newsworthy ABF, Teamsters disclose schedules for talks on collective bargaining pact November 13, 2017 DC Velocity Staff No Comments Initial proposals exchanged in mid-December; talks begin first week of January.Read More
newsworthy Old Dominion slaps tariff charge on all shipments to and from California May 4, 2016 Mark B. Solomon No Comments $5.95 per-shipment "compliance surcharge" follows similar move by ABF in April.Read More
newsworthy ABF imposes surcharge on all shipments to and from California April 11, 2016 Mark B. Solomon No Comments $5.92 tariff fee believed in response to change in state labor law governing driver per-piece pay.Read More
newsworthy Con-way Freight to boost driver wages early next year; first big nonunion LTL trucker to act September 30, 2014 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Changes seen costing parent firm about $60 million next year, analysts say.Read More
transportation report On the right track July 7, 2014 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Thirty years since double-stack trains changed the game, intermodal folk step up their efforts to convert truck users.Read More
newsworthy Old Dominion waits in the weeds as LTL rivals make their tariff plans known April 4, 2014 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Market leader yet to announce general rate increase, even though everyone else has seemed to.Read More
newsworthy Finding LTL value: lane by lane March 12, 2014 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Con-way Freight is pushing its lane-based pricing program as a way to break free from cookie-cutter rates. The jury is still out.Read More
newsworthy At YRC, contract ratification was a matter of vote, rinse, negotiate, and repeat January 28, 2014 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Bringing dockworkers, other nondrivers to wage parity seen as key to rank-and-file vote.Read More
newsworthy YRC's unionized workers face another moment of truth December 9, 2013 Mark B. Solomon No Comments Management warns firm could cease business Feb. 1 without labor pact ratification, dissident communiqué says.Read More
newsworthy Forward and reverse: The diverging fortunes of two LTL carriers November 14, 2013 Mark B. Solomon No Comments If you don't think trucking is a two-way street, just ask YRC and ABF.Read More