Truck lease purchase deals come under heavy fire at MATS and in court

Editor’s note: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will not release a recording of the panel hearing but is eventually expected to release notes on the Truck Leasing Task Force’s website.

The Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), created by the Department of Transportation to study leases that independent owner-operators work under with trucking companies, has had four public meetings.

But it was at the most recent one, at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky, that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-lease-purchase-deals-come-under-heavy-fire-at-mats-and-in-court

Driver recruitment wars rage at MATS, booth after booth after booth

LOUISVILLE–Imagine walking through aisle after aisle of display booths and seeing multiple signs that say, in so many words,  “We want you bad.” But it’s not the same “We want you” with Uncle Sam’s finger pointing straight ahead. 

That was the scene at the Mid-America Trucking Show here, the first one since 2019, where all the endless online and radio advertisements from trucking companies looking for drivers come to life. There may be 100,000 carriers in the U.S., so they clearly aren’t all...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/driver-recruitment-wars-rage-at-mats-booth-after-booth-after-booth

La guerra por la contratación de conductores se recrudece en MATS, stand tras stand tras stand

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Imagínese caminando por un pasillo tras otro de cabinas de exhibición y viendo múltiples carteles que dicen, con muchas palabras, “Te queremos mal”. Pero no es el mismo “Te queremos” con el dedo del Tío Sam apuntando al frente.  

Esa fue la escena en el Mid-America Trucking Show de aquí, el primero desde 2019, donde todos los interminables anuncios online y de radio de las empresas de transporte que buscan conductores cobran vida. Puede que haya 100.000 transportistas en...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/la-guerra-por-la-contratacion-de-conductores-se-recrudece-en-mats-stand-tras-stand-tras-stand

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