Tagged: Lawsuits

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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Navistar Must Pay Damages, Court Rules

Navistar, parent company of International Trucks, has been ordered by an Ohio-based jury to pay Dutch Maid Logistics, a 150-truck fleet out of Willard, Ohio, at least $1.3 million in damages relating to Navistarโ€™s now-defunctโ€ฆ

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Bottini Fuel Plead Guilty

Bottini Fuel of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty to falsifying business records and agreed to pay more than $3.2 million in restitution and civil damages, the New York Attorney General announced recently. The criminal convictionโ€ฆ

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Teamsters Fighting DOT Exemptions

The Teamsters Union has become more aggressive in its fight against the U.S. DOTโ€™s late-December decision to exempt motor carriers from California labor laws that require periodic meal breaks and paid rest breaks.
Last monthโ€ฆ

New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira

Court Sides With Trucking Contractor

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that legal disputes between carriers and independent contractors cannot be forced into arbitration even if their contractor agreements include an arbitration clause.
In an 8-0 decision issued last monthโ€ฆ

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