Legal issues
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Central Freight Lines truckers: Final paychecks came too late for Christmas
After finding out that Central Freight Lines was shuttering operations, hourly employees, including 1,325 truck drivers, learned that their final paychecks weren’t mailed out as…
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Exclusive: K-Ratio X banned from futures trading after fuel hedging probe
A national regulatory body has permanently banned the Chicago-based parent companies of K-Ratio X’s now-defunct fuel hedging program that targeted trucking companies from any futures…
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Former Central Freight Lines employee sues over LTL carrier’s shutdown
A former Central Freight Lines employee claims the Waco,Texas-based less-than-truckload carrier violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its planned shutdown…
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Woman avoids jail time in latest sentencing for Louisiana staged accidents
The woman pleaded guilty but was not a key organizer of the June 2017 accident.
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Autopsy report: How Central Freight fell into a 5-year ‘death spiral’
Analysts, industry insiders and some of Central Freight Lines’ executives and drivers liken the LTL carrier’s demise to a “five-year death spiral” after the company…
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2nd Pennsylvania man charged in alleged CDL testing scheme
Federal investigators have charged a second man in connection with an ongoing probe into an alleged CDL scheme in Pennsylvania
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FreightWaves Classics/Leaders: Willard S. Townsend was a pioneering labor leader
Labor leader Willard S. Townsend made a difference for thousands during his career. Read his profile in this FreightWaves Classics article.
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Louisiana trucker gets 70 months for drug trafficking
A Louisiana trucker was recently sentenced to nearly six years in prison for drug trafficking. Rusty Ross Honore received a PPP loan two months after…
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Former Roadrunner CFO sentenced to 2 years for accounting, securities fraud
The former CFO of Roadrunner Transportation Systems was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a complex securities and accounting fraud scheme…
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Trucking company owner: Driver charged with human trafficking seemed ‘religious’
The owner of a small Delaware-based trucking company described his driver, who was recently arrested and charged with holding a woman captive in his truck…
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