A FedEx Ground driver has been arrested and is facing capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges after the body of 7-year-old Athena Strand was found Friday evening less than 10 miles from her home in Paradise, Texas.

Lack of sick pay is a sticking point among railroaders on both sides of the debate over the tentative deal, but Congress could change that.

La precisión de los horarios de los ferrocarriles y las bajas por enfermedad son los puntos más conflictivos

Family-owned Mid Continent Trucking of Denison, Iowa, notified drivers and employees recently that after 24 years, the refrigerated carrier was ceasing operations two days after Thanksgiving because of worsening economic conditions and tumbling freight rates.

Prefiero poder pagar a mis empleados mientras tengo dinero que esperar a no tenerlo”.

La demanda de la Ley WARN alega que UFI violó la ley federal

A former United Furniture Industries employee claims the furniture manufacturer, headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its abrupt shutdown to nearly 2,700 employees and truck drivers, who found themselves without jobs two days before Thanksgiving.

La empresa, que opera bajo la marca Lane, despidió a toda la plantilla por correo electrónico y texto

Former employees of United Furniture Industries say they were caught unaware overnight after receiving word they were not to report to work Tuesday because their jobs were being immediately terminated “due to unforeseen business circumstances.”

El jurado considera que Lower Huron Chemical & Supply Co. no cumplió con las normas del DOT en el incidente de 2018

A Michigan jury has awarded $7.7 million to a man who was seriously injured in 2018 when the wheel came loose from a box truck heading in the opposite direction, jumped the median and crashed into the front of his vehicle.

Terri Creech, head of product and learning at Amazon Freight Partner, spoke with Hannah McClellan, vice president of Amazon Freight, at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about Amazon Freight’s plans to invest billions on safety-related investments for its trucks and trailers over the next few years.

FreightWaves’ Grace Sharkey spoke with Chuck Price, founder of AI Kinetics, at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about the future of autonomous trucks and what infrastructure is needed before we can expect to see driverless vehicles on the nation’s highways.

FreightWaves’ Daniel Pickett spoke with Garrett Wolfe, chief product officer of TriumphPay, at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about the company’s open payments network.

FreightWaves’ Kaylee Nix spoke with Bill Driegert, co-founder of Uber Freight, at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about how carriers can navigate a volatile freight market.

FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill spoke with Steam Logistics executives Jason Provonsha and Steve Cox Tuesday at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about the 3PL’s efforts to end noncompetes in the freight industry.

Current and former employees of Total Quality Logistics say they are closely following a former colleague’s two legal actions involving the nation’s second-largest freight brokerage.

Digital freight startup Convoy announced Monday that it is cutting more jobs, the tech giant’s second round of layoffs in the past year after slashing 7% of its workforce in June. 

Ryan Gavin, director de crecimiento, dirigirá el nuevo grupo de negocios racionalizado orientado a los cargadores

Navarro Trucking Group, which pulled intermodal containers out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, has folded and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

A former bookkeeper from Missouri admitted she devised a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program while awaiting sentencing in an unrelated embezzlement case involving a family-owned farm and trucking company.

Embattled FreightTech platform Slync.io has named John Urban as CEO and chairman of the board, replacing Chris Kirchner, who was fired on Aug. 5.

Su predecesor, Kirchner, fue despedido en agosto

California truck driver Jesus Manuel Salgado is facing four counts of first-degree murder. Salgado is accused of kidnapping and killing four family members from their trucking business.

As search-and-rescue efforts continue in areas decimated by Hurricane Ian, nonprofit trucking groups are banding together to help survivors of the Category 4 storm.

Authorities confirmed that four family members, including an 8-month-old girl, were found dead in an almond orchard Wednesday, two days after they were abducted at gunpoint from their trucking business in Merced, California.

Lone Star Dedicated of Haslet, Texas, will be closing its doors in October with nearly 90 company drivers losing their jobs hauling refrigerated food nationwide.

McClellan Trucking and Duran Transfer, which contract with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

A nonprofit trucking group is partnering with a volunteer-run disaster-relief organization to collect and deliver critical supplies as Hurricane Ian intensified into a Category 4 system and is expected to pound Florida’s southwest coast late Wednesday morning.

El transporte de suministros de emergencia demuestra al público “lo crítico que es el transporte por carretera

As the trucking industry prepares for Hurricane Ian, FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller offers advice to truckers interested in hauling FEMA loads.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for trucking company Wyotrans have taken a rocky turn after two of its largest secured creditors claim they haven’t been paid in two months for leased or rented equipment being used to haul freight and that the carrier is behind on insurance premium payments.

Los acreedores buscan la devolución de los equipos y cancelar las pólizas de seguro tras el impago

A federal appellate court has upheld the conviction of ex-Roadrunner Transportation Systems CFO Peter Armbruster for his role in a securities and accounting fraud scheme that cost shareholders $245 million.

