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Uber Boosts Trucking Push With $2.25 Billion Deal To Buy Freight Service Transplace
Ridehail giant Uber is making a big push to beef up its trucking business by purchasing logistics service Transplace for about $2.25 billion, intending to turn its Uber Freight unit into a top player in arranging and tracking shipments of goods.
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The founder of $1 billion self-driving truck firm TuSimple says human truckers having to spend hours on the road is a 'tarnish on the glory of humanity'
The founder of self-driving truck unicorn TuSimple says that human truck drivers being required to work long hours on the road is a "tarnish on the glory of humanity." Xiaodi Hou is the founder, president and chief technology officer of TuSimple, which develops tech for automating long-haul truck journeys without human intervention needed. The self-driving trucks still have a human truck driver and an engineer present at all times, as a failsafe.
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Around 4,500 truck drivers lost their jobs in August as the trucking 'bloodbath' rages on
Truck drivers' earnings have sunk in 2019. Now the federal government has said 4,500 truck drivers lost their jobs in August alone.
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The Double Life of a Truck Driver
On his way to work every day, Andrew Cohn passed a truck stop on the side of the road. One truck was always there: a long, white semi with the words Mobile Chapel painted on the side. Each time he drove past it, he’d imagine the conversations that were going on inside. Who was in there? What kind of stories were being told? “The whole idea of a mobile chapel dedicated to long-haul truckers seemed a bit out of the ordinary,” Cohn told me. “I mean, who opens a church in the back of a semi-truck?”
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Trucking Is the Security Crisis You Never Noticed
Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)
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The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream Review
As a worker in freight and a Teamster, I found the book extremely valuable in explaining how the employers colluded with each other and the federal government to create a new system of labor control that depressed wages and drove the union out of most of the trucking industry. By Ryan Haney, Teamsters Local 745 in Dallas, Texas. (Oct. 2, 2017)
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Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
In July last year, long-haul truck driver Stephanie Klang got a rare speeding ticket because she was too engrossed listening to public radio. “It’s okay, I only get a speeding ticket about once every 10 years,” she said. “… It was worth it for the story.” She told the state patrolman that yes, she knows listening to the radio is not a valid excuse, then proceeded to tell him all about the radio show that took her mind off her speed — an episode of BackStory about the history of taxes in the U.S. after the country had just broken away from England.
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Trucking as a State of Mind
Finn Murphy’s “The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road” is an occupational memoir with an untold human story at its center. By Joshua Rothman.
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Morgan Southern fires trucker who spoke about 20-hour workdays
Rene Flores lost his job, his truck and $60,000 he paid toward buying it after he talked to reporters about working conditions. By Brett Murphy. (July 10, 2017)
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Rigged. Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
Los Angeles — Samuel Talavera Jr. did everything his bosses asked. Most days, the trucker would drive more than 16 hours straight hauling LG dishwashers and Kumho tires to warehouses around Los Angeles, on their way to retail stores nationwide. He rarely went home to his family. At night, he crawled into the back of his cab and slept in the company parking lot.
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Surviving the Long Haul
For women in the trucking industry, going to work can mean subjecting themselves to catcalling, harassment, rape, and a system built to deny them justice. By Mary Pilon.
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