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Business & EconomyThe Sutphen union dispute has engulfed the company since October. Since then, workers have been working without a contract as negotiations have come to a halt.
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Council members approved the $2.5 million ladder truck purchase after rejecting it narrowly last week. Sutphen, a Dublin-based company, is in a dispute with its union workers.
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The 5-to-4 vote was split with council members Rob Dorans, Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, Melissa Green, Otto Beatty III and Nancy Day-Achauer voting against the purchase. Council President Shannon Hardin voted for the purchase alongside council members Emmanuel Remy, Christopher Wyche and Nick Bankston.
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Business & EconomyThe Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is participating in International Roadcheck, a 72-hour blitz from May 14-16 throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada that checks motor carriers for safety violations.
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Business & EconomyThe trucking industry says it is short some 80,000 drivers. That's a 33% increase since 2019. At current trends, that number could pass 160,000 by 2030. Possible remedies include increasing the number of training schools and a pilot program that would allow 18-20 year-olds to drive across state lines.
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Traffic over the last few weeks has been noticeably lighter as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s stay-at-home order has been in effect. But, with essential...
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Truck drivers complain that strict "hours of service" rules waste time and slow shipping. The Trump administration is poised to relax them, despite warnings from safety advocates about crashes.
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The trucking industry says there’s been a driver shortage for two decades – and that there could be 175,000 unfilled trucker jobs in the next seven...
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A Columbus freight terminal is equipping its fleet of tractor-trailers with what it calls life-saving technology designed to avoid some highway…