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Federal regulators met with representatives from the railroad industry, oil industry, pipeline industry, and other interested parties last week to discuss possible solutions to the growing concerns over railway safety. In the past several months, four major accidents involving trains filled with crude oil have endangered lives and property. Since the pipeline infrastructure in North America is…

On Friday, Ohio Governor John Kasich, along with Jobs Ohio managing director Kristi Tanner and Fuyao chairman Cao Dewang, announced that the Chinese auto parts maker plans to purchase about one million square feet of the old General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio. The new plant is expected to bring about 800 new jobs to…

Hitachi Consulting is a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, and operates the global IT services and management consulting services for the company’s clients. Recently, Hitachi Consulting conduced a survey of companies operating in nine different countries around Europe. The survey identified a serious disconnect between the upper management of these companies and the workers who are in charge…

As Congress resumes sessions in Washington for the New Year, the American Trucking Association issued a press release on Wednesday asking lawmakers to move forward on many of the unaddressed issues that still plague the transportation industry. Some of the requests revolve around completing tasks already underway, and others bring up other longstanding issues, which Congress has…

Trucking associations and carrier companies have consistently fought the new truckers’ hours of service regulations implemented last June by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration. These regulations cut the number of hours truckers are able to work, thereby further limiting the ability of carriers to transport all of their loads in…

Over the past 30 years, U.S. manufacturing has undergone a tremendous loss because jobs were outsourced or moved overseas, where labor was cheap and readily available. However, the new resurgence in U.S. manufacturing is underway, as labor costs in the States becomes competitive with other parts of the world and the energy revolution allowed by newly developed…