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Clarissa Hawes

Clarissa has covered all aspects of the trucking industry for 18 years. She is an award-winning journalist known for her investigative and business reporting. Before joining FreightWaves, she wrote for Land Line Magazine and Trucks.com. If you have a news tip or story idea, send her an email to chawes@firecrown.com or @cage_writer on X, formerly Twitter.
Dec - 2024 -
17 December
Clarissa Hawes

Missouri trucking company with 255 drivers files for bankruptcy

A family-owned Missouri trucking company with 265 trucks and 255 drivers recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Clarissa Hawes

Texas trucking company’s equipment going on auction block

An online auction was underway Tuesday to sell some of the assets of intrastate trucking company D.A.F.S. Transport of Monahans, Texas, which operates primarily in the Permian Basin in West Texas.

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13 December
Clarissa Hawes

West Virginia trucking company files for bankruptcy

A West Virginia-based trucking company, which hauls coal, logs and wood chips, recently filed for bankruptcy.

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12 December
Clarissa Hawes

Manager of New York freight forwarder accused of illegal oil, gas product exports

The manager of a New York-based freight forwarding company is facing criminal charges alleging she violated federal export controls by illegally shipping oil and gas products to Russia.

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11 December
Clarissa Hawes

Fireside Chat: Using AI to boost safety, warehouse logistics efficiency

Sankalp Arora, co-founder and CEO of Gather AI, and FreightWaves’ Grace Sharkey discussed during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit the use of AI technology and drones to automate inventory monitoring and asset tracking in warehousing to improve efficiency and reduce human error.

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Nov - 2024 -
29 November
Clarissa Hawes

Fresno trucking company manager sentenced in $1.6M fraud scheme

A California man was sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $1.6 million from the Fresno-based trucking company where he worked for 15 years.

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27 November
Clarissa Hawes

EX-NFL player, business partners indicted on PPP fraud charges

A former NFL player and his business partner, who were co-owners of a construction business and trucking company, and their bookkeeper face fraud charges after prosecutors claim they engaged in a scheme to obtain $1.4 million through the Paycheck Protection Program.

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22 November
Clarissa Hawes

OTR division of 38-year-old Texas carrier ‘absorbed’ by MVT

Nearly 100 truck drivers for Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution of El Paso, Texas, were notified earlier this week that its over-the-road division was being absorbed by its parent company, which also owns Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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Clarissa Hawes

Trucking company co-owner sentenced for falsifying driving logs after crash probe

A co-owner of a Massachusetts trucking company was sentenced to two months in prison after admitting that he falsified driving logs and lied to investigators in connection with a fatal collision involving the driver of one of the carrier’s trucks.

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21 November
Clarissa Hawes

Florida trucking company owner convicted in $112M Ponzi scheme

The owner of a Florida trucking and logistics company has been convicted for his role in a three-year truck investment Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $112 million.

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Clarissa Hawes

Truck driver shortage: Myth or reality? 

Trucking industry experts weighed in during a debate at FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival on whether there is a driver shortage or a driver retention problem.

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20 November
Clarissa Hawes

Cambridge Capital founder predicts M&A resurgence in 2025

After a pullback in lending from private equity- and VC-backed firms investing in supply chain tech after the COVID pandemic, Benjamin Gordon, founder and managing partner of Cambridge Capital, says there’s been a resurgence in strategic M&A.

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19 November
Clarissa Hawes

Convoy co-founder reflects on digital brokerage’s rise and fall

Dan Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of Convoy Inc., discussed the rise and fall of the digital freight brokerage he helped create and the lessons he learned along the way on Tuesday at FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival.

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18 November
Clarissa Hawes

California logistics company files for Chapter 11

A California logistics company has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing the loss of its largest “anchor” customers as one of the main reasons it is seeking to reorganize.

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14 November
Clarissa Hawes

Tech battle continues as Samsara files new lawsuit against rival Motive 

Samsara Inc. filed a new lawsuit accusing rival Motive Technologies CEO Shoaib Makani and its executives of engaging in a “multi-year campaign to procure Samsara Trade Secrets” to compete with Samsara in the fleet management market.

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06 November
Clarissa Hawes

Family-owned Canadian carrier shutters operations after 76 years

A family-owned cross-border trucking company — McKevitt Trucking, headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario – has ceased operations after more than three-quarters of a century.

