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Business
FedEx pays $35.5M to settle claims of illegal cigarette trafficking
FedEx has agreed to pay more than $35 million to settle allegations brought by the state of New York that it illegally hauled untaxed cigarettes into the state over a 10-year period. The company added that it has issued “repeated requests” to New York City and the state of New York to identify shippers of the untaxed cigarettes, but neither has provided information.
January 18, 2019
Business
Dump-focused service launches in L.A. market
Online dump-truck-focused load platform Trux has opened for business with the greater Los Angeles market as the first step in an eventual national roll-out planned to take place over the course of the year.
January 17, 2019
Business
Port truckers land nearly $6M in classification claims
The California Labor Commissioner recently awarded nearly $6 million to 24 drivers who sued their carriers claiming they were misclassified as contractors. NFI did not own the two companies at the time the misclassification claims took place.
January 17, 2019
Business
Trucks flooded the spot market last week returning from holidays — rates fell 4-6 cents/mile nationally
Holidays are over, it’s certain. The large majority of the trucking world is back to work. The number of trucks posted on the spot truckload freight market increased 77 percent last week, well ahead of the 9 percent gain in available loads.
January 17, 2019
Channel 19
‘Secrets of trucking shall remain secret’: An elegy for the counter of knowledge
Gordon Alkire’s whimsical (but not all fun and games) take on so much that is gone into the past: the “In the sit-down diners was … the all-knowing, never-wrong counter of knowledge, usually manned by experts 24 hours a day.”
January 17, 2019
Business
I-10 Eastbound west of Phoenix closed this weekend for construction
Arizona Department of Transportation says crews will close I-10 EB between 67th and 35th avenues beginning at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18.
January 17, 2019
Truck Stops
Love’s plans to continue recent growth in 2019
The company plans to open more than 40 new locations this year with over 3,000 truck parking spaces and more Love’s Truck Tire Care and Speedco locations.
January 17, 2019
Channel 19
Govt. shutdown ripples out — though not toward military freight
And leased owner-op Jerry Boyd’s somewhat sanguine view on the year just ended, at odds with some independents running spot freight: “Everywhere you went,” Boyd said, “you could get a load of freight [with a good rate] – I’ve never seen it like that, just unload and reload.” …
January 16, 2019
Hours of Service
Though FMCSA operations unaffected, shutdown could delay hours of service revisions
Agency officials hinted in December that a notice of proposed rulemaking offering potential revisions to federal hours regs could come as early as March. But the lingering closure of federal agencies will impede FMCSA’s ability to proceed with the rulemaking process, the official said.
January 16, 2019
Business
Supreme Court’s arbitration ruling focuses on ‘one-man, one-truck’ operations
The Supreme Court’s arbitration agreement ruling on Tuesday is somewhat narrow in the questions it answered, but it most directly affects single-truck, interstate owner-operator set-ups, says transportation attorney Braden Core.
January 16, 2019
Business
Trucking rap sheet: Truckers plead guilty to shooting at vehicles with slingshot, running police off road, more
A number of trucking-related crimes have been reported recently by local news outlets in Illinois, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia and Utah. Reported criminal activity includes a trucker who ran a police officer off the road, a driver who shot at vehicles with a slingshot, stolen alcohol and drug trafficking.
January 16, 2019
Business
Hanover Logistics adds Pa. warehouse
Hanover Logistics purchased the former GlaxoSmithKline fulfillment center in Penn Township Industrial Park at 26 Barnhart Drive in Hanover, Pa., to “support our current and future customer’s needs as they grow.”
January 16, 2019
Business
Estes donates $1 million to various charities
The three charities to receive the largest donations of more than $100,000 each were the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Cancer Society and Wounded Warrior Project. Others receiving sizeable donations were Toys for Tots, Make-A-Wish and the Alzheimer’s Association.
January 16, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Time to require good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase agreements?
Owner-op Clifford Petersen asks whether it’s time for an update to the Truth in Leasing regulations to cover good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase contracts: “Maybe it’s time to make a stand and start eliminating predatory practices within our industry.”
January 15, 2019
Business
Supreme Court sides with trucker in arbitration clause case
In an 8-0 decision issued Tuesday, the nation’s high court sided with owner-operator Dominic Oliveira over his carrier, Prime Inc. The court ruled that legal disputes between carriers and independent contractors cannot be forced into arbitration.
January 15, 2019
Business
Driver named Highway Angel for assisting crash victims
Matthew Kondrick, a driver for Melton Truck Lines, was driving in a heavy rain and wind storm in July when he saw traffic breaking up ahead of him. “And then I noticed that a tree had come down and crushed two cars in front of me,” he said.
January 15, 2019
Trucker of the Year
Owner-operators compete for $25,000 prize
Danny Jewell, Kevin Kocmich and Robert Roth have been named finalists for the Owner-Operator of the Year contest.
January 15, 2019
Business
Bestpass passes 500,000-unit mark for toll service
The transponder-based single-source toll-management company, now with 78 employees, processes more than 238,000 toll transactions per day for nearly 6,000 customers in the United States and Canada.
January 15, 2019
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