As more than 2 million Ukrainians have fled their country in the past 13 days since Russia launched a military invasion, several U.S.-based trucking and logistics companies have donated money, while others, including nonprofit groups, have raced to the region to provide direct humanitarian relief to refugees.

A Norfolk Southern spokesman said Saturday he’s unclear whether two cavers will face trespassing charges after they were rescued early Wednesday in a cave located on railroad property at the base of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee.

Pamela Milacek, de la AFCLF, tiene órdenes de detención activas en Texas

As U.S. truckers continue their cross-country journey, dubbed the People’s Convoy, to Washington to protest government mandates regarding COVID-19, an executive with the American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms, an organization that is collecting funds on the truckers’ behalf, has a criminal past in Texas.

A Kansas-based trucking company, cited several times for safety violations for both its drivers and equipment, recently filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

While U.S. trucking company owner Bogdan Golosinskiy left Ukraine with his family when he was 9 years old, he says he can’t ignore the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Un ex conductor afirma que Elite lo despidió por negarse a conducir equipos inseguros

El fundador de MP&ES afirma que un importante cliente “no pagó un proyecto” de más de 2,5 millones de dólares

A South Carolina company that remanufactured locomotives and provided railcar servicing and repairs filed Chapter 7.

More than 22 years after Oregon truck driver Roger Kelly was fatally shot while parked for the night in a dirt lot near the Best Western Hotel in Fernley, Nevada, his murder remains unsolved.

Drawing on the intense media attention gained by defiant Canadian truck drivers and opponents of government mandates regarding COVID-19, some U.S. truckers have launched their own cross-country effort, the “People’s Convoy.”

Nosotros somos el poder en este país, no ellos, el gobierno; ellos trabajan para nosotros”, dice el camionero

Brown Bear Transportation announced Monday that it is expanding its reach throughout the Northeast with the recent acquisition of Abenaqui Carriers.

FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill and Teclo Garcia, economic development director for the city of Laredo, discuss supply chain bottlenecks during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

El abogado dice que Interesting Logistics se vio obligada a cerrar tras la muerte de su principal accionista

Former drivers, truck and trailer rental companies and fuel businesses are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a Massachusetts logistics company filed Chapter 7.

El gigante del transporte dice que el funcionamiento del sistema ha vuelto a la normalidad

Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber and Steve Ferreira, CEO of Ocean Audit Inc., discuss international shipping on Monday during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

Schneider National is blaming a “firmware defect” tied to an external vendor’s equipment for a massive network outage that knocked the trucking giant offline on Thursday.

Trucking giant Schneider National confirmed on Friday that a “temporary systems issue” is to blame for a massive outage that has knocked out the company’s network since Thursday.

Besides the daily challenges drayage truckers face to keep their small businesses afloat at the Port of Oakland, some are questioning whether they will be operating this time next year.

The organizers of The People’s Convoy released a statement late Thursday that their group “has no intention or plans” to protest the Super Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday.

RacePro Products dice que no hay fondos disponibles para más de 400 acreedores a los que se les debe colectivamente 56 millones de dólares

Nearly 420 trucking and logistics companies are collectively owed millions of dollars after a California oil distributor ceased operations and filed Chapter 7.

OOIDA is urging U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to exempt cross-border truckers from vaccine rules implemented in mid-January.

Los federales afirman que Egbon gastó los fondos de los
inversionistas en aviones privados, clubes nocturnos y villas
de lujo

Los camioneros estadounidenses planean un convoy a Washington

The owner of a Wisconsin fuel company admitted he defrauded investors out of nearly $6.3 million over a two-year period.

Owner-operators and independent contractors say the defunct LTL carrier owes them thousands in escrow and maintenance funds, along with safety bonuses.

El posponer el lanzamiento de Project Infinity se debe a fallos informáticos; los representantes de las compañías desconfían de la eliminación del elemento humano

Computer glitches are being blamed for the delay of the Project Infinity rollout that some fear could break up long-standing relationships with carriers.

A federal grand jury indicted two former trucking employees of Roadrunner Temperature Controlled, alleging the pair orchestrated a scheme to steal nearly $113,000.

La intención sigue siendo pagar las vacaciones acumuladas”,
dice una fuente de la empresa

Ascend announced Tuesday that it is expanding its footprint with the acquisition of Dedicated Transportation Solutions.

The owner of an Iowa trucking company was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a seven-year, $1.4 million payroll tax scheme.

In the aftermath of Central Freight Lines’ abrupt closure five weeks ago, many of the company’s 2,100 employees, including 1,325 truck drivers, are struggling with paycheck concerns and questions about when or if they will receive vacation pay and unemployment benefits, while others claim they were subjected to unsafe working conditions at the company’s headquarters in Waco, Texas.