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05 November
Clarissa Hawes

Miami trucking company, 5 affiliates file for bankruptcy

A Miami trucking company and its five affiliates with more than 400 drivers recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Oct - 2024 -
30 October
Clarissa Hawes

Virginia engineer sentenced in $15.6M investor fraud scheme

A Virginia engineer was sentenced to seven years and six months in federal prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme that bilked investors out of over $15.6 million after purporting that he had lucrative engineering inspection contracts for federal and state government infrastructure projects.

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25 October
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered Illinois trucking company files for bankruptcy liquidation

A shuttered Illinois-based trucking company that once hauled general freight, liquids and gases, beverages and paper products recently filed for Chapter 7.

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21 October
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois carrier lays off most of its company drivers

An Illinois trucking company recently notified most of its company drivers that it could “no longer support part of its fleet operations” and terminated their positions “due to current market conditions.”

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17 October
Clarissa Hawes

Texas trucking company, affiliates file for bankruptcy liquidation

A Texas trucking company and its affiliated companies have shuttered operations and recently filed for bankruptcy liquidation, citing serious financial conditions as the main reason.

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10 October
Clarissa Hawes

Nonprofits in logistics space speed medical supplies, other aid to Florida

Nonprofit groups loaded with crucial disaster-relief and medical supplies are at staging areas outside Tampa, Florida, after Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday before leaving a trail of destruction across the state.

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Sep - 2024 -
26 September
Clarissa Hawes

Digital freight broker furloughs workers after losing key customers

Digital freight broker Next Trucking and sister trucking company Next Freight Solutions may close after furloughing most of their remaining employees and drivers, according to sources familiar with the situation.

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18 September
Clarissa Hawes

Fireside Chat: Keeping food cool with solar-powered reefer units

Robert Koelsch, co-founder and CEO of Advanced Energy Machines, talks about his company’s zero-emissions SolarTech transportation refrigeration units (TRUs).

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16 September
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered California trucking company files for bankruptcy liquidation

A shuttered California-based trucking company that once pulled intermodal containers out of the Port of Oakland has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

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13 September
Clarissa Hawes

Former employee sues Midwest Transport Inc. over mass layoff

A former employee of Midwest Transport Inc. has filed a WARN Act lawsuit, alleging the trucking company failed to give a 60-day notice of a planned shutdown before laying off 650 employees, including 480 truck drivers.

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06 September
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois trucking company with 480 drivers abruptly ceases operations 

An Illinois-based trucking and logistics company that contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail and had more than 480 drivers ceased operations abruptly Thursday, according to sources familiar with the closure.

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Aug - 2024 -
29 August
Clarissa Hawes

Global freight forwarder confirms malware attack for ‘technical disruptions’

Atlanta-based JAS Worldwide, a global freight forwarder, confirmed Tuesday that it was targeted by a ransomware attack after experiencing technical disruptions, which affected its ability to operate and service its customers.

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28 August
Clarissa Hawes

Former trucking company owner in prison after pleading guilty in PPP fraud

A former trucking company owner from Acworth, Georgia, reported to prison Thursday, a day after a federal judge denied a motion to postpone his surrender following his sentencing in a Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme.

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22 August
Clarissa Hawes

Nashville brokerage abruptly ceases operations, cuts 130 jobs

Nashville-based Universal Capacity Solutions ceased operations Tuesday, laying off around 130 freight brokers and office personnel after its parent company, publicly traded Universal Logistics Holdings, pulled the plug without warning.

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21 August
Clarissa Hawes

Perdue Transportation drivers blindsided by layoffs

About 30 regional drivers for Maryland-based Perdue Transportation Inc. were called in to a meeting Monday and told to clean out their trucks and hand in their fuel cards and badges.

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15 August
Clarissa Hawes

Trucking company owner pleads guilty to falsifying logs in fatal motorcycle crash

A former co-owner of now-defunct Westfield Transport of West Springfield, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to falsifying driving logs in connection with a June 2019 collision involving one of the company’s trucks.

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Clarissa Hawes

Refrigerated carrier A&A Express closes South Dakota facility, cuts 111 jobs

Refrigerated carrier A&A Express announced plans to lay off 111 employees, including 85 truck drivers, and wind down operations by Friday at its Brandon, South Dakota, facility.

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02 August
Clarissa Hawes

Drayage carrier notifies NJ independent contractors of changing business model

New Jersey independent contractors who haul freight under STG Drayage’s operating authority will no longer be tendered loads in November unless the truckers get their own authority through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Jul - 2024 -
31 July
Clarissa Hawes

New Jersey trucking company files for Chapter 11

A New Jersey-based trucking company, cited numerous times for safety violations for both its drivers and equipment, recently filed for Chapter 11.

