing for what executives are calling a “muted peak season” as diminishing shipping demand from overstocked retailers ripples across the country’s shipping markets. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the changes are cascading across freight operations, cutting into inbound shipping volumes and bringing fewer goods onto the roads. […]

(Natural News) The current season is turning to be a dull one for the transportation-logistics industry as economic activities in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California, the heart of U.S. supply chain congestion, began to dampen. This led to a massive drop in the cost of shipping containers. In September 2021, […]

(Natural News) Small business truckers who rely on CoreFund Capital for factoring their accounts receivable are now struggling to stay in business following the abrupt closure of the company. Factoring companies purchase outstanding invoices from companies with slower-paying customers to provide them with immediate cash flow. CoreFund offers same-day factoring to trucking companies throughout the […]

(Natural News) Canadian farmers and activists launched convoy rallies across the country on July 23 in support of Dutch farmers, who have been protesting against their government’s climate change policy since June. Most, if not all, protests are being organized by the group Freedom Fighters Canada, which aims to end government overreach. The event used […]

(Natural News) Truckers tied up traffic and blocked several freeways near the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach on July 13 as they protested California’s “gig worker” law, which reclassified many independent contractors as employees. The truckers held up signs with slogans such as “AB5 Kills Dreams,” referring to Assembly Bill 5 from 2019 […]

(Natural News) The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week as a draconian new law, “AB-5” kicks in: (emphasis ours) In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact […]

(Natural News) A Supreme Court decision may force over 70,000 truck owner-operators in California to stop driving, creating another choke point in the already stressed West Coast logistics networks. The AB5 law restricts the use of independent contractors and will soon be enforced against the trucking industry after the court declined to hear their appeal. […]

(Natural News) Farmers are now struggling to make ends meet while producing food as diesel prices continue to climb. Pennsylvania farmer Kyle Kotzmoyer told state lawmakers he could not afford the diesel fuel to run his tractor, which is hooked up to his corn plant. He warned the Pennsylvania Legislature that food may no longer be […]