truck driver hiring

Loaded and Rolling: Holiday trucking closures, firings and driver hirings

Central Freight Lines shuts down, U.S. Xpress fires truckload exec and ACT releases driver hiring data

Central Freight Lines to shut down after 96 years
(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Central Freight Lines to shut down after 96 years

Central Freight Lines is shutting down after 96 years in operation. The LTL carrier based in Waco, Texas, has over 2,100 employees including 1,325 drivers, 1,600 power units and approximately 820 office staff at the Waco company headquarters. This announcement makes...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-holiday-trucking-closures-firings-and-driver-hirings

Lack of drivers hamstringing supply chain recovery

The trucking industry is desperate to get drivers into seats at a time when the supply chain needs them most, but a variety of factors is stalling the industry’s ability to gain traction.

Chief among those factors is the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Since January 2020 when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration began recording substance abuse violations in the clearinghouse database, over 91,000 drivers have been taken off the road for testing positive or refusing to take a test....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lack-of-drivers-hamstringing-supply-chain-recovery

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