Freight consultant Chris Jolly and Shannon Breen of FreightVana discuss strategies to help transportation companies develop long-term relationships with clients.

Time is running out for trucking companies to upgrade or replace third-generation mobile devices to 5G network services or face possible violations if logging devices can’t function properly.

El acuerdo añadirá unos 120 conductores de camiones para
ampliar la red de transporte de mercancías de la empresa
con sede en Missouri

Christenson Transportation announced Monday that it is expanding its freight network with the recent acquisition of Sharp Transport Inc.

Somos como hongos: Nos mantienen en la oscuridad y nos
alimentan con un montón de mierda’, dice el ex empleado del
transportador cerrado

After finding out that Central Freight Lines was shuttering operations, hourly employees, including 1,325 truck drivers, learned that their final paychecks weren’t mailed out as promised before Christmas.

Si quieres saber algo, es esto: A K-Ratio le prohibieron la
entrada de por vida, a mí no’, dice Lintner

A national regulatory body has permanently banned the Chicago-based parent companies of K-Ratio X’s now-defunct fuel hedging program that targeted trucking companies from any futures trading.

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

A former Central Freight Lines employee claims the Waco,Texas-based less-than-truckload carrier violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its planned shutdown to nearly 2,100 employees and truck drivers, who found themselves without jobs two weeks before Christmas

CFL es la mayor empresa de camiones que cierra desde
Celadon en 2019

Project44’s Mike Edwards and Hannah Moore demonstrate how two of its pharmaceutical customers used its real-time visibility platform to improve a strategic partnership and supply chain operations at FreightWaves Domestic Supply Chain Summit on Wednesday.

Analysts, industry insiders and some of Central Freight Lines’ executives and drivers liken the LTL carrier’s demise to a “five-year death spiral” after the company lost a major customer, then acquired two failing companies.

‘’La conclusión es que nuestros empleados tienen muchas
oportunidades de trabajo si las quieren”’, dice Kalem

Central Freight Lines says rival LTL carrier Estes Express, based out of Richmond, Virginia, is interested in scooping up some of the Waco, Texas-based 2,100 drivers and employees, after FreightWaves broke the news Saturday that the LTL carrier was ceasing operations.

2.100 empleados serán despedidos justo antes de Navidad. Central Freight Lines es la mayor empresa de camiones que cierra desde que Celadon dejó de operar en 2019.

A source familiar with the 96-year-old company said he is unsure whether CFL will file Chapter 7 or “liquidate outside of bankruptcy,” but that the LTL carrier has no plans to reorganize.

A source familiar with the 96-year-old company said he is unsure whether CFL will file Chapter 7 or “liquidate outside of bankruptcy,” but that the LTL carrier has no plans to reorganize.

A Mississippi-based trucking company filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Tuesday, more than a year after its operating authority was revoked by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Treated Materials Trucking recibió un préstamo de 110.000
dólares de la APP 2 meses después de cesar sus
operaciones

La auditoría del Departamento de Transporte de Pensilvania
descubrió que la tasa de aprobación de CDL superaba el 90%,
significativamente más alta que la del promedio del estado

Federal investigators have charged a second man in connection with an ongoing probe into an alleged CDL scheme in Pennsylvania

A Louisiana trucker was recently sentenced to nearly six years in prison for drug trafficking. Rusty Ross Honore received a PPP loan two months after he was arrested by the feds in Dec. 2020.

The former CFO of Roadrunner Transportation Systems was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a complex securities and accounting fraud scheme on Tuesday.

The owner of a small Delaware-based trucking company described his driver, who was recently arrested and charged with holding a woman captive in his truck for nearly eight months, as “religious” and “a nice guy.”

Los investigadores afirman que el camionero mantuvo a la
víctima como rehén durante 8 meses en una litera

The owner of a tanker testing and repair company has been sentenced for lying to OSHA about an illegal repair to a fuel tanker that resulted in an explosion that severely injured him and another worker.

Despite reports that congestion issues are easing on the water at California’s major ports, drayage truckers claim this isn’t the case for them as efficiency issues continue to plague terminal operators.

The clock is ticking for truckers to upgrade or replace their third-generation (3G)-reliant ELDs — or face possible hours-of-service violations — as major cellular providers move to 5G network services in 2022.

AskWaves: La FMCSA advierte a los camioneros que actualicen los ELDs dependientes de 3G para evitar
infracciones.

A trucking trade group is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to enforce a state law to prevent terminal operators and ocean carriers from charging excessive per-diem and demurrage fees and using port truckers as “a convenient ATM to bolster their profits.”

