XPO Logistics agrees to acquire Con-way for $3B

XPO Logistics agrees to acquire Con-way for $3B

XPO Logistics has agreed to acquire Con-way transportation, truckload and freight brokerage businesses for $3B, an acquisition that will make XPO the second-largest less-than-truckload provider in North America. Con-Way, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., is a Fortune 500 company with a transportation and logistics network of 582 locations and approximately 30,000 employees serving over 36,000…

ATA urges Congress to provide truck driver hair testing option

ATA urges Congress to provide truck driver hair testing option

In an August 24 letter, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves asked Congress to move forward with legislation that would allow fleets to use hair samples as part of a federally required program of drug screening for commercial drivers, according to the organization. “Every day, thousands of hair tests are performed worldwide within…

ATA asking industry to rank concerns

ATA asking industry to rank concerns

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, recently launched the 2015 Top Industry Issues Survey. The annual survey, commissioned by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), asks trucking industry stakeholders to rank the top issues of concern for the industry along with appropriate strategies for addressing each issue. The survey is…