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Truckers
Truckers are in short supply. Drug testing doesn't help.
Jan 4, 2021
Drivers are retiring, while the pandemic and new drug-test data sharing are keeping many from joining the ranks.
U.S. short on long-haul truckers
Mar 13, 2019
Trucking companies are boosting pay and trying to make the lifestyle more amenable to a new generation of drivers.
Amid a record driver shortage, Indian-American Sikhs are taking to trucking
Mar 7, 2019
In the last two years, one demographic has been gravitating towards the trucking industry by the thousands: Indian-American Sikhs.
Mexican truckers get pushback across the US border
by
Kai Ryssdal
Jan 10, 2018
For Mexican truckers, life hauling goods across the border can be tough. That’s because they don’t get to travel very far across the border with the United States. Though the North American Free Trade Agreement ensures the free travel of goods across the continent, Mexican truckers have faced pushback from American truckers’ unions over their […]
Truckers strike over employment status
by
Andy Uhler
Jun 2, 2016
They're considered contractors. They want to be employees.