A California company, which once contracted with FedEx Ground to deliver packages before filing suit against the global delivery giant over alleged illegal business practices, has filed for bankruptcy liquidation.
Norfolk Southern will be required to pay an additional $310 million for the 2023 East Palestine derailment. The settlement will go towards measures to improve rail safety, pay for health monitoring and mental health services for the surrounding communities, fund long-term environmental monitoring and more.
Another large trucking company has asked federal regulators to relax its permitting rules to get drivers in seats faster.
Minnesota has reached a deal on compensation for Uber and Lyft drivers, and a California court seems to favor Proposition 22’s protections for gig workers from the state’s independent contractor law.
BNSF Railway has filed an appeal for an asbestos trial verdict that ruled the railroad was liable in the deaths of two people in Montana.
A coalition of far-flung states has filed a lawsuit to fight California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
A federal lawsuit alleges CSX inflated the amount of time employees were charged for taking leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, punished workers for taking the leave, and terminated or suspended over 100 employees for allegedly taking FMLA leave fraudulently.
A federal grand jury has indicted an Ohio trucking company owner, alleging the former Department of Defense contractor failed to pay approximately $1.2 million in taxes in a yearslong scheme.
Peloton filed a complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission alleging that Flexport’s practices cost the fitness company millions of dollars in unreasonable detention and demurrage charges.
More than 3 1/2 years after a suspect in a series of staged accidents in Louisiana was slain, there are arrests in the case.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law a bill that largely prevents lawsuits from being filed directly against insurers after truck crashes.
Delivery company DHL will pay $8.7 million to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit alleging that the company assigned Black workers to more dangerous routes than white workers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized some 2,300 baby and children’s products from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
TFI International subsidiaries TA Dedicated and Transportation Enterprise Services will pay $460,000 to settle a sexual orientation and retaliation lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Monday.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision helps define the legal status of transportation workers at companies that are not primarily involved in transportation.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule that will ensure overtime pay for some salaried and highly compensated employees – a move that critics say could hurt brokers operating small businesses.
Wyoming locomotive engineer Andrew Kirol claims in a lawsuit that he was injured when an AI system used by Union Pacific gave incorrect information to locomotives on the train on which he was working.
The one attorney who has pleaded guilty in the Louisiana staged truck accident scam has seen his sentencing delayed again.
Arkansas authorities arrested a truck driver after a traffic stop allegedly revealed he was in possession of nearly 28,000 packs of untaxed cigarettes.
Vladimir Tsymbalenko, a former CDL school owner in Philadelphia, was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to bribing a CDL test administrator to pass clients.
Here are a few key takeaways from the Scopelitis Transportation Law seminar on the myriad of legal issues facing today’s trucking fleets.
Federal rules on personal conveyance are a big reason for continued hours-of-service violations, according to P. Sean Garney of Scopelitis Transportation Consulting.
The California Trucking Association and OOIDA plan to appeal a recent decision upholding California’s independent contractor law, AB5, to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A new law in Minneapolis that was to go into effect May 1 on Uber, Lyft compensation has been delayed.
Former Tony’s Express employees and truck drivers say financial mismanagement by new owner John Ohle led to the trucking company’s collapse.
A truck driver who filed a defamation suit because of the contents of a report on him came up short on appeal in federal court.
A federal appeals court backed the authority of the EPA to grant environmental waivers to California, with possible ramifications for trucking.
Leon Keener pleaded guilty to mail fraud in an embezzlement scheme in which he stole $1.3 million from I-State Truck Centers in Minnesota.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have put a $1 million cap on non-economic damages in lawsuits related to accidents involving trucks and other commercial motor vehicles.
Truck lease purchase deals did not get many positive reviews at a recent gathering of a federal task force studying the deals’ impact.
A California-based less-than-truckload carrier has ceased operations, leaving over 200 truck drivers, warehouse workers and office personnel without jobs or paychecks.
A nuclear verdict in a fatal accident on Interstate 70 in Missouri has been upheld by an appellate court.
A jury found Jesus Puebla, 27, of Denver, guilty of five counts of vehicular homicide after the straight truck he was driving crashed into an SUV carrying a Wyoming family.