The parents of a woman killed last month after a trucker crashed into an overpass on Interstate 25 in Colorado have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the towing company and the driver.

Thomas Wasson and Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder of Plus, discussed the company’s future strategy at FreightWaves’ virtual Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit on Wednesday.

Jacob Patterson presentó una demanda para “detener el acoso económico de TQL

Jacob Patterson, who worked at TQL for nearly 14 years, claims his lawsuit against the second-largest freight brokerage in the U.S. “demonstrates the extraordinary measures TQL will take to harm the career prospects of an employee who has the temerity to leave the company.”

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based U.S. Xpress is cutting another 5% of its corporate workforce in the trucking company’s second round of layoffs in three months.

La compañía ha recortado aproximadamente el 10% de su plantilla corporativa, unos 140 puestos de trabajo, este año

A week after Apex Capital Corp., and its subsidiary, TCS Fuel, were targeted in a ransomware attack, Apex said Monday that it’s business as usual.

La banda de ransomware BlackByte se atribuye la responsabilidad del fallo de la red de la empresa de factoring

After initially blaming an “unplanned system outage” for its computer networks being knocked offline since early Monday, Apex Capital Corp. and its subsidiary, TCS Fuel, confirmed late Tuesday that both companies’ systems were targeted in a malware attack.

Karen Webster, CEO of PYMNTS.com, discussed the importance of cross-border e-commerce businesses using embedded payment platforms with LianLian Global’s David Messenger and David Emerson of Seko Logistics at FreightWaves’ Supply Chain Meets FinTech event on Wednesday

A court-appointed receiver is working to get hundreds of truckers’ accounts receivable paid nearly three weeks after a legal feud between brothers led to the abrupt shutdown of CoreFund Capital, a Texas-based factoring company.

Logistics technology provider Slync.io announced Friday it has fired Chris Kirchner as CEO and removed him as chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Timothy F. Kehoe será el presidente interino del proveedor de tecnología logística

Truckers being sued by the city of Oakland and port commissioners over a weeklong protest over AB5 are claiming a small victory Monday after Alameda County Superior Court Judge Delbert Gee didn’t immediately grant the temporary restraining order port officials were seeking.

Los camioneros citados en la demanda del Puerto de
Oakland se enteraron el viernes de que debían comparecer
ante el tribunal el lunes

Hundreds of small-business truckers who use CoreFund Capital to factor their accounts receivable are struggling to stay afloat after the company abruptly closed its doors.

Slync.io CEO Chris Kirchner retaliated against some executives at the financially troubled company after learning he was being suspended, a source says.

Chris Kirchner ‘no se preocupaba por nosotros… todo giraba en torno a él’

As truckers protest for the fifth day, workers at the Port of Oakland have been busy setting up orange barricades at all four of the marine terminals in case demonstrations over controversial state law AB5 spill over into next week.

Port of Oakland officials are imploring truckers to end their protest over AB5 as the independent contractors prepare to block the terminals for the fourth day on Thursday, bringing container movement at California’s third-largest port to a standstill.

Aldi, one of the fastest-growing grocery chains in the U.S., has been named a FreightWaves Shipper of Choice in 2022.

Around 450 protesters opposing California’s independent contractor law, AB5, were blocking all of the terminal gates at the Port of Oakland, forcing TraPac and Oakland International Container Terminal, also known as SSA, to close operations on Wednesday.

Approximately 100 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 refused to cross the protest line Tuesday as owner-operators blocked the gates of the SSA terminal, which is the largest operator at the Port of Oakland, in opposition of California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.

After a slow showing early Monday morning, an estimated 400 owner-operators managed to shut down truck traffic at all three terminals — SSA, TraPac and Everport — at the Port of Oakland to protest California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.

Algunos camioneros del puerto quieren volver a protestar el martes

Some California truckers turned off their trucks, blocked terminals or staged slow rolls to snarl traffic around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday to express frustration over a controversial state law, AB5, that seeks to limit the use of independent contractors and largely classify them as employee drivers.

Some California truckers who move containers in and out of the marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to participate in a work stoppage Wednesday to protest a controversial state law, AB5.

Los camioneros de Oakland prometen una protesta similar el lunes contra la ley de contratistas independientes

Despite Slync.io CEO Chris Kirchner’s claims that the FreightTech company “has solved its liquidity issues,” former and current employees say they want him to make good on his promises and pay them for the two months of wages they are owed.

Antiguos trabajadores y conductores afirman que la dirección dirigió el transportador LTL ‘hasta la saciedad’

Three days after nearly 450 employees, including 135 drivers, were laid off, Williston, Vermont-based LandAir’s management team and its private equity owners have yet to disclose what led to the decision.

