Something strange is afoot in long-distance trucking that is also bedeviling other industries: Many jobs that pay well—and don't require expensive degrees—are going unfilled for months. U.S. Xpress Inc., a Tennessee-based carrier, has enough freight to Trucking companies added 300 new employees on a seasonally adjusted basis in October, according to preliminary payroll employment figures released Friday, Nov. 5, by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS also revised upward its ROCKFORD (WIFR) – The downturn of the economy in 2008 hit people hard and many are still without jobs. Now, a partnership between Rock Valley College and a Wisconsin business are providing students with a quick road to a career. Robert Anderson has had a COLUMBIA STATION -- More than 2,000 trucking jobs will haul through Ohio thanks to the annual Great Lakes Job Fair. The event took place Thursday at the Great Lakes Truck Driving School, 27740 Royalton Road. "This is our Fifth annual job fair and it's When Kraft Foods announced it was eliminating its private fleet and would be relying on larger motor carriers to move its freight, approximately 285 truck drivers received word that they would be losing their jobs beginning in June. Joyce Hodel of Kraft Payroll employment in trucking surged in February as trucking companies added 10,200 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to numbers released March 9 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. February represents the largest one-month gain in trucking .
Even as the recession hammered the economy a few years ago, Harry Levy didn’t have a problem finding qualified drivers at his San Antonio trucking and construction company. But that has changed as drilling has boomed in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas. The phone rings at Atlantic Trucking Co. in Charlotte a couple of hundred times a day lately. Terminal manager Lee Montgomery occasionally logs 12-hour shifts, taking orders and scanning rate quotes. A cardboard sign, stuck in the grass outside, also As the United States added 142,000 jobs in August, the trucking industry lost 800. The overall unemployment rate for the country was unchanged at 6.1 percent, according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. For-hire trucking reached 1 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- During tough economic times with high unemployment, Americans should be jumping at any chance to work, but trucking companies are struggling to hire drivers. There are as many as 200,000 job openings nationwide for long haul truckers .
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