This story appears in the April 11 print edition of Transport Topics. The number of people employed in trucking rose 3% in March, compared with a year ago, to a seasonally adjusted 1.27 million, the ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] WASHINGTON — America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added a solid 263,000 jobs — a dose of encouraging news that ...

Jobs in the trucking sector may be showing signs of stabilization, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The December trucking jobs report showed a loss of 800 jobs on a seasonally adjusted ...

Trucking has an employment problem, which means we are short of both drivers and technicians. In order to attract people to our industry, we are going to have to up our hiring game. The job ...

(CNN) -- Since Sunday, Mark Roper, a truck driver for 32 years, has been out of a job, along with 30,000 of his fellow workers at now-defunct transportation company Yellow. Roper, who turns 59 in ...

This is part of FleetOwner's Fleets Explained, a Trucking 101 series to break down aspects of the trucking and fleet management industries. You can read more from the ...