Clarissa Hawes

Clarissa has covered all aspects of the trucking industry for 18 years. She is an award-winning journalist known for her investigative and business reporting. Before joining FreightWaves, she wrote for Land Line Magazine and Trucks.com. If you have a news tip or story idea, send her an email to chawes@firecrown.com or @cage_writer on X, formerly Twitter.
Nov - 2024 -
19 November
Clarissa Hawes

Convoy co-founder reflects on digital brokerage’s rise and fall

Dan Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of Convoy Inc., discussed the rise and fall of the digital freight brokerage he helped create and the lessons he learned along the way on Tuesday at FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival.

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18 November
Clarissa Hawes

California logistics company files for Chapter 11

A California logistics company has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing the loss of its largest “anchor” customers as one of the main reasons it is seeking to reorganize.

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14 November
Clarissa Hawes

Tech battle continues as Samsara files new lawsuit against rival Motive 

Samsara Inc. filed a new lawsuit accusing rival Motive Technologies CEO Shoaib Makani and its executives of engaging in a “multi-year campaign to procure Samsara Trade Secrets” to compete with Samsara in the fleet management market.

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06 November
Clarissa Hawes

Family-owned Canadian carrier shutters operations after 76 years

A family-owned cross-border trucking company — McKevitt Trucking, headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario – has ceased operations after more than three-quarters of a century.

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05 November
Clarissa Hawes

Miami trucking company, 5 affiliates file for bankruptcy

A Miami trucking company and its five affiliates with more than 400 drivers recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Oct - 2024 -
30 October
Clarissa Hawes

Virginia engineer sentenced in $15.6M investor fraud scheme

A Virginia engineer was sentenced to seven years and six months in federal prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme that bilked investors out of over $15.6 million after purporting that he had lucrative engineering inspection contracts for federal and state government infrastructure projects.

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25 October
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered Illinois trucking company files for bankruptcy liquidation

A shuttered Illinois-based trucking company that once hauled general freight, liquids and gases, beverages and paper products recently filed for Chapter 7.

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21 October
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois carrier lays off most of its company drivers

An Illinois trucking company recently notified most of its company drivers that it could “no longer support part of its fleet operations” and terminated their positions “due to current market conditions.”

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17 October
Clarissa Hawes

Texas trucking company, affiliates file for bankruptcy liquidation

A Texas trucking company and its affiliated companies have shuttered operations and recently filed for bankruptcy liquidation, citing serious financial conditions as the main reason.

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10 October
Clarissa Hawes

Nonprofits in logistics space speed medical supplies, other aid to Florida

Nonprofit groups loaded with crucial disaster-relief and medical supplies are at staging areas outside Tampa, Florida, after Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday before leaving a trail of destruction across the state.

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Sep - 2024 -
26 September
Clarissa Hawes

Digital freight broker furloughs workers after losing key customers

Digital freight broker Next Trucking and sister trucking company Next Freight Solutions may close after furloughing most of their remaining employees and drivers, according to sources familiar with the situation.

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18 September
Clarissa Hawes

Fireside Chat: Keeping food cool with solar-powered reefer units

Robert Koelsch, co-founder and CEO of Advanced Energy Machines, talks about his company’s zero-emissions SolarTech transportation refrigeration units (TRUs).

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16 September
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered California trucking company files for bankruptcy liquidation

A shuttered California-based trucking company that once pulled intermodal containers out of the Port of Oakland has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

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13 September
Clarissa Hawes

Former employee sues Midwest Transport Inc. over mass layoff

A former employee of Midwest Transport Inc. has filed a WARN Act lawsuit, alleging the trucking company failed to give a 60-day notice of a planned shutdown before laying off 650 employees, including 480 truck drivers.

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06 September
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois trucking company with 480 drivers abruptly ceases operations 

An Illinois-based trucking and logistics company that contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail and had more than 480 drivers ceased operations abruptly Thursday, according to sources familiar with the closure.

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Aug - 2024 -
29 August
Clarissa Hawes

Global freight forwarder confirms malware attack for ‘technical disruptions’

Atlanta-based JAS Worldwide, a global freight forwarder, confirmed Tuesday that it was targeted by a ransomware attack after experiencing technical disruptions, which affected its ability to operate and service its customers.

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28 August
Clarissa Hawes

Former trucking company owner in prison after pleading guilty in PPP fraud

A former trucking company owner from Acworth, Georgia, reported to prison Thursday, a day after a federal judge denied a motion to postpone his surrender following his sentencing in a Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme.

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22 August
Clarissa Hawes

Nashville brokerage abruptly ceases operations, cuts 130 jobs

Nashville-based Universal Capacity Solutions ceased operations Tuesday, laying off around 130 freight brokers and office personnel after its parent company, publicly traded Universal Logistics Holdings, pulled the plug without warning.

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21 August
Clarissa Hawes

Perdue Transportation drivers blindsided by layoffs

About 30 regional drivers for Maryland-based Perdue Transportation Inc. were called in to a meeting Monday and told to clean out their trucks and hand in their fuel cards and badges.

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15 August
Clarissa Hawes

Trucking company owner pleads guilty to falsifying logs in fatal motorcycle crash

A former co-owner of now-defunct Westfield Transport of West Springfield, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to falsifying driving logs in connection with a June 2019 collision involving one of the company’s trucks.

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