Five new indictments have been handed down by the U.S. attorney in the New Orleans-area scam to stage collisions with trucks and collect insurance dollars.
An NLRB action is being viewed by the Teamsters as providing an incentive for companies to consider independent contractors as employees.
The waiver the EPA granted to California to allow its Clean Trucks rule to proceed has states lined up in court on either side of the issue.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is recommending a long list of fixes to the problem of large verdicts in truck accident litigation.
Two completely different approaches taken by two different circuit courts over broker liability could result in another trip to the Supreme Court on the issue.
The 7th Circuit on Tuesday ruled in favor of the freight brokerage industry regarding negligence claims.
A former third-party CDL skills tester in Idaho was recently sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a three-year bribery scheme.
Neither DAT nor Convoy would be able to refile lawsuits against each other that they have agreed to drop.
Western Global Airlines has hit hard times, losing Amazon as a primary customer, piling up debt and facing at least two lawsuits.
California’s Supreme Court will review a lower court and appellate court decision to settle the question of Prop 22’s constitutionality.
Western Global Airlines appears to be winding down operations for a potential bankruptcy.
The owner of Florida-based Royal Bengal Logistics has been arrested on fraud charges in connection with a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
California has made its case in the latest round of AB5 legal proceedings, and it can cite the past trucking year in its arguments.
A request by the Department of Labor in an ongoing legal appeal suggests its independent contractor rule won’t be made until August or September.
In the so-called Atlanta Opera case, the National Labor Relations Board overturned an earlier precedent that made it easier to define workers as independent contractors.
Nineteen states want an appellate court review of an EPA waiver that allows California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule to proceed.
A federal grand jury recently indicted two former trucking employees of MH Group, alleging the pair orchestrated an elaborate wire fraud scheme to defraud the Texas-based carrier out of $1.4 million.
Since leaving Total Quality Logistics in April 2021, ex-broker Jacob Patterson has been embroiled in a legal battle with the Cincinnati-based freight brokerage over claims that he has violated his noncompete agreement twice in the past two years.
A 5-year-old judgment against Werner has been upheld on appeal by a Texas court, with the amount now standing at more than $100 million.
The so-called Olson case over AB5 draws interest from well beyond California.
DAT’s breach-of-contract claim against Convoy will also proceed.
U.S. Xpress, about to be sold to Knight-Swift, has settled 4-year old litigation regarding its initial public offering.
In the latest bid to block the AB5 independent contractor law from implementation in California’s trucking sector, two key groups are quoting the author of the law.
The final panel at the TIA annual meeting echoed a theme of the whole meeting: Double brokering and fraud are surging.
The potential widening of broker liability in the Miller case against C.H. Robinson is creating fears among 3PLs, but attorneys see a potential reversal.
A case involving the theft of expensive freight may have led to a legal precedent benefiting brokerage liability.
Four former executives at Polar Air Cargo were indicted on charges of defrauding the company through an elaborate kickback scheme.
The suit by the California Trucking Association and OOIDA against California’s AB5 independent contractor law will add an argument that succeeded elsewhere.
App-based companies fighting AB5 in California got a second court win last week as a three-judge panel cited statements by AB5’s author in its ruling.
A three-judge panel has reversed a lower court ruling that California’s Proposition 22 was unconstitutional.
A former FedEx Ground contractor, accused of killing 7-year-old Athena Strand of Paradise, Texas, pleaded not guilty to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges on Monday during his arraignment hearing in Wise County, Texas.
What if the English trucker who made off with 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs was trying to spare innocent taste buds?
Federal prosecutors allege UPS workers took possession of the drug, and a third worker not employed by the company provided fraudulent mailing labels.
The former safety manager of two California trucking companies was sentenced to three years of probation for his role in an illegal cargo tank repair conspiracy.
Lawmakers in Iowa and Florida are considering bills to curb nuclear verdicts against trucking companies.
Seven people have been sentenced this month in the Louisiana truck collision scam.
Prosecutors allege former Slync CEO Chris Kirchner misappropriated over $28 million from the company he helped launch to fund his lavish lifestyle.
The U.S. Postal Service is canceling its mail contract with a California-based trucking company with a history of safety violations and drivers who were involved in two fatal crashes in the past two years.
Former Celadon trucking officials have settled a fraud case with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The former co-owner of an Iowa trucking company was sentenced Tuesday for orchestrating an elaborate $250,000 check kiting scheme. He is also facing unrelated charges in state court that he allowed more than 800 pigs to starve or freeze to death in his care in December 2021.
Three defendants who pleaded guilty in the Louisiana staged accident scam will get probation, not jail time.
The California Trucking Association is making its pitch for another injunction to keep AB5 out of the state’s trucking sector.
Nearly 1,400 delivery drivers will split $5.6 million following an eight-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which found that Parts Authority Arizona LLC and Diligent Delivery Systems misclassified its employee drivers as independent contractors.
Already serving nearly seven years in federal prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from the trucking company where she worked, a Missouri bookkeeper was sentenced to two more years for committing Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud.
