Unionization of the workplace thought it hadgotten a boost by the Cemex standard, but it took a hit in a recent court case.
A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Amazon by fraudulently making claims for trailer movements that didn’t actually take place. Ameer Nasir, 25, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court for Connecticut, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for that state. Although the […]
A summary of local reporting on the staged truck accident scheme from a Louisiana courtroom.
(Editor’s note: FreightWaves streamed news and commentary from the arguments before the Supreme Court in Montgomery vs. Caribe II earlier Wednesday. That can be found here). There was a stretch of questioning of Theodore Boutrous during oral arguments Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court on Montgomery vs. Caribe Transport II, the possibly groundbreaking case involving […]
(A full article on the broker liablility proceedings can be found here.) Good morning. Editor at large John Kingston and Washington bureau chief John Gallagher will be following the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in Montgomery vs. Caribe, the case that is expected to settle an almost existential question in freight brokerage: […]
A suit against FedEx for a refund of $36 in duties plus fees could expand to millions of plaintiffs if a judge certifies it as a class action in the wake of a Supreme Court decision deeming certain Trump tariffs unlawful.
Huge losses in Illinois’ commercial auto assigned risk plan are fueling claims that weak auditing and fleet misreporting may be distorting the state’s trucking insurance market.
A new enforcement regime in New York state could land some drivers in trouble quicker than before.
Discover how the latest independent contractor rule changes affect truckers and the logistics industry.
Walmart has agreed to pay $100M to dismiss a lawsuit by the federal government and 11 states that it deceived app-based delivery drivers about pay they would receive.
The U.S. Postal Service can’t be sued for poor service, even when mail is intentionally not delivered, the Supreme Court held.
A shipper has sued FedEx for repayment of tariffs collected on small parcels after the Supreme Court said the Trump administration was wrong to use emergency authority to impose the import fees.
A dangerous driver is still in a truck with his own DOT number, operating under someone else’s authority.
Rank and file workers at a small carrier voted down a union but the company now must negotiate with it.
The prosecution of NFI CEO Sidney Brown has come to an end in New Jersey.
UPS says a Teamster lawsuit seeking to stop it from offering a large buyout package to parcel drivers is without merit and should be dismissed by a district court.
Another attempt to license last mile delivery drivers in New York City is raising many questions on numerous logistics issues.
An EEOC lawsuit over the failure of a company to hire a deaf driver has ended with a settlement.
A California jury awarded $52 million to truck drivers who said Sysco retaliated against them for reporting safety and labor violations.
A driver who set Swift trailers on fire now has a second sentence for his activities.
A long-running lawsuit by drivers against Werner has been settled, and the size of the payout pool revealed.
NFI CEO Brown, whose criminal indictment was tossed last year in New Jersey, saw that decision affirmed on appeal.
A federal lawsuit by Vantage Carrier alleges R&R Family of Companies affiliates failed to pay more than $1 million in freight invoices, adding to mounting carrier and creditor claims following the company’s collapse.
Are ELP out-of-service violations actually effective law enforcement?
A Texas lawsuit filed by Jimenez Logistics alleges R&R Express and RFX failed to pay $264K in freight invoices.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Retail Federation among those supporting C.H. Robinson in the brief.
A court refused to grant an order forcing California to resume granting CDL renewals.
The U.S. Government filed an amicus brief supporting freight brokers.
The Trump administration is putting its weight behind C.H. Robinson over the issue of broker liability.
The question of arbitration vs. litigation is easy to overlook in the Flowers Foods drivers’ Supreme Court case.
Members of an organized criminal gang that stole trucks with millions of dollars of merchandise received prison sentences ranging from nearly three years to 13 years.
C.H. Robinson has filed its brief with the Supreme Court on the issue of broker liability.
The big indictment against those charged with leading the Louisiana staged accident scam just got a little wider.
A Texas trucking company must rehire a driver and pay $100,000 in damages after investigators determined the driver was fired for raising safety complaints.