Los camioneros de los puertos de California dicen que no hay
escasez de conductores – sólo hay que ver las filas de espera

Trucking companies dispute the widely reported message that a driver shortage is largely to blame for the port congestion issues in California. In fact, drayage companies are laying off drivers because of port delays.

Kukta recive más de 3 años en prisión

A former FedEx Ground senior manager was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a decadelong stolen-goods scheme.

Trucking companies, logistics firms and suppliers may be left in a lurch after an auto parts supplier filed bankruptcy after losing GM as a client.

JD Norman Industries reportó una caída de 86% en sus
ingresos desde 2019

Former trucking school execs Robert Waggoner and Emmit Marshall were sentenced for bilking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $4.2 million.

Recruiters are pulling out all the stops to attract truck drivers. But one trucker charity founder says carriers’ priorities change when tragedy strikes: They often retrieve the freight but fail to help the drivers’ families.

The ongoing supply chain crisis and lack of seafarers is leading to a global shortage of key commodities, Salvatore R. Mercogliano, an associate professor of history at Campbell University, told FreightWaves’ Anthony Smith at the virtual OceanWaves Summit on Wednesday.

Two fleetwide messages sent to drivers Tuesday from Tim Kohl, CEO of Marten Transport, thanked drivers for their patience “in working through some systems issues” the company started experiencing Sunday, but company executives have declined to issue a public statement.

Wisconsin-based truckload carrier Marten Transport was targeted in an apparent cyberattack that knocked out its operating system around 2:30 p.m. CDT on Sunday, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Tabitha Moshier spent six days getting her husband’s body home from Maryland to North Carolina after he was found dead in his rig. He had tested positive for COVID-19.

An Illinois man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding the family-owned trucking company where he worked of nearly $625,000.

An ongoing custody battle over his 9-year-old daughter caused Missouri truck driver J.T. McLean — who was a suspect in four homicides — to “snap,” his brother says.

Feds are attempting to claw back funds from trucking company owners and reality TV stars who vied for PPP loans.

Two nonprofit groups, Trucks with Room to Spare and CN Supply, are collecting donations, mobilizing to help Hurricane Ida survivors in southwest Louisiana.

A FreightWaves poll found that 65% of 1,120 truckers who responded have been vaccined but nearly 73% of the holdouts would quit if forced to “get the jab.”

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, truck driver Russell Vereen reflects on the 205 days spent working at a refrigerated trailer temporary morgue at ground zero.

The 19-day manhunt for a Missouri truck driver is over after he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday. He was tied to four homicides.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared a Massachusetts man an imminent hazard after commercial vehicle inspectors claim he crashed his rig into a telephone pole and fled the scene.

The clock is ticking for all 34 trucking companies that participated in K-Ratio X’s now-defunct fuel hedging program to sign a universal settlement agreement.

Train engineer Matt Parker of the BLET discusses why precision scheduled railroading isn’t about precision, but about profits.

A family-owned dry and liquid bulk trucking company ceased operations as of midnight Tuesday, leaving 342 drivers without jobs, sources say.

Trucking and logistics firms are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a Nevada-based bottled water company — linked to a hepatitis outbreak — filed Chapter 7.

Investigators believe a truck driver strangled his former girlfriend and drowned her 11-year-old daughter as the manhunt for a central Missouri truck driver enters its eighth day.

Investigators are seeking the public’s help in finding a Missouri trucker charged in the deaths of his girlfriend and her daughter as manhunt continues.

A Michigan truck driver was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for his role in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 64 that killed one man and injured another driver in Franklin County, Kentucky, in September 2019.

A Texas household goods trucking company with military contracts ceased operations and filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Tuesday.

In his keynote address at FreightWaves’ Cold Chain Summit on Wednesday, Sudarsan Thattai, CIO of Lineage Logistics, says the global leader is well positioned to address future supply chain challenges through technology investments and key alliances.

Trucking, logistics and airfreight companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a Texas freight forwarder filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week.

A federal jury found former Roadrunner Transportation Systems CFO Peter R. Armbruster guilty on four counts of violating federal securities laws in a $245 million securities and accounting fraud scheme. It acquitted two former controllers of Roadrunner’s truckload division.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared a North Carolina man an imminent hazard after commercial vehicle inspectors stopped him three times in three states in February and March and placed him out of service. FMCSA said he didn’t possess a valid CDL and containers of alcohol were found in his truck cab.

Several trucking and logistics companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after Consolidated Glass Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries — J.E. Berkowitz, Shaw Glass Holdings and Columbia Commercial Building Products — shuttered operations and filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in mid-July.