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FedEx to Cut Management Jobs by More Than 10%

FedEx Corp. is cutting global officer and director jobs by more than 10%, the courier鈥檚 latest cost-saving measure as economic concerns and waning e-commerce weigh on demand for package delivery.

February 1, 2023
Business, Technology

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda to Step Aside, Become Chairman

TOKYO 鈥 Toyota set up a new leadership team Jan. 26 in what the Japanese automaker said was a move to stay abreast of social changes like electrification and becoming a wider 鈥渕obility company.鈥

January 26, 2023
Business, Technology

Daimler Picks Bernd Pischetsrieder to Be Next Chairman

Daimler AG鈥檚 supervisory board picked Bernd Pischetsrieder to be its next chairman and help navigate the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars through a seismic industry transformation.

December 3, 2020
Business, Technology

Millennials Present Challenges, Benefits to Trucking Industry

RALEIGH, N.C. 鈥 The generation gap between trucking industry leaders is getting wider, as younger millennials enter the freight workforce with different understandings of the world around them.

September 23, 2019
Business

Celadon鈥檚 New Management Brings In Turnaround Specialists

Celadon Group Inc. is undergoing managerial changes as it faces the results of a third audit to see whether it overvalued hundreds of used trucks.

July 18, 2017
Business

Iowa Trucking Exec Named Chamber of Commerce Vice Chairman

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce鈥檚 board has elected trucking executive John Ruan III as its vice chairman for 2010, American Trucking Associations said Friday.

June 11, 2010