A Corpay appeal of a lower court ruling on deceptive practices was swatted away by a 3-judge panel.
As technology outpaces federal regulations, litigation hurdles loom for self driving trucks
Amazon lost an appellate court case on the question of whether it can be found to be a joint employer.
Amazon is backing Flowers Foods before the Supreme Court in a case involving delivery drivers’ legal status.
Recent Hours of Service waivers granted by FMCSA now cover 20 states.
A strike against a West Coast LTL carrier in 2008 began a long legal battle that may be coming to an end.
A New York City bill that is seen as targeting Amazon won’t get acted upon this year.
An EEOC action against a carrier that declined to hire a deaf driver will proceed after a judge’s ruling.
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) In a major legal battle at the U.S. Supreme Court, 29 states plus the District of Columbia have joined forces to support a truck accident victim. Their amicus or “friend of the court” […]
A Texas jury has handed down a roughly $44 million nuclear verdict, most of which will hit carrier New Prime.
It isn’t often you find Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and New York Attorney General Letitia James on the same side of an issue. But that pairing and numerous others that cross the political divide among the attorneys general of red and blue states and the District of Columbia can be found over the issue […]
The convicted founder of logistics platform Slync.io lost an appeal to a three-judge federal panel.
Three executives downloaded more than 20,000 files before leaving o9 Solutions for SAP.
The owner of an Ohio trucking company has been sentenced to 30 months for income tax evasion.
The Supreme Court got its first legal arguments as it takes up the issue of broker liability.
Amazon and the Teamsters faced off this fall in various venues, with a mixed outcome.
NJ truck driving school settlement resolves lawsuit over driver misclassification.
A South Carolina truck driver faces a major restitution payment for polluting a West Virginia waterway following a drunk-driving crash.
A “how-to” guide on the use of cameras in trucks was on the agenda at Trimble’s Insight meeting.
A panel at the Trimble Insight conference took on the issue of trying to forecast the freight market in 2026.
xcerpt: AB5 enforcement trucking leads to a $868K penalty for misclassification in California. Explore the implications for the industry.
The deadline for the first key brief is at the start of December.
AUSTIN–If you’re a red-blooded male who just got hired at LTL carrier Estes Express, and on your first day you go looking to find the company’s beautiful Director of Operations whose picture you saw on LinkedIn, here’s a news flash: she doesn’t work there. Not only that, she doesn’t exist, at least not by the […]
Australian logistics software company WiseTech has seen its stock plummet anew due to police raid.
Most of the companies in our industry are being robbed by people using the equivalent of a ladder and basic tools.
A US District Judge rules an FMCSA email urging compliance isn’t the kind of “order” that motor carriers can enforce in court under federal law.
For the second time in the last two years, the transportation of bread will be the focus of a Supreme Court case involving the rights of the drivers who deliver those loaves and other baked goods. The case is also the second transportation-related case the Supreme Court has selected for review this term. It earlier […]
The nuclear verdict against trailer maker Wabash National has been settled out of court In a recent filing with the SEC, Wabash (NYSE: WNC) said it had settled the Missouri case that when the verdict first came down last year left the trailer manufacturer looking at a judgement of more than $460 million. That initial […]
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Office of Inspector General recently closed to major cases of fraud and mail theft.
Highway fraud prevention tools integrate into AscendTMS for SMBs, boosting security and enhancing protection.
Sentencings of two kingpins in the Louisiana staged accident scheme have been delayed yet again.
The Supreme Court will hear a case involving the U.S. Postal Service and whether it can be sued for deliberately withholding mail from a resident.
Truckers may face demurrage charges again as court reverses FMC rule, impacting logistics industry contracts.
An Amazon driver shot a U.S. Postal Service worker when they crossed paths at an apartment complex.
The Supreme Court will take up the issue of broker liability under F4A.
Supreme Court to decide on broker liability, impacting logistics law.
