The Chinese American Truckers Association filed suit against FMCSA and California DMV this week, challenging an indefinite licensing freeze that has stranded qualified drivers in bureaucratic limbo.
This week, I was drawn into the feud between Project44 and FourKites, fierce rivals in logistics tech. Matt Elenjickal, FourKites’ CEO, misrepresented my comments about Project44’s Movement platform as a quote from Jett McCandless, Project44’s CEO. He also misstated their context to unfairly damage Project44’s reputation. Those were my words alone. In a LinkedIn post, […]
Motive is fighting a post-trial motion by Omnitracs that claims Motive used prejudiced religious and racial insinuations to convince a federal jury it did not commit copyright infringement.
Omnitracs is seeking a retrial after a federal jury found competitor Motive not guilty of copyright infringement.
The operators of a tanker that the U.S. military contracted to haul jet fuel are suing a subsidiary of the owners of a shipping company whose container ship struck the tanker in March.
A week after a tractor-trailer crash killed five people on Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, a survivor of the 19-vehicle wreck has sued the transportation companies and truck driver involved.
Supply chain management company Flexport is suing Freightmate AI, alleging former Flexport employees now heading the logistics software company stole sensitive commercial documents.
Project44 responds to an open letter by MyCarrier CEO Mike Bookout.
NSF must pay more than $394 million for transporting oil across tribal land in northwest Washington in violation of an agreement, a judge has ruled.
A Los Angeles jury awarded more than $58 million to Pablo Scipione, who suffered a microfracture in his foot while working at a train yard in 2016.Independent contractor was injured in 2016 at Kinkisharyo yard
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Western Global Airlines has hit hard times, losing Amazon as a primary customer, piling up debt and facing at least two lawsuits.
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California officials are going to court again to try to mitigate the emissions impact of a new air logistics center at the San Bernardino Airport anchored by Amazon Air.
Shippers utilizing last-mile delivery providers face some level of risk due to claims, but some simple steps can help mitigate it.
Inactivity could lead a federal court to dismiss Nikola’s patent infringement lawsuit against Tesla. A lot has changed on both sides.
An employer’s ‘honest belief’ and good recordkeeping helps it win pregnancy discrimination lawsuit.
Suit alleges that FourKites’s fake email accounts called project44 “the next Theranos.”
Former Trimac workers claim the bulk carrier failed to provide respirators and implement safety measures at its tank washing facilities in Georgia.
New England Country Foods has accused Empacadora Frape, its Mexican supplier, of failing to deliver on a contract for packaged beef chili destined for Texas prison commissaries.
Grandparents of a 10-year-old girl killed in a tractor-tractor crash that also killed her mother and three siblings have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
An Odessa, Texas-based company must face a $500,000 lawsuit over alleged damage to a wastewater pipeline.
Deluxe Express filed for bankruptcy protection, citing skyrocketing insurance rates, fatal crash.
The family of a Wyoming man killed in a head-on tractor-trailer crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and trucking company
California owner-operators argue their livelihoods are at stake under new labor law.
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) is suing the city of Palestine, Texas, to nullify a 150-year-old contract to keep a certain number of jobs in the town indefinitely. The agreement between Union Pacific and Palestine — which was signed in 1872 — dates back to the days when the city was at the crossroads of several […]
The parents of two children killed in a fatal crash during a snowstorm in March 2018 have filed a $10 million lawsuit, alleging negligence against the trucking company and its driver, despite an investigation that cleared the truck driver of any wrongdoing.
The Justice Department has asked the express carrier’s lawsuit to be dismissed, stating that it should be up to Congress and not the court to decide if the Export Administration Regulations apply.
Pilot Flying J has filed a civil lawsuit against Falcon Transport of Youngstown, Ohio, and its private equity owners, alleging the now-defunct carrier owes the truck stop chain nearly $800,000 in unpaid fuel bills.
A long-running lawsuit over leased vehicles appears to be reaching its conclusion. The lawsuit, Roberts, et al. v. C.R. England, Inc., et al, is scheduled for final approval by a judge on July 9, 2019, following a $37.8 million settlement that was reached last month in the class-action suit. The case centered around C.R. England […]
A major port operator in Australia is being sued in the nation’s Federal Court by the national competition watchdog, alleging an anti-competitive deal with a state government.
Just weeks after a federal judge sided with the company and decertified a class of about 11,000 current and former drivers who filed suit, J.B. Hunt has reportedly reached a $15 million settlement with the drivers.
The lawsuit asserts that water “poured in through a gap in city levees,” and it says the gap was created by a railway underpass owned by CSX.
The judgement pertained to a company policy that resulted in drivers who must temporarily move into non-driving roles for medical reasons being paid less than drivers making the same move for non-medical reasons.
Alleging that Prime Inc. put female truck drivers in harm’s way, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit this week against the carrier, alleging Prime did not take adequate steps to prevent sexual harassment of a female truck driver.
Wyoming Supreme Court decided to send a wrongful death lawsuit against CRST International to trial last week.
Shippers are increasingly being held responsible for actions of carriers hauling their freight, says a leading transportation attorney.
The man behind the trucker march on Washington last month is back with a new group and a new billion-dollar lawsuit. James Lamb and his Small Business in Transportation Coalition has sued Indiana over the collection of Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) fees.
