If the high court does not grant review and AB5 is implemented, the state’s trucking industry will look to a variety of solutions to be able to use independent contractors and still stay in compliance with the law.
Pilot Freight Services and Stevens Transport engaged in disability discrimination, according to separate lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Trucks release a lot of data. Two attorneys from the Benesch law firm discuss the ownership of that data on this week’s podcast.
Opponents of the legislation were particularly focused on a law known as PAGA.
Feds are attempting to claw back funds from trucking company owners and reality TV stars who vied for PPP loans.
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled the International Longshoremen’s Association cannot force the use of union labor at the Port of Charleston’s new Leatherman Terminal.
Workhorse decides to pursue alternative opportunities after ending its bid fight with the Postal Service.
After a period of guilty pleas and no new indictments, the case has now expanded further.
A law firm’s analysis of the Biden administration rule shows several unanswered questions.
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.
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.
Representatives from the trucking company defendants are either invisible or not speaking.
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.
If the remaining companies also settle, questions of whether there was a conspiracy not to hire drivers who owed money to previous employers may never be answered.
The previous “nuclear verdict” record is believed to be the more than $400 million award last fall, also in Florida.
The ruling by a judge at the county level is likely to be appealed and stayed before immediate implementation.
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.
If certiorari is denied, the injunction blocking AB5 from being implemented in the state will disappear immediately.
The decision is also seen as potentially being a legal precedent on the issue of non-compete contracts.
The latest guilty plea brings the total to 26, with four of them in just the past seven weeks.
A 3-judge panel was ready to rule on the carrier’s appeal, but a larger group of judges will now render an opinion.
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.
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.
One aspect of the decision that may stick is a clear ruling that owner-operators on a lease are independent contractors, not employees.
The Tuesday deadline imposed by K-Ratio to sign its universal settlement agreement or face legal ramifications passed without a consensus for the 34 trucking companies that participated in its fuel hedging program. The Chicago-based company abruptly shut down its fuel futures program in late June.
Federal prosecutors filed a motion Tuesday requesting the court dismiss all charges against ex-Pilot President Mark Hazelwood and two former sales team executives, Scott Wombold and Heather Jones. In October, a federal appellate court overturned Hazelwood’s conviction.
Trucking owner Carl Bradley Johansson is facing federal charges in an alleged PPP loan fraud scheme. He is also awaiting trial in a separate federal case for allegedly ordering welders to illegally repair an oil tanker that resulted in a fatal explosion in 2014.
Both defendants had pleaded guilty to their involvement in the staged accident scheme.
A lawyer who specializes in cyber incident responses gives the inside story of what happened after a ransomware attack hit a trucking company.
The number of guilty pleas in the various inductments is believed to stand now at 15.
The owners of three purported Georgia-based trucking companies are facing wire fraud and theft of government property charges after prosecutors claim Curtis and Dereen Porch set up shell companies to obtain $364,200 in PPP funds.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the California Trucking Association’s request to rehear the decision that lifted the injunction against California’s independent contractor law.
The broker seeks relief in a preemption battle by casting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a rogue light.
Oshkosh files to intervene in Workhorse’s lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service.
Two brothers have been embroiled in a yearslong dispute over how to sell off their cross-border trucking business so that each gets a fair share.
Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins sent a formal response to lawmakers seeking proof of compliance with the terms of the $700 million CARES Act loan.
The briefs filed by the trade groups seek to bolster arguments made by CTA but rejected in the split decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Legal woes force Illinois trucking company Mardon Trucking Inc. to cease operations and file Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week.
The general contractor on the wind project where the driver was working was stuck with the biggest share of the award, but two drivers also were assigned blame as well.
The 20-year battle over broker post-accident liability may be resolved once and for all.
Trucking owner Keith McConnell, 43, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is facing federal charges after prosecutors claim he used PPP funds for personal use.
A U.S. House subcommittee has launched an investigation into Yellow Corp.’s $700 million CARES Act loan.
Christen Diane Schulte, 35, of Washington, Missouri, was sentenced to six years and eight months in federal prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from a family-owned trucking company and farm.
The injunction blocking AB 5 is still in place for now.
In one case, the insurance and medical payouts totaled $275,500.
Illinois trucking company B & B Logistics Inc., cited several times for hours-of-service violations, shuttered operations and filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in mid-May.
One piece of legislation backed by the Texas Trucking Association is heading toward approval, while a second may not be necessary as a result of a court ruling.
Mark Hazelwood, the former president of Pilot Co., wants a federal judge to recuse himself from overseeing the retrial of a fuel rebate fraud case against him and two of his former staffers and also wants to have his case moved from Tennessee to another state.
The attorney who led the legal effort said U.S. chassis producers are ramping up because of the import fees.
The lower court ruling favored Uber in the summary judgment but drivers won on appeal.
A federal grand jury in New York has indicted trucking company owner Tony “Anatoliy” Kirik, 39, of Rochester, New York, in a reincarnated carrier scheme.
A Mexican auto parts supplier became the first company to receive a labor violation complaint under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Monday. The complaint against the Tridonex auto parts […]
Tremelle Sykes allegedly filed false reports covering railyard companies in Dallas, Fort Worth, Garland, Cleburne, Gunter and Saginaw, Texas.
The appeals process can be short or long, and the date when AB5 could be enforced remains in flux.
A coalition of trucking companies filed a petition on Monday to force Indianapolis-based freight brokerage CMA Freight Services LLC into Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings over unpaid transportation services.
