A request by two separate plaintiffs for a court to stay the enforcement of the federal government’s rule governing issuance of CDLs to most non-domiciled drivers has been denied. The request came from two separate groups of plaintiffs. One is Martin Luther King County in Washington state, more colloquially known as King County, home of […]
Both FMCSA and outside companies are spurring carriers to get ready for the next phase of Motus.
The Montgomery broker liability case before the Supreme Court was heavily discussed on C.H. Robinson’s earnings call.
An $81 million verdict in Utah against a building supply company over its trucking operations that killed a preteen is being called the largest civil verdict ever awarded in that state and has entered the discussion about being one of the largest nuclear verdicts in trucking in recent years. The verdict came down in a […]
New York CDL lawsuit filed as state challenges DOT in federal court over a $73M funding cut.
Maine House and Senate members complained to the U.S. Postmaster General about nearly $350,000 in delinquent payments to an air carrier in the state that provides essential service to rural communities.
The Department of Labor rule on joint employers will need to be watched by trucking companies.
The Teamsters had a pair of judicial developments this month, with mixed outcomes.
A report by CBS on trucking and brokerages spurred a lengthy response from C.H. Robinson.
New York transportation funding is cut after dispute with feds over non-domiciled CDLs.
The broker liability case looms large over the annual confab of freight brokers.
California has begun to push warehouses to get in line with its rules on transport refrigerated units.
A day-long hearing at the New York City Council focused on the bill that would drastically impact Amazon’s delivery model.
Vanessa Motta, convicted in the Louisiana truck accident scam, is asking for a new trial.
Three former Quickway drivers, seeking class action, said Kroger blocked 3 carriers from hiring them.
Attorneys say companies should track entries, file protests and prepare for new tariffs as the government develops a system to refund billions in duties.
The next steps in the Louisiana staged accident scheme were going to be sentencings that are now likely to be delayed.
If a driver takes a product from point A to point B wholly within a state, never crossing a boundary with another, can that worker be considered an interstate worker? That question made it to the Supreme Court Wednesday, as the two sides in Brock vs. Flowers Foods made their case to the nine justices. […]
Two Mexican truck drivers filed a federal lawsuit claiming a Texas carrier misclassified their visas and denied them overtime pay.
The convicted lawyers in the Louisiana staged accident case will be sentenced in July. How much will they receive?
Two attorneys have been convicted in the Louisiana staged accident scam.
Lawsuit verdict: TQL hit with $22.5M verdict in pregnancy case.
Dalilah’s Law on issuing CDL and other safety measures passed its first hurdle in Congress.
The owner of an Amazon delivery service provider was recently convicted of defrauding the retailer of nearly $10 million.
Samsara won a $30.3 million arbitration award over false-advertising claims tied to AI dashcam studies, while the ITC cleared Motive of patent infringement and ended any import-ban threat. Other cases remain pending.
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 […]