Natural gas may be having a moment as an alternative fuel for trucking, but there are a few nagging questions.
An earlier ruling that a group of drivers in Amazon’s Flex program in Wisconsin are employees rather than independent contractors has effectively been upheld.
An administrative assistant at a Texas trucking company who ran a fraudulent pay scheme faces more than five years in prison.
Agents in Cincinnati found fake NFL, NCAA and MLB championship rings that had been sent from Hong Kong to Kansas.
In the ongoing battle between FreightTech giants project44 and FourKites, the Illinois Supreme Court has sided with project44, agreeing that allegedly defamatory emails were sent to a third party.
In the ongoing battle between FreightTech giants project44 and FourKites, the Illinois Supreme Court has sided with project44, agreeing that allegedly defamatory emails were sent to a third party.
Legislation heading to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to bar most truck-crash lawsuits against insurance companies would reduce premiums and lead more insurers to write policies, supporters say.
The odds of winning the big AB5 independent contractor case on appeal, after last week’s smackdown in a lower court, are considered slim, observers say.
A new attempt to keep California’s independent contractor law AB5 from the state’s trucking sector was thoroughly rejected by a federal judge this week.
Prosecutors said Viorel Pricop set fire to Swift Transportation trailers after the company helped law enforcement bring federal charges against him.
Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana has signed a bill that allows juries to know whether a plaintiff in a vehicle accident was using a seat belt. The ATA has praised the legislation.
An NLRB rule on joint employee status that was widely feared by employers has been vacated by a federal court in Texas just before it was to take effect.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has withdrawn a rule that would have required reporting of scope 3 emissions, those related to companies’ supply chains.
Truck driver Kelvin Garcia Liriano, 28, of New Rochelle, New York, was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing $33,000 load of Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
A case in Illinois involving BNSF Railway and a federal law on biometric information privacy has its settlement figure: $75 million.
The Texas Supreme Court has set a March 6 deadline for any parties that want to weigh in on the $90 million verdict against Werner Enterprises.
Supreme Court considers that question and what it means for disputes taken to arbitration or to court.
A Wisconsin bill may limit non-economic damages for accidents involving commercial vehicles. An Indiana bill would let seat belt use be used as evidence in accident lawsuits.
Federal prosecutors have charged the owner of an Illinois trucking company in an elaborate scheme to help applicants cheat on CDL exams by using hidden microphones and earpieces.
Texas-based factoring company Genesis Network Telecom filed for bankruptcy liquidation on Wednesday.
Fleet telematics provider Motive Technologies filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging Samsara Inc. copied and used its proprietary technology and patents.
Two owners of a Utah trucking group were recently convicted for their roles in a pay-to-play fraud scheme that siphoned more than $108 million from FedEx Ground.
An administrative law judge ruling against the current system of chassis pools was upheld by the full Federal Maritime Commission.
The owner of an Ohio trucking company pleaded guilty to wire fraud, admitting his role in a scheme to overbill shippers and consolidate shipments headed for Amazon warehouses and Bath & Body Works stores.
A lawsuit that goes back to 2010 and opened the door for the ABC test in New Jersey has been settled.
New Jersey is raising its truck liability insurance requirement to $1.5 million, one of the highest in the U.S.
Federal investigators have charged two current and two former Massachusetts State Police (MSP) troopers, along with two others, alleging the six traded favors in exchange for giving passing scores to certain applicants in a fraudulent commercial driver’s license (CDL) scheme.
A Texas-based trucking company has filed for bankruptcy liquidation four days before a wrongful death civil trial filed by the family of one of its former drivers who drowned in 2016 was slated to start in El Paso County, Texas.
Ex-Slync CEO Christopher Kirchner was found guilty Thursday of four counts of wire fraud and seven counts of money laundering following a four-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District in Fort Worth, Texas.
Six people have pleaded guilty so far in a federal fraud case involving former executives at Polar Air Cargo, customers and service providers.
Fleet telematics provider Samsara Inc. (NYSE: IOT) filed suit against rival Motive Technologies in federal court Wednesday, alleging Motive, formerly KeepTruckin, copied and used its proprietary technology and engaged in false and misleading advertising.
Visibility providers project44 and FourKites take their defamation fight to the Illinois Supreme Court.