In the next two weeks, only two container ships are slated to berth at the new Leatherman Terminal. Forty are scheduled at the Port of Charleston’s neighboring Wando Welch Terminal.
The rule was introduced in the waning days of the Trump administration but was never expected to be enacted.
By killing off Trump-era rules, the Biden administration has lots of room to make big changes in the independent-contractor-versus-employee debate.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a no-hire provision between two Pittsburgh-area logistics firms is not enforceable under commonwealth law.
The New Jersey Senate majority leader’s proposal would require communities near a proposed warehouse to have input but no veto power.
Getting around the B prong of the ABC test is going to be complicated for companies trying to use independent owner-operators in California.
The California Trucking Association lawsuit was able to hold off the law in the state’s trucking industry for 16 months, but the injunction it won has been overturned.
“Both Hapag-Lloyd and USMX were well aware that the work in question would have been handled by ILA members” if the vessel had gone to another port, the International Longshoremen’s Association lawsuit asserts.
Several trucking and logistics companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after an Indiana brokerage ceased operations and filed Chapter 7.
Roni Rae Brady, the former chief judge for the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, was sentenced to six months in prison for a scam that targeted truckers.
Prosecutors allege Oumar Sissoko, 59, of Temecula, California, who claimed to own a pothole repair company called Road Doctor California LLC, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury items after receiving $7.25 million in PPP loan funds.
The Defense Department lawsuit from 2018 is continuing even as the federal government has taken a stake in the LTL carrier.
Arguments in the appeal of the injunction keeping AB5 as California law were made in September; the industry still awaits the final word.
The Teamsters called it a strike even though no employed workers were believed to be on the picket line.
Truck drivers Brian T. Summerson, 25, of Dillion, South Carolina, and Pierre Washington, 35, of Chicago, have been charged in a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme.
An off-duty trucker charged with smuggling 13 bricks of cocaine from the U.S. to Canada via car was acquitted after maintaining that the drugs were planted while he was aiding a fellow driver with a repair at a rest stop.
Hubert Ivan Ugarte pleaded guilty to bribing a FedEx Ground manager in a pay-to-play scheme, and to defrauding the PPP loan program.
The decision in a suit brought against drayage company East Coast Transport affirms a finding in the earlier Cal Cartage case
Even as the relationship between Ryder and Chanje was hitting the rocks, Ryder continued to do new deals with the supplier of electric vehicles and touted its role in the company’s green plans.
The NLRB action is a gathering of earlier Teamsters actions against Universal, now pulled together in one filing by the government agency.
Reports of problems in the application process are widespread, but the PPP loans given out total more than $160 billion.
The new rules approved by the NLRB could be overturned by the Biden administration but only after a formal rulemaking.
The legal reason cited for the withdrawal is the elevation of two principles of “economic realities,” which the Wage and Hour Division says have not been used by courts in the past.
Michael Chaves, the former owner of a vehicle-transport carrier, gets 30 months in prison for forging DOT documents and failing to maintain driver certifications.
The remaining assets of bankrupt trucking company Comcar Industries will be liquidated through two trusts, leaving little for unsecured creditors.
The low number assigned to one of the key bills signifies it is a priority and is seen as a positive sign by the trade group.
The PRO Act would impact only the regulatory power of the National Labor Relations Act and is mostly targeted toward making unionization easier.
The Biden administration signaled on day one that it was going to roll back some late Trump administration rules; the independent contractor rule came out Jan. 7.
Some people think the B2B exception is almost hopeless, but others see it as difficult but still the only way the independent contractor mode can survive in the Golden State.
KeepTruckin is petitioning the National Transportation Safety Board to rescind its recommendation that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remove the company’s logging devices from its list of self-certified vendors following a fiery crash that killed seven motorcyclists.
The owners of defunct Westfield Transport Inc. of West Springfield, Massachusetts, were indicted on federal charges of falsifying driving logs on Friday. Prosecutors assert the Gasanov brothers hired Volodymyr Zhukovskyy two days before his involvement in a fatal crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire in June 2019,
An Illinois firm, Lions Logistics 1, which specialized in perishable foods and other time-sensitive loads, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, reporting a 96% drop in revenue in 2020.
The owner of two defunct California trucking companies, Royal Flush 89 Transport and Cuevas Transport, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday.
A legal battle is brewing in Texas over an insurance payout to the mother of one of the victims killed in a fatal truck crash involving the truck driver for Josiah’s Trucking of Edinburg, Texas.
While the opinion letters don’t have the force of law, they do suggest which way the new administration will go in classification of compensation issues
Uber recently sent out a white paper on its views of compensation and other benefits for its drivers in Europe.
A former accounting employee of a New Mexico-based trucking company pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling more than $1.1 million from her employer over a seven-year period.
Despite a last-minute pardon by former President Donald Trump in his criminal case, tech pioneer Anthony Levandowski’s legal woes continue after he was forced to file for bankruptcy protection on […]
David Owen West pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in federal court, admitting he orchestrated an elaborate scheme to defraud his former employer, Petco Petroleum Corp., out of more than $400,000.
Doctors have been identified in the lawsuit, a truck driver was fired after one “accident,” and C.R. England paid out over $4 million in a case.
Two GlobalTranz employees whose job classification changed have filed suit for overtime, but the suit seeks much larger class certification.
A California judge awarded $23.7 million, considered a “nuclear verdict” because it exceeds $10 million, to a motorcyclist whose lower leg was amputated after he was struck by a work truck in Los Angeles.
The former owner of Sisic Transport admitted to altering thousands of logbook entries for his drivers, using Omnitracs’ automatic onboard recording device software.
