Peter T. Leach/The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE
Journal of commerce (Newark, N.J.),
02/2009
Newspaper Article
The deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry by theMotor CarrierAct of 1980continues to impact how the 7,000 truckers who deliver and pick up containers daily at the ports of New York and New Jersey earn their livelihood. It has resulted in lower trucker earnings, driver shortages, higher truck emissions and mounting inefficiencies, says a new study by David Bensman, professor of labor studies and employment relations at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, and Yael Bromberg, a student at Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
