At FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival, trucking-focused attorney Matthew Leffler said the $100 million-plus Werner case is “the most important case facing the trucking industry now.”
Ryan Joyce, a former CIA operations officer, drew on his experience tracking terrorist networks to execute the company strategy to fight freight fraud.
Freight Masters Inc. owner Herman Shaw was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program.
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.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Fraud Watch, FreightWaves’ dedicated newsletter tackling the burgeoning crisis of freight fraud.
A Florida jury awarded $125 million in punitive damages and $16.5 million in other damages against a small trucking company that no longer exists.
California’s attorney general’s office has filed a brief against OOIDA’s attempts to block the AB5 independent contractor law from the state’s trucking sector.
The freight industry must take a series of steps to combat an epidemic of fraud.
Bipartisan bills including the Safeguarding Our Supply Chains Act and the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023 propose significant federal support to address the increase in freight fraud and organized retail crime.
Two incendiary devices bound for delivery by DHL from Europe to North America were discovered this summer, prompting Western officials to investigate their origin.
A group with trucking interests as a key driver has been formed in Texas to push new tort reform.
A former bookkeeper for an Iowa trucking company was sentenced to two years in prison after a guilty plea.
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.
As FreightVana CTO Don Everhart moves into his new role at Transflo, he answers FreightWaves’ questions on hot FreightTech topics.
EFW, a company that specializes in passenger-to-freighter conversions, is shutting down its U.S. assembly plants because of shortages in skilled labor and other problems that have delayed delivery of large aircraft to Amazon.
According to a new report by Becker Logistics, cargo theft varies seasonally and by mode and location.
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.
Trucking and marijuana use was the background issue in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding a driver who was dismissed for failing a THC test even though he hadn’t used marijuana.
Backers of California’s AB5 independent contractor law have scored a fresh victory after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Postmates/Uber case.
The first-ever Freight Fraud Awareness Day, taking place on Tuesday, aims to unite the supply chain community in tackling schemes like double brokering and cargo theft, which have seen a 400% rise since 2022.
A demand spike in truckload markets can leave independent drivers particularly vulnerable to fraud and theft.
In this edition: TIA releases its ‘State of Fraud’ report and Forward Air remains chaotic.
NFI CEO Sidney Brown has filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss his criminal indictment stemming from a New Jersey real estate dispute.
A second front will be opened in the legal battle over whether Amazon is a joint employer of drivers along with its delivery service partners.
A Wyoming trucking company owner is facing an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging that he sexually harassed multiple female employees.
As cybercriminals evolve, companies must adopt cutting-edge defense strategies to protect their operations from significant financial and reputational damage.
Another executive at Polar Air Cargo has been sentenced to prison for defrauding the company for more than a decade.
NFI CEO Sidney Brown and other defendants in the criminal case related to the Camden, New Jersey, waterfront redevelopment have moved for dismissal.
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.
A high-level executive at a prominent air cargo company was sentenced to prison for defrauding the company.
Freighter operator Western Global Airlines will pay $85,000 in backpay to female workers to comply with federal rules.
The families of those who died in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore have filed wrongful death claims in federal court against the owner and operator of the container ship Dali.
A Transportation Intermediaries Association report says the freight industry is “under siege” from fraud and must evolve to fight the ballooning problem.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a federal suit against the owner and operator of the Dali, the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse.
Canadian supply chain SaaS provider Descartes acquired MyCarrierPortal, which provides brokers and shippers with carrier onboarding and risk monitoring tools.
U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce is spearheading an effort to have the Department of Homeland Security do more to combat organized retail crime in America.
Aaron Rudolf, who owns Rudy’s Performance Parts in Burlington, North Carolina, must pay $10 million in criminal and civil fines for an emissions defeat device scheme.
Daimler Truck North America is the latest trucking-related company to get hit with a nuclear verdict.
A driver who lost his job after taking a CBD product he thought didn’t have THC is about to argue before the Supreme Court that he should be able to sue the manufacturers under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Truckstop.com’s Brent Hutto discusses the company’s zero-tolerance policy toward fraud and its recent work with the FBI.
With fraud on the rise, verifying carriers has become one of the top ways shippers can fight fraud on the front lines.
The Department of Labor has clawed back hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay owed by Transair, a Hawaiian cargo airline that is no longer flying.
The Texas Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Werner Enterprises in a long-running, $100 million nuclear verdict case.
U.S. and Guatemalan authorities say they have dismantled a human smuggling enterprise in Guatemala responsible for the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio in 2022.
Christopher Carroll, 54, of Farmington, Missouri, was found guilty by a federal jury for fraudulently obtaining nearly $3 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds.
A former executive at Polar Air Cargo received jail time as punishment for defrauding the company.
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.
While the company continues to deny any wrongdoing, TuSimple has filed to settle its federal fraud case.
As nearshoring increases the volume of products carried across the U.S. border, seizures of illegal narcotics from freight are also on the rise.
Corey Louis Hendrickson, 46, a former mayor of Willard, Missouri, and fleet dispatcher for Prime Inc., was sentenced to three years in federal prison for a scheme in which he used the names and Social Security numbers of drivers to steal money.