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26 July
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois trucking company, brokerage file for bankruptcy liquidation

Blue Thunder Trucking of Broadview, Illinois, and its three affiliates filed for bankruptcy liquidation on July 19.

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23 July
Clarissa Hawes

SEC charges 2 executives in $112M trucking Ponzi scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two more Florida executives with participating in a truck investment venture that allegedly bilked investors out of $112 million.

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22 July
Clarissa Hawes

2 Miami trucking companies file for bankruptcy protection

Two Miami-based trucking companies, A1 Transport Network and AB Brothers USA, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday.

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17 July
Clarissa Hawes

Aifleet CEO discusses use of AI to boost driver utilization

Marc El Khoury, co-founder and CEO of tech-driven trucking company aifleet, weighed in at FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit on the debate over the so-called driver shortage and ways his company uses proprietary AI technology to increase driver utilization.

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12 July
Clarissa Hawes

Freight ransom allegations rock brokerage industry

Nearly two dozen freight brokers say an Illinois trucking company and its “affiliated carriers” are holding 36 confirmed loads hostage until ransom demands are paid.

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11 July
Clarissa Hawes

Ex-Slync CEO Chris Kirchner sentenced to 20 years in prison

Ex-Slync CEO Chris Kirchner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District in Fort Worth, Texas.

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01 July
Clarissa Hawes

C.H. Robinson slashes over 50% of US sales team, sources say

Truck brokerage giant C.H. Robinson Worldwide laid off around 80 members of its remaining 150 sales representatives in the U.S. on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the cuts.

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Jun - 2024 -
27 June
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered California LTL carrier files for bankruptcy

Less-than-truckload carrier Tony’s Express of Fontana, California, has filed for bankruptcy protection, nearly three months after it terminated 200 truck drivers, dock and warehouse workers, and office personnel via text message.

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25 June
Clarissa Hawes

Texas logistics firm files for bankruptcy liquidation

Texas-based U.S. Logistics Solutions has filed for Chapter 7, stating that its lender pulled the plug on its funding, forcing the company to shutter operations Thursday.

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23 June
Clarissa Hawes

Texas logistics company with 500 truck drivers abruptly ceases operations

About 2,000 truck drivers, warehouse and dock workers, and office personnel of Humble, Texas-based U.S. Logistics Solutions say they were notified Thursday that the company was ceasing operations and they would not be paid Friday.

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20 June
Clarissa Hawes

Indiana carrier seeks post-bankruptcy financing deal with factoring company

An Indiana trucking company that has filed for bankruptcy protection says a financing deal with a company providing the carrier factoring services is “critical” to continuing operations.

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14 June
Clarissa Hawes

Jury slams Schneider National with $47M ‘nuclear verdict’ in fatal crash

A Georgia jury recently awarded more than $47 million to the family of a 35-year-old owner-operator who was killed in a August 2017 crash involving a former company driver for Wisconsin-based Schneider National Carriers.

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06 June
Clarissa Hawes

FreightWaves announces rapid-fire demo best-in-show winners in Atlanta

Attendees voted Tai Software and MyCarrier TMS as best-in-show winners out of 13 companies that showcased FreightTech innovations during rapid-fire demonstrations at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event.

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04 June
Clarissa Hawes

J.B. Hunt executive: Focus on customers key amid industry uncertainty

A top executive at J.B. Hunt Transport said at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event that it’s important to zero in on customers’ changing needs to provide long-term value.

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03 June
Clarissa Hawes

Indiana-based trucking company with 122 drivers files for bankruptcy

An Indiana trucking company with 122 drivers and 142 power units recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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May - 2024 -
24 May
Clarissa Hawes

Former FedEx Ground contractor files for bankruptcy liquidation

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.

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21 May
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois trucking companies file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Illinois-based Patriot Transport and sister company Expeditor Systems recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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20 May
Clarissa Hawes

CDL truck driving school shutters operations, files for bankruptcy

A CDL training school that had facilities in Washington and Oregon has ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy liquidation.

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10 May
Clarissa Hawes

Ohio trucking company owner accused of evading $1.2M in taxes

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.

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08 May
Clarissa Hawes

FedEx Freight to close 7 service centers nationwide in 2024

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), is closing seven service centers in the U.S. as the division continues to make alignments to its freight network.

