Leveraging its nationwide network of more than 7,000 attorneys, TVC has a high success rate reducing or dismissing citations.
MSC sues Deere, patent owner sues six shipping lines, box-overboard cases pile up, and Hanjin’s ghost tries to collect.
A lawyer who specializes in cyber incident responses gives the inside story of what happened after a ransomware attack hit a trucking company.
The owner of two defunct California trucking companies, Royal Flush 89 Transport and Cuevas Transport, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday.
A federal grand jury has indicted Daniel R. Fruits, a former executive of Secure Transit, headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, alleging he defrauded his investor of nearly $14 million to buy a horse farm, Rolex watches and several luxury cars.
Former driver recruiter Michelle Serth-Stein is accused of embezzling nearly $121,000 from two Missouri trucking companies.
Divided federal appeals court revived CRST’s driver-poaching lawsuit against TransAm
Darren Prokop writes about California’s AB 5 and its impact in California – and nationwide.
Seth Holm of FreightWaves Freight Intel Group writes about the impact of nuclear verdicts on the trucking industry. Will 2020 be a tipping point for these huge awards?
By R. Eddie Wayland, TCA Legal Counsel The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers nine States including California, recently affirmed a decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) which found that prohibitions on secondary boycotts under Section 8(b)(4)(i)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do not violate the […]
R. Eddie Wayland, TCA Legal Counsel Employers may be well aware of the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in situations where an employee or applicant is “disabled” as that term is defined under the ADA. What about a situation in which an employer purportedly discriminates against an applicant because the employer believes […]
R. Eddie Wayland, TCA Legal Counsel We have previously discussed the Boeing decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In that decision, the NLRB changed its approach to determining whether an employer’s workplace rule violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Before Boeing, an employer’s workplace rule would be struck down if it “could […]
by John Kingston, FreightWaves The data is in and it shows pretty clearly what everybody has assumed: In the Southeast at least, the size of the verdicts against trucking companies are on the rise. Data compiled by a company called CaseMetrix is stark in showing how the jury verdicts against trucking companies have gone up over the […]
R. Eddie Wayland, TCA Legal Counsel In a recent Legal Comment article, we discussed how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) went back to following a rule established by the United States Supreme Court, holding that an employer can bar any nonemployee from soliciting its employees, including union organizers, so long as they bar all […]
Australia’s road transport industry has a way to go in ensuring gender equity. Research has found that female workers encounter misogyny, bullying and discrimination. In other Down Under Trucking news: mistake is no defence to trucking crime; supermarket boosts safety after loading dock death; logistics giant snaps up drayage business; CTI Logistics expects a small profit.
Scott Case explores the reasons behind the recent FedEx lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Senior U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier Jr. sentenced the final four women to be tried in the Pilot Flying J fraud case to probation and community service, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