Beginning Thursday through July 17, hazmat haulers will be forbidden from traveling on Interstate 59/20 through downtown Birmingham, Alabama, as the World Games open.

La compañía de camiones de propiedad privada tenía 135
conductores y 148 unidades de potencia

Employees of Williston, Vermont-based LandAir, an LTL carrier that serviced the Northeast and parts of Canada, say they had no advanced notice that the company was reportedly closing its doors on Tuesday.

After a new fraud charge was leveled against Nikola founder Trevor Milton earlier this week, his attorneys are seeking a 30-day delay to review the documents.

After initially blaming an internal administrative error for the failure to pay its North American employees for nearly a month, Dallas-based logistics tech startup Slync.io stated Thursday that its “inability to timely liquidate funds” is the real reason for its ongoing payroll nightmare.

Global 3PL Neovia Logistics Services recently announced plans to cut nearly 100 jobs at its Tannersville, Pennsylvania, facility on July 29.

Convoy recorta 90 empleados mientras crece el temor al empeoramiento de la situación económica

Digital freight startup Convoy confirmed Friday that it is cutting 7% of its workforce in an effort to slash operating costs amid concerns about a downturn in the economy and its potential impact on the company’s customers’ businesses.

Some truckers who joined the People’s Convoy are angry with organizers over the protest’s collapse and the fate of the $1.8 million raised from supporters.

Los fiscales afirman que los estafadores utilizaron los fondos para comprar una mansión de 9 millones de dólares, un yate de 48 pies y varias propiedades

A Florida trio was recently sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a $200 million infant formula fraud scheme.

As thousands of exhibitors and attendees convened in Northwest Arkansas last week, many were introduced to Coleman Warren and the business he founded, Simple+Sweet Creamery, to fight child hunger.

A California trucking and logistics company, which contracts with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

La compañía dice que ningún papel de conductor, centro de servicio o mantenimiento se vio afectado por los despidos

Chattanooga-based U.S. Xpress announced Thursday that it is cutting 5% of its corporate workforce in an effort to slash costs a week after the truckload carrier reported losing more than $8.9 million in the first quarter.

Convoy, a digital trucking network, is collaborating with sustainability partners like CHEP to solve industry challenges by eliminating waste, eradicating empty miles and cutting out inefficiencies.

Transfix uses machine-learning technology to help shippers and carriers optimize their freight networks.

Turvo uses cutting-edge technology to connect shippers, logistics providers and trucking companies through its cloud-based TMS platform.

Lean Solutions Group is seeking to revolutionize the way the U.S. logistics industry operates by providing staffing and nearshoring services in South America.

A 67-year-old Missouri trucking company that hauled mail for USPS shut down and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after losing contracts.

CSA Business Solutions dijo a los inversionistas que tenía 4,707 camiones cuando sólo tenía 2, dicen los fiscales

A previously convicted fraudster ran a Ponzi scheme and bilked investors out of $40 million in a truck investment venture, then used the money to pay personal expenses, feds say.

Además del veredicto de 10 millones de dólares, Marvin Keller se ve afectada por “el aumento del combustible y otras condiciones del mercado

An Illinois-based trucking company has filed Chapter 11, citing a jury award of $10 million in December following a 2019 fatal truck crash involving one of its drivers.

Jonathan Hoffman and Andrew Wishnia discuss how the transportation sector is addressing climate change on Friday at FreightWaves’ 2022 Net-Zero Carbon Summit.

Balic, propietario de Northwest Transportation Inc, está libre bajo una fianza de 100.000 dólares sin garantía

The owner of a Michigan-based trucking company is free on bail after DEA agents arrested him on gun and drug charges after raiding his home and businesses.

The family of a Maine commercial fisherman who was struck and killed by an Amazon delivery driver in July 2020 recently filed a negligence lawsuit against the e-commerce giant.

Global logistics giants Geodis and Ceva plan to lay off 450 workers in the Columbus, Ohio area by Sept. 30.

Family-owned trucking company, L.W. Miller Cos. of Logan, Utah, says it will shut down its livestock division on Monday.

El consejero delegado culpa a “la escasez de conductores, el aumento de los costes, los márgenes extremadamente ajustados y las tarifas de flete

La Patrulla de Carreteras de Wyoming dice que Cozad Towing ha sido suspendido de la rotación anteriormente

An Ohio-based trucking company says black ice caused one of its drivers to jackknife on Interstate 80 in Wyoming, but that the real shock was a $46,800 tow bill.

Los datos muestran que el transportista con sede en Indiana superó los umbrales de seguridad en la conducción no segura y el cumplimiento de las Horas de Servicio

An Indiana-based trucking company recently filed bankruptcy, more than a month after receiving an unsatisfactory rating from FMCSA.