Trucker Charged With Fraud
Trucker charged with fraud for avoiding $9 million in insurance premium payments San Antonio woman convicted of killing her husband while chasing his mistress on a highway has been charged with felony fraud relating...
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Yellow Corp Settles DOD Lawsuit
Yellow Corp settles DOD lawsuit in which the less-than-truckload carrier was alleged to have incorrectly charged for freight shipments from 2005 to 2013. The Defense Department complaint alleged overcharging for carrier services.
Former Employee Claims Central Freight Lines Broke Law
Former Central Freight Lines employee claims the carrier violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its planned shutdown to nearly 2,100 employees and truck drivers, who found themselves without jobs two weeks before Christmas.
Former CFO Gets 2-year Sentence
A former chief financial officer (CFO) of Roadrunner Transportation Inc. has been sentenced to two years in person for his role in an accounting fraud scheme that led the company to restate its earnings and…
Former Trucking Firm Owner Indicted
A former trucking company owner was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in New York in an alleged conspiracy to defraud the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) about the company he controlled and…
Truckers Unite Against Freight Broker
A coalition of trucking companies filed a petition in May to force an Indianapolis, Ind.-based freight brokerage into Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings for unpaid transportation services. The involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition, filed in U.S…
Feds Charge 11 With Staging Crashes
Feds Charge 11 with staging crashes following a widespread investigation into staged crashes targeting truckers and their insurance companies. In late August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana announced that 11 people had…
ATA Sues Over Chassis Use
The U.S. Federeal Maritime Commission (FMC) has assigned to its Office of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) a complaint from the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) alleging massive overcharges for container chassis use in recent years. FMC received the complaint from the association on Aug. 17.
Judge Rules FTS Intl Will Get New Trial
An appeals court has ordered a new trial in a 2018 “nuclear verdict” case that was believed to be the largest trucking verdict in the country’s history, saying the award was excessive. In 2013, a…
Truck Driver Wins Suit Against His Boss
A truck driver who fell asleep and was injured while driving along Interstate 59 in Alabama in 2015 was awarded $80 million by a Texas jury after suing his bosses for forcing him to falsify…
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