Amanda May, 36, of Whitesville, Kentucky, has filed a motion to intervene in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by her mother’s partner, Spangle The Clown, against Lala Trucking Inc. and one of its drivers.
California’s ABC test was a key reason why a decade-long misclassification case against Hub Group settled.
An appellate court that will determine whether the Prop 22 gig worker vote in California is constitutional recently heard arguments.
An Indiana trucking company owner claims his office manager of over 20 years — along with her husband — stole more than $600,000 from his affiliated companies over a five-year period.
A tax code throat punch promises to make gig work and online selling as fun as a trip to the morgue and as profitable as the average Mega Millions ticket.
Kevin Shaw, a Memphis, Tennessee-based truck company owner, and financial adviser Lisa Evans were indicted on charges of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
Parties in the still ongoing litigation surrounding AB5 and trucking have a new calendar that forecloses any new injunction until at least May.
UFI abruptly shuttered in November. Companies have been unable to retrieve their assets from the closed-up facilities.
After months of quiet, the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Louisiana extracted two more guilty pleas in the Louisiana staged accident scam.
The owner of a pair of trucking companies got 10 years in federal prison for lots of things, including a welding explosion that killed a worker.
A North Carolina trucking company owner said he wanted to buy a used truck but is now in a long legal battle to get back cash confiscated by police who thought it was part of a drug deal.
Gmail accounts allegedly connected to FourKites made accusations of accounting fraud and organized crime to project44 board members and executives.
The Department of Labor is seeking comments on its proposed independent contractor rule, and the trucking world is stepping up.
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.
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.
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.
Two key provisions in the Department of Labor’s proposed independent contractor rule could pose problems for transportation companies.
PayCargo won its trademark case against CargoSprint, which was hit with $11.6 million in damages.
California’s legal victory allowing it to impose workplace rules on flight attendants has some cargo airlines worried about states regulating their operations.
The federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination has sued a New York-based trucking company for not hiring females.
The Federal Trade Commission plans on getting involved in questions of independent contractor status.
Just a few days after the state of California tried to keep OOIDA out of the ongoing AB5 case, a judge has let the group in.
A federal judge has ruled that Rhode Island’s “RhodeWorks” toll system discriminates against trucks and is unconstitutional.
California is pushing back against the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s attempt to become an intervenor in the ongoing CTA lawsuit over AB5.
Former Celadon executives that are being sued by TA Dispatch have won a request to have the case moved to Delaware.
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.
A Texas court has reversed a $7.4M gross negligence verdict against a trucking company and its driver.
A contract agreement between Universal Logistics and the Teamsters union will bring a group of Southern California drivers in compliance with AB5.
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.”
Using the economic realities test, an appellate court backed a lower-court ruling that a group of drivers were independent contractors, not employees.
The injunction that has kept California’s AB5 independent contractor law at bay since the end of 2019 has been formally lifted.
Everybody thought the legal wrangling over California’s AB5 was done, but a court hearing Monday says otherwise.
A bill that would make thefts of private-sector parcel deliveries a felony is the latest step in efforts to curb a growing problem.
DAT accuses Convoy of contract violations. Convoy calls DAT a “monopolist” looking to thwart competition at any cost.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a fraud case against two former Celadon trucking company executives.
An appellate court reversed a lower court decision and found that a one-time Schneider independent contractor was actually an employee.
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.
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.
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.
TransForce, long a provider of drivers to carriers, is rolling out its proposal for independent contractor compliance with AB5.
California’s trucking sector is looking at numerous ways to keep in compliance with AB5, but is doing so without specifics on what’s right and wrong.
California’s trucking sector is likely to be upended now that it will need to deal with AB5, the state’s more rigid independent contractor law.
California’s trucking sector must now brace for the imposition of AB5’s rules on independent contractors as the court rejects overturning pro-AB5 appellate decision.
California’s AB5 law will remain blocked from implementation in the state’s trucking sector for now as the Supreme Court remains silent.
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.
Bailey’s Trucking and its owner were charged with making false representations on an application to receive money through the Paycheck Protection Program.
A regional NLRB decision says an STG unit in California that had been owned by XPO treated workers like employees, and it has ordered a unionization vote for them.
“We are pleased with this settlement as it creates a common understanding in close cooperation and coordination with the authority on the future handling of demurrage and detention charges in the U.S.,” Hapag-Lloyd said.
The Supreme Court said that a Southwest Airlines employee doesn’t need to go through arbitration to pursue a claim for overtime pay.
The California Trucking Association filed its brief to the Supreme Court, laying out arguments why the court should review AB5 in the state’s trucking sector.
Police said the truck driver admitted using a meth pipe as he damaged a shopping center and totaled two vehicles, including his.
Two more individuals were sentenced for their involvement in the Louisiana staged accident scam, showing the wide divergence of punishment so far.
A case involving C.H. Robinson before the U.S. Supreme Court got the same recommendation from the solicitor general as the better-known AB5 lawsuit in California.
A Florida trio was recently sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a $200 million infant formula fraud scheme.