A regional decision by the National Labor Relations Board undermines Amazon’s delivery service partner model and will force greater recognition of unionized workers by the retail giant across the country, according to the Teamsters union.
The Supply Chain Council has extended its executive team and plans to be a national rather than “California-first” organization.
The California Trucking Association is ending its long-fought legal battle against the state’s AB5 independent contractor law.
A Dallas family of seven has filed a federal lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and its driver after they were seriously injured in a crash involving an 18-wheeler last November.
The American Transportation Research Institute has launched a survey to study cargo theft in the trucking industry, which is estimated to be a $15 billion to $35 billion problem annually.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out the Surface Transportation Board’s streamlined process for resolving rate disputes between shippers and railroads.
Four people, including two children, are dead after a crash in Minnesota involving a semitruck in a construction zone.
A federal court decision on an Illinois employment law could pose a legal threat to carriers well beyond the state’s borders.
Two Midwest importers have settled a customs fraud case with the U.S. government for $10 million.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Thursday removed two ELDs from its registered list.
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.
Pilot Air Freight, an international freight shipping and logistics company, will pay $400,000 to settle a 2019 disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
ATA and OOIDA are at odds in a very public way over the Biden administration independent contractor rule.
Gerald Ditz, who goes by Jerry, and Michael Alaniz, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in a stolen watch scheme.
The Teamsters union claimed a legal victory in its pressure campaign for collective bargaining at Amazon’s primary air hub in northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati.
OOIDA, in its appeal in California’s AB5 independent contractor law case, raised the law’s B2B exemption as an issue.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for allegedly refusing to hire a deaf truck driver.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week seized 3,400 pounds of methamphetamine on the Southern border and 266 pounds of cocaine on the Northern border – all on the same day.
The CEO of truckload carrier NFI pleaded not guilty in a New Jersey political corruption case.
A proposed shift in how tax revenue generated by freight movements is allocated among states has hit a dead end.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Energy Fuels Resources Inc. would voluntarily halt transporting uranium ore through Navajo Nation lands to Utah shortly after the tribe’s president issued an executive order banning the ore transport.
A federal lawsuit filed against the owners and operators of a cargo ship that sank off the Georgia coast in 2019 has been dismissed at the request of Glynn County.
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.
Charles Christian Haskell, 51, of Las Vegas, was charged with five counts of death by motor vehicle after a crash involving his tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Wilson County, North Carolina, on July 24.
The U.S.-flag subsidiary of shipping leviathan Maersk has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. government over the termination of a seaman who alerted authorities to potential unsafe conditions on a cargo vessel.without first notifying the company.
A Washington jury awarded $24.2 million to the former Port of Seattle police chief, who was fired three years ago and sued the port, alleging wrongful termination.
Jacob McDonald, 60, was indicted by a Licking County grand jury for his role in a Nov. 14 crash that killed six people, including three high school students.
The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld the exemption from independent contractor law AB5 that Prop 22 granted to gig drivers.
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A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by nonprofit Environment California accuses the Port of Los Angeles of violating the Clean Water Act.
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.
The nation’s trucking regulator has told Congress it lacks the ability to deal effectively with illegal brokers.
NullShip Shipping Solutions claims to sell U.S. Postal Service and UPS labels at a steep discount but sold clients counterfeit postal labels, costing one person thousands of dollars in lost goods.
A two-year process to determine how to value freight for state income tax purposes may be coming to a head.
A $10 million lawsuit by a Georgia man whose pickup was rear-ended by a truck driven for a South Carolina amusement rides company will be heard in federal court.
The brokerage industry, this time TQL, has won another court victory, shielding it from liability stemming from a carrier it hired.
A Texas truck driver rescued a 1-year-old baby found in a Louisiana ditch after his 4-year-old brother was found dead.
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.
The key court battle to block the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule is in Louisiana, and a request for an injunction against the rule has been taken a step up in the federal courts.
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents rescued 23 migrants who were locked inside a train car stationed in Laredo, Texas on Tuesday.
Frances Hall has pleaded no contest to charges she was part of a multimillion dollar fraud scheme while she was co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking.
NFI CEO Sidney Brown was not at the arraignment of his co-defendants in a New Jersey corruption case due to a lawyer conflict.
The Biden administration is pushing back the schedules for a list of rules that are being watched closely by trucking.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Monique Trucking to halt operations after declaring the California carrier “an imminent hazard to public safety” following a deadly crash.
A grand jury indicted Kirill Gordei, a Belarus citizen who lives in Florida and is president of Apelsin Logistics, on charges related to smuggling advanced scientific technology to Russia.
Dennis Winn of Clermont, Florida, was arrested on multiple charges, including a felony charge, of shooting a Walmart delivery drone.
Because insurers will be insulated from direct legal action under Georgia Senate Bill 426, the law may reduce their financial incentives to properly vet the trucking firms they insure.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Union Pacific, stating that plaintiff Le’Mon Bass failed to substantiate claims of racial discrimination and retaliation.
Tony Kirik operated Dallas Logistics, based in Rochester, New York, but concealed ownership and affiliation with another company to hide negative safety ratings.
