Transportation Industry Layoff News Updates

Government, Business, Logistics

Amazon CEO Says Job Cuts Will Continue Into 2023

Amazon.com Inc. CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will be cutting jobs into 2023 as it adjusts to business conditions, his first public comments about the cost-reduction plans roiling Amazon since reports that it planned to wipe out about 10,000 jobs.

November 18, 2022
Business, Equipment, Logistics

Amazon Employees Fear No One Is Safe as Layoffs Roil the Ranks

No one is safe. So wrote an Amazon.com Inc. employee on an internal chat room as the company began the largest round of layoffs in its history.

November 16, 2022
Business, Top 100, TCA

C&S Wholesale Services to lay off 175 in Connecticut

C&S Wholesale Services Inc. plans to permanently lay off 175 employees at its warehouse facility here, according to a notice filed with the state.

November 1, 2021
Business

Ford to Cut 1,400 US Salaried Jobs in Reorganization

Ford Motor Co. is cutting about 5% of its U.S. salaried workers as part of a sweeping reorganization, which could include layoffs, in a move to help the automaker reverse its declining fortunes.

September 2, 2020
Government, Business, Equipment

Volvo Announces Plan to Cut 4,100 From Workforce

Volvo Group will reduce its white-collar workforce by 4,100 starting in the second half of the year as it confronts lower demand during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

June 16, 2020
Business

U.S. Steel Foreshadows Blue-Collar Pain With 2,700 Layoffs

U.S. Steel Corp. expects to lay off about 2,700 employees as the virus forces the company to idle most of its blast furnaces.

May 1, 2020
Government, Business

Industry Leaders: Celadon Drivers, Others Recently Laid Off Likely to Find Work

Recent headlines concerning the trucking industrys economy have been somewhat foreboding, but industry leaders are optimistic workers laid off can find new jobs.

December 12, 2019
Business

Employees of Closed Carrier LME Are Losing Hope They'll Get Paid

Two months after less-than-truckload carrier LME of New Brighton, Minn., abruptly shut down, former employees told Transport Topics that they have not received back pay and bonuses they were promised, and fear they may never see this money.

September 11, 2019
Business, Logistics

Schneider Lays Off 107 Workers in California

Schneider National Carriers will lay off 107 employees at a Fontana, Calif., distribution terminal, the result of a failed home-delivery operation it launched three years ago.

August 30, 2019
Business

Comcar Industries Looks to Hire Former LME Drivers

Two weeks after LME Inc. abruptly shut down its trucking operations in the Upper Midwest, leaving several hundred employees, including drivers, without jobs, another trucking company is looking to hire those drivers.

July 22, 2019