Report: Country’s largest carriers outsource more than 40% of contracted freight

A report released last month by shipper-carrier connection platform LaneAxis indicates that of the 13 publicly traded carriers it studied, 42 percent of freight bookings are eventually pushed to third-party carriers.

Teamsters’ LA-Long Beach port driver organizing intensifies | JOC.com

Teamsters have launched a week-long series of job actions involving drayage companies that serve the ports, intermodal rail yards and warehouses as the union seeks a "radical restructuring" of the industry, according to a union spokesperson.

Survey underscores aging driver problem, sheds light on job’s challenges

The survey results underscore the aging driver workforce dilemma. It is a problem today, but it soon will be the biggest crisis in the trucking industry as the demand for drivers continues to increase and their average age rises with every flip of the calendar.

Trucking hiring shrinks as warehousing continues gains | JOC.com

The U.S. employment numbers for May, released Friday, highlight a rift in transportation hiring: Warehousing is gaining jobs at a healthy rate, while trucking is losing them.

Getting firing right : The HR perspective | Manish Kumar | LinkedIn

Employment termination has often been a challenging process for managers to execute. But rather than looking at firing in a cumbersome manner, HR today is equipped with tools and techniques to assist both managers and employees to make the best out of it.

44 Resume Writing Tips

Having a solid and effective resume can greatly improve your chances of landing that dream job. There are several websites with tips around the web, but most bring just a handful of them. We wanted to put them all together in a single place, and that is what you will find below: 44 resume writing tips.

U.S. job creation weak, even as unemployment rate falls to 4.7% - Jun. 3, 2016

The Verizon strike impacted the jobs data but does not explain the sharp decline. The U.S. economy only added a mere 38,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7%.

China's Debt Load Is (Much) Higher Than Previously Thought, Goldman Says - Bloomberg

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