Legal issues

Suit alleging millions in DoD overcharges centers on proper reweighing.

The charges are growing but there are signs that this lengthy dispute may be coming to an end.

Svindland expects to be back at work in early January.

The Chattanooga-based team at Block Array have launched a blockchain product they call FreightTrust, legal platform for shipping documents.

Cannabis is now legal in 10 states, but getting pot delivered to your home