Trucking news & briefs for Tuesday, June 23, 2020:
Rand McNally releases 40th annual Motor Carriers’ Road Atlas
Rand McNally this week released its updated annual edition of the Motor Carriers’ Road Atlas, marking the 40th anniversary of the atlas. The atlases will be sold in travel centers, bookstores, online retailers and in Rand McNally’s online store.
The 2021 edition of the atlas – which features updated truck-accessible roads, state trucking regulations and fuel tax charts – is available in a paperback and a laminated spiral-bound edition, along with a large print edition.
This year, the atlases include:
Florida-based HHG moving company fined more than $1.2 million for deceptive practices
A south Florida moving company has been fined more than $1.2 million for deceptive practices, according the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General.
OIG reports Maxx J. Socher and his company, Moving Services Accounting and Storage Inc., which previously operates as Full Service Van Lines, was ordered by a court to pay $1,296,566 in restitution, legal fees and penalties.
The judgement was made in response to civil complaints filed by the Florida Attorney General’s office against seven individuals and their respective companies – a total of 19 household goods companies – for deceptive moving practices.