A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to supervised release and six months of house arrest for his role in a scheme to defraud the trucking company where he worked out of more than $112,000.
The Haslam family has exercised its option to have Berkshire Hathaway buy the final 20% of Pilot Travel Centers it did not already own.
After agreeing to a $1.675 billion fine for violating the Clean Air Act, Cummins Inc. will pay California $175 million in the same case.
The final Department of Labor rule on independent contractors was mostly unchanged but with some small wins for the trucking industry.
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a case involving broker liability leaves that question unresolved among the circuit courts.
Berkshire Hathaway and the former owners of Pilot Travel Centers have settled their legal differences on the day trial was set to begin.
The Fair Labor Standards Act can be applied to team drivers for some of the time spent in the sleeper berth, according to a federal court.
The California Clean Truck Check registration deadline has been extended to Jan. 31.
Cummins Inc. will pay nearly $1.7 billion to federal and state regulators to settle a more than 4-year-old emissions-cheating case.
A lawsuit challenging the waiver granted by the EPA to California for its Advanced Clean Trucks rule will be delayed.
There’s a new nuclear verdict against a trucking company and it comes out of a case in Georgia.
An earlier Uber/Postmates court victory over AB5 in California has been vacated.
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton outside federal court after being sentenced to four years in prison. (Photo: Matthew Lee/Inner City Press)
The upcoming trial between the Haslam family and Berkshire Hathaway will see some limits on discussing a contentious issue.
Alleged thefts of chicken and chicken-adjacent foods on both sides of the Atlantic have me feeling fricasseed.
California has asked the Environmental Protection Agency for a waiver to implement the Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
Feds compare convicted startup founders Elizabeth Holmes and Trevor Milton in recommending Nikola’s founder receive a similar sentence.
Federal prosecutors want to see Nikola founder Trevor Milton imprisoned for 11 years as punishment for lying to investors.
GlobalTranz prefers the Supreme Court not review its appellate court victory in a case involving a fatal accident.
Two of the most significant plotters in the Louisiana staged accident scheme were to be sentenced Thursday but it’s been delayed.
The first deadline for a little-noticed environmental rule affecting all trucks traveling in California is Dec. 31.
A federal judge has sentenced Amy Shepherd, 44, of Wichita, Kansas, to 18 months in prison for stealing nearly $113,000 from the trucking company where she worked for nearly three years.
A Berkshire lawsuit against Pilot’s founding family over payments made to company executives won’t be heard alongside another case.
Franklin Ray was sentenced to 212 months in federal prison for his role in multiple fraud schemes, including bilking investors out of $40 million in a truck investment venture.
A request for the Supreme Court to review a lower-court ruling could bring clarity to conflicting decisions across multiple courts about broker liability.
A Tennessee-based trucking and logistics company has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that it discriminated against noncitizen workers when checking their permission to work in the U.S.
U.S. cargo airline Amerijet accuses Korean Air of protectionism. Korean Air says Amerijet is trying to cover up the true nature of its relationship with Maersk Air Cargo because it violates air transport rules.
Coyote Logistics won a legal battle over liability, but the victory may have repercussions beyond this particular case.
A Q3 increase in reported incidents of cargo theft was fueled by a triple-digit rise in “strategic” thefts like cargo misdirection, CargoNet says.
It’s back to the courtroom for the CTA and OOIDA as they continue their legal battle against California’s AB5.
An online auction is slated for Tuesday to sell the assets of Minnesota-based Twin Express Inc., which had more than 70 power units, after the trucking company defaulted on a $19 million loan.
A white paper by factoring company OTR Solutions highlights risks it sees from the combination of 3PL bankruptcies and asset-based lending.
The family who founded Pilot Travel Centers and sold 80% of it to Berkshire Hathaway has filed suit over valuing the final 20%.
A former senior executive at Polar Air Cargo pleaded guilty to corporate corruption and agreed to pay restitution of $9.3 million in addition to serving a potential jail sentence.
While logistics visibility platform provider Slync had hoped that new management and a $24 million cash infusion in February would be enough to save the FreightTech company after its former CEO was indicted on fraud charges, the company is proceeding with an alternative option to a traditional bankruptcy and plans to wind down operations and sell off its technology.