PAMT racial harassment lawsuit returns to lower court, challenging prior verdicts in renewed legal battles over racial harassment claims.
Two participants in the Massachusetts scheme to give CDLs to unqualified candidates were sentenced to jail in separate proceedings this month. Eric Mathison, who needed a supply of drivers and plied a state trooper with beverages to help get them, received a sentence of a year and a day, according to the U.S. Department of […]
The U.S. trucking industry is facing a crisis of overcapacity, safety lapses and national security risks, exacerbated by decades of deregulation and lax enforcement. Since March 2018, the number of active for-hire carriers has nearly doubled from 138,000 to 212,000 today, a 54% increase. According to SONAR’s OTVI index, freight volumes are only 1.2% higher […]
The U.S. government has filed its response to California’s claim that Congress was legally out of line when it yanked waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that permitted various transportation-related emission policies in that state, as the two parties head toward an October 30 court hearing. Last week’s filing by attorneys for the Environment […]
(Editor’s note: comments from an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the Cemex guideline have been added). The Teamsters has been battling Amazon on several fronts for several years with mixed success, and its laser-like focus on that target can lead it to invoke the online retailer’s name whenever it can, even if […]
Tesla settles California Tesla Autopilot lawsuit over fatal crashes,, latest in mixed record for the auto maker.
And then there’s the other side of the argument. With a September 29 judicial conference now set at the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for the justices to consider whether to take up the issue of broker liability, the pleadings on both sides of the debate are coming into focus. Both Transportation Quality Logistics and the Transportation […]
California authorities recovered $1.4 million in stolen consumer electronics with help from cargo security and risk management platform Overhaul.
TIA files comments as Supreme Court faces pivotal broker liability cases.
Nikola Corporation has agreed to a liquidation plan that includes an $83 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Thoughts from Motive’s CEO: Motive patent case victory over Samsara secures leadership in road safety tech.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Motive, rejecting Samsara’s claims of patent infringement.
By: Matthew Leffler The views in this piece are solely that of the contributor and do not reflect the opinions of FreightWaves, its staff, or any of its subsidiaries. In a massive court decision, a federal court has stopped five of President Donald Trump’s orders that put tariffs on almost all goods coming into the […]
The Trump administration is moving to replace the Biden administration IC rule through a rulemaking process.
The battle over California’s environmental regulations that impact trucking continued right through the end of August.
A federal judge in Georgia has allowed major parts of a lawsuit filed by Mexico-based workers to move forward against logistics films GFA Alabama Inc. and Glovis Georgia.
Six persons were indicted in Louisiana for operating a scheme to falsely obtain class A CDLs.
The Trump administration threatens to cut funds to California, New Mexico and Washington, over trucker English enforcement.
Three plaintiffs are alleging they were discriminated against due to their age and race after the American Trucking Association fired them in 2024.
A settlement in a New Jersey driver misclassification case involving NFI could provide healthy payouts to some individuals.
The state of Washington has slapped the U.S. Postal Service with a $33,000 penalty for unsafe handling of hazardous waste.
A long list of legal actions over the California-related Clean Truck Partnership just got the federal government into the fray.
A deal between truck manufacturers and the FTC is the latest blow to the Clean Truck Partnership.
TQL is trying to get the Supreme Court to rule on the issue of broker liability after it lost at the Sixth Circuit.
The inevitable lawsuit has been filed by engine manufacturers against California over the Clean Truck Partnership.
New Jersey is the latest state for a battle over independent contractor status.
The settlement in the biometrics case involving Lytx has been signed off by a judge.
The brother of Patrick Tillman, who joined the Army in the middle of a promising NFL career and died in Afghanistan, has been charged with setting fire to a U.S. post office.
Dustin Jarrard has been indicted for stealing from Tribe Transportation, his former company.
Allianz Commercial’s annual Safety and Shipping Review has found that cargo theft is increasing in frequency, scope, and sophistication.
