People in transport - Topics

How much of the fare actually reaches the driver after commission and fuel? What counts as a truck driver's rest period when the tachograph says one thing and the schedule says another? Crew change in a pandemic: how did 400000 seafarers end up stuck aboard? Transport and storage employ roughly one in ten workers in rich economies: what those jobs actually are. Truck and bus driver shortages are a training pipeline problem more than a pay problem. Who checks that the bus driver has not been on shift for fourteen hours? Migrant crews on flag of convenience ships and a law that cannot reach them The rating system punishes drivers for traffic they do not control How do you run a fleet when half the drivers are near retirement? What happens to engine plant workers when a factory retools for EVs? Why do ride hailing platforms keep ending up in court over whether their drivers are employees? Why does a truck driver earn less per hour than the warehouse worker who loads the truck? Six months at sea and nobody to talk to: what crew rotation does to a sailor What a taxi driver knows about a city that no map does Why women passengers request female drivers and platforms keep refusing to build it What does a bridge crew actually do when a storm hits the Bay of Biscay? A wheelchair user's commute involves three phone calls before it even starts Night shift workers and the health cost of just getting home The last mile courier is timed to the minute and paid by the parcel Community car schemes run on volunteers and collapse when one driver moves away Why do private pilots still cross countries in small piston aircraft instead of driving? Will autonomy kill driving jobs or just change them? What a transit union can shut down in a single morning Bus drivers quitting over shift patterns is a service problem before it is a pay problem Why women still avoid the night bus and what operators actually do about it Why are there so few women driving trains? What does a pilot actually do during an eight-hour ocean crossing with nothing to see? Air traffic controllers retire early for a reason Why do astronauts spend two hours a day exercising just to keep their muscles? Rostering drivers legally while keeping the timetable honest The dispatcher who moves 200 buses before dawn and is never seen by a passenger Standing watch on a bridge at three in the morning in the middle of the Pacific