Secretary Buttigieg’s visit to UPS Worldport Air Hub highlights progress made to strengthen supply chains, speed shipping operations, and lower prices for consumers.

Louisville, KY — This week, amid the busy holiday shipping season, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to visit UPS’s Worldport Air Hub — one of the nation’s busiest cargo hubs and the world’s largest automated package sorting hub. His visit highlighted improved supply chain reliability thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s actions over the past year and a half, in partnership with the private sector, and he thanked the American workers who are essential to keeping our supply chain moving.

Congressman-elect Morgan McGarvey, Louisville Mayor-elect Craig Greenberg, KY DOT Secretary Jim Gray, International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, UPS CEO Carol Tomé, Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration Administrator Robin Hutcheson, and other local leaders and workers joined the Secretary for the event at Worldport.

In his remarks, the Secretary thanked the truck drivers and other transportation workers without whom the holidays would not be possible. These are good-paying jobs that give workers of all backgrounds a path to the middle class and a chance to grow their career, emphasized Secretary Buttigieg.

The Secretary also had the opportunity to tour the facility and join a UPS driver for a ride and chat about how truckers keep our supply chains moving.

In his remarks the Secretary announced that the Department is on track to dramatically increase the number of commercial driver’s licenses this year — just in the first three quarters of this year, U.S. DOT has issued over 67,000 more commercial driver’s licenses than last year. The increase comes after the administration published its Trucking Action Plan last December to support and grow the nation’s trucking workforce — and our economy in the process. Read more about the Trucking Action Plan HERE.

The president’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is also creating job opportunities in the trucking industry as well as improving working conditions and safety thanks to new investments in truck parking, CDL programs, new efforts to recruit more women in the trucking industry, and more.