Tagged: Lawsuits

Nikola Motors founder Trevor Milton-Fraud

Court Convicts Nikola Founder

Court convicts Nikola founder on securities fraud and 2 counts wire fraud. Was Nikola Motors founder Trevor Milton a โ€œcon man,โ€ or just overly enthusiastic? A jury in Manhattan apparently agreed with the prosecutor thatโ€ฆ

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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...

Yellow Corp Truck

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.

Roadrunner Transportation Former CFO Gets 2-years

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 andโ€ฆ

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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 andโ€ฆ

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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.Sโ€ฆ

Even without a pandemic, U.S. trucking was looking at a tough time this year. When the year began, the industry was coming off a challenging 2019, when overcapacity and weak pricing forced at least 795 trucking companies to close. Itโ€™s important to note that a great many small carriers close every year. Thatโ€™s because a disproportionate number of them are lightly funded, one-person operations. Still, closings last year were inordinately high, according to industry studies.

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. Attorneyโ€™s Office Eastern District of Louisiana announced that 11 people hadโ€ฆ

Intermodal Containers at Port in Parc de Montjuรฏc, Barcelona, Spanien

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 Associationsโ€™ (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.

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