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01 May
Clarissa Hawes

92-year-old Texas trucking company files for bankruptcy liquidation

A 92-year-old trucking company, Arnold Transportation Services of Grand Prairie, Texas, ceased operations recently and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

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Apr - 2024 -
30 April
Clarissa Hawes

Widow suspects foul play after missing Iowa trucker’s body found

Dave Schultz, who had been missing for more than five months, was found in a field near where his abandoned red- and white-striped Peterbilt was located in Sac County, Iowa.

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17 April
Clarissa Hawes

California carrier and freight brokerage ceasing operations, blames AB5

Family-owned trucking company and brokerage California Intermodal Associates Inc. is ceasing operations after nearly 25 years and blames the state’s independent contractor law.

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15 April
Clarissa Hawes

97-year-old Illinois dairy forced into bankruptcy

A 97-year-old dairy that offers home milk delivery in glass bottles and has scores of ice cream and dairy stores in Illinois and Missouri has filed for bankruptcy protection.

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12 April
Clarissa Hawes

Former Tony’s Express workers, drivers say mismanagement sank company

Former Tony’s Express employees and truck drivers say financial mismanagement by new owner John Ohle led to the trucking company’s collapse.

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04 April
Clarissa Hawes

California trucking company ceases operations after 19 years

A California trucking company has shuttered operations after 19 years of hauling general freight throughout the state.

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02 April
Clarissa Hawes

70-year-old California trucking company, freight brokerage closes abruptly

A California-based less-than-truckload carrier has ceased operations, leaving over 200 truck drivers, warehouse workers and office personnel without jobs or paychecks.

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Mar - 2024 -
29 March
Clarissa Hawes

Jury finds Colorado trucker guilty of vehicular homicide in 2022 crash

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.

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Clarissa Hawes

103-year-old meat producer forced to seek bankruptcy protection

Deli meat producer Freirich Foods claims “temperature abuse” of tons of corned beef at a third-party cold storage facility is the reason it was forced to file for bankruptcy protection.

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25 March
Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered California trucking company files for bankruptcy

A California-based trucking company, which shuttered operations in November after its operating authority was involuntarily revoked, recently filed for bankruptcy liquidation.

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20 March
Clarissa Hawes

DAT blames ‘external forces’ for intermittent service outages

DAT Freight & Analytics says “external forces” caused service disruptions over the past 10 days on the load board’s platform.

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14 March
Clarissa Hawes

Illinois trucking company with 171 drivers files for bankruptcy

An Illinois trucking company with 183 trucks and 171 drivers recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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08 March
Clarissa Hawes

Virginia logistics company files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

Trucking, logistics and truck stop chains are collectively owed millions of dollars after a Virginia-based logistics firm recently shuttered operations and filed for bankruptcy liquidation.

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06 March
Clarissa Hawes

Qued aims to streamline, automate load scheduling for shippers, carriers

Qued President Tom Curee discusses the company’s new software offering that streamlines and automates load appointment scheduling among shippers, 3PLs and carriers.

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05 March
Clarissa Hawes

Truck driver sentenced for stealing rig hauling Mike’s Hard Lemonade

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.

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Feb - 2024 -
26 February
Clarissa Hawes

California freight forwarder files for bankruptcy

Trucking, logistics and factoring companies are collectively owed millions of dollars after a California-based freight forwarder filed for bankruptcy liquidation.

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23 February
Clarissa Hawes

Feds charge Illinois trucking company owner in alleged CDL fraud

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.

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22 February
Clarissa Hawes

Texas factoring company files for bankruptcy liquidation

Texas-based factoring company Genesis Network Telecom filed for bankruptcy liquidation on Wednesday.

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16 February
Clarissa Hawes

Motive countersues fleet tech rival Samsara over patent infringement

Fleet telematics provider Motive Technologies filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging Samsara Inc. copied and used its proprietary technology and patents.

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15 February
Clarissa Hawes

Utah trucking group owners convicted in FedEx Ground fraud scheme

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.

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13 February
Clarissa Hawes

Ohio trucking owner pleads guilty to wire fraud

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.

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02 February
Clarissa Hawes

Georgia-based trucking company files for bankruptcy

A Georgia-based trucking company, Newsome Trucking, which has 60 drivers and 33 power units, recently filed for bankruptcy protection.

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01 February
Clarissa Hawes

Penske Logistics slashes over 200 truck driver and warehouse jobs

A major logistics company filed paperwork this week stating that it plans to cut more than 200 truck driver and warehouse jobs at its facilities in Washington and Oregon by March 31.

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Jan - 2024 -
30 January
Clarissa Hawes

Feds charge Massachusetts state troopers in alleged CDL bribery scheme

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.

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26 January
Clarissa Hawes

Texas trucking company files for bankruptcy days before wrongful death trial

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.

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25 January
Clarissa Hawes

Ex-Slync CEO Chris Kirchner guilty of wire fraud, money laundering

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.

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24 January
Clarissa Hawes

Tech battle: Samsara sues Motive Technologies for patent infringement, false advertising

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.

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19 January
Clarissa Hawes

Ex-Roadrunner trucker sentenced in $112K fraud scheme

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.

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12 January
Clarissa Hawes

Chicago-based Coyote Logistics cuts sales, operations jobs

Freight brokerage Coyote Logistics has slashed an unspecified number of jobs in its sales and operations divisions.

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Clarissa Hawes

Medical logistics company divesting trucking, cross-dock operations

TruBlu Logistics is divesting its private long-haul fleet and will transition cross-dock shuttle operations to another company, affecting over 600 trucking jobs.

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09 January
Clarissa Hawes

Digital brokerage Uber Freight slashes jobs

Digital freight brokerage Uber Freight confirmed Tuesday it was forced to cut a number of jobs in order to align with its “continued commitment to drive sustainable growth.”

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Clarissa Hawes

Shuttered California trucking company files for Chapter 7

A California-based third-party logistics company, which had 34 power units and 33 drivers, filed for bankruptcy liquidation on Thursday.

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02 January
Clarissa Hawes

Bankruptcies, fraud and a missing trucker: Key trucking stories in 2023 

The demise of Yellow Corp. dominated headlines after the carrier filed for bankruptcy protection in August. A lot of smaller carriers and brokerages also called it quits in 2023.

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Dec - 2023 -
21 December
Clarissa Hawes

Wife of Iowa trucker seeks answers a month after his disappearance

It’s been a month since Sarah Schultz last saw her truck driver husband, David. “Any scenario you could run through your head is probably a possibility,” the Sac County sheriff said.

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13 December
Clarissa Hawes

Security, customer benefits key to buy-or-build TMS dilemma

Walter “Mitch” Mitchell, CEO of Tai Software, urges freight brokers to build their businesses in areas that benefit customers before deciding whether to buy or build a TMS platform.

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08 December
Clarissa Hawes

Postal contractor Matheson Trucking shuttering operations after 60 years

Postal Service contractor Matheson Trucking and wholly owned subsidiaries Matheson Flight Extenders and Matheson Postal Services of Sacramento are winding down operations after six decades in business.

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06 December
Clarissa Hawes

Ex-Roadrunner dispatch manager sentenced to 18 months for wire fraud

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.

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04 December
Clarissa Hawes

VC-backed CloudTrucks exits factoring business to focus on core offerings

CloudTrucks CEO Tobenna Arodiogbu has announced that his company is exiting the factoring business and will be transitioning its current customers to RTS Financial in the coming weeks to focus on its core business offerings, Virtual Carrier and Flex.

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Nov - 2023 -
29 November
Clarissa Hawes

Michigan trucking fraudster sentenced to 17 years for $40M Ponzi scheme

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.

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27 November
Clarissa Hawes

Postal Service seeks Operation Santa volunteers to deliver gifts to needy families

The U.S. Postal Service is seeking helpers to ensure needy children and families have gifts under the tree on Christmas morning through its Operation Santa program.

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22 November
Clarissa Hawes

Covenant Logistics to pay $700,000 to settle discrimination allegations

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.

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Clarissa Hawes

Postal Service contractor to cut 450 jobs, close 2 facilities in California

Amid an ongoing financial dispute with the U.S. Postal Service, Matheson Flight Extenders plans to lay off more than 450 employees by Dec. 15 and close its mail sorting facilities in California.

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17 November
Clarissa Hawes

CEO fails to pay employees, carriers after Elite Transit collapse

Former Elite Transit Solutions employees say when they raised concerns to CEO Michael D. Johnson about carriers not being paid or suddenly being blocked from posting freight on one of the country’s largest load boards, he “always had an answer for everything.”

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08 November
Clarissa Hawes

China’s COVID policy showed global supply chain’s fragility

Leland Miller, CEO of China Beige Book, spoke with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller about ongoing supply chain issues, geopolitical tensions and financial risks in China at F3: Future of Freight Festival on Wednesday.

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07 November
Clarissa Hawes

Montana-based brokerage, trucking affiliate file for bankruptcy liquidation

Meadow Lark Agency and its affiliate, Meadow Lark Transport, filed for bankruptcy liquidation Monday, owing around 120 former employees almost $800,000 and nearly 1,300 trucking companies about $2.7 million.

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