The Biden administration announced Thursday its plan to bolster the trucking industry by recruiting more drivers and reducing delays in issuing licenses, but the moves are not likely to have any major immediate effect on filling in the supply gain gaps that are keeping goods from consumers.
Truck drivers around the nation are seeing pay increases in the tens of thousands, and students are being offered six-figure salaries when they finish training programs.
A section of Marion Boulevard is closed as construction crews install girders for the new pedestrian bridge that will span the main Marion road.
A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel
The new twin spans of the Interstate 74 bridge between Iowa and Illinois are being delivered more than a year late and $74 million over bid.
Collins Aerospace announces agreements from the UAE event
Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding under the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Though it’s not yet Halloween, mail carriers UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service have released their recommended deadlines to ship packages in time for the holidays.
The project, decades in the making, could be finished years sooner if awarded the $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Activity at the city-owned airport slowed down at the start of 2020 but has since rebounded. A record was set for fuel sales during fiscal year 2021, which ended in June.
The bridge, the first of its kind in Iowa and eligible to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, will be torn down in April
Cedar Rapids neared pre-pandemic levels of traffic in the summer, but the lack of business travel has lowered expectations for the fall.
Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $40,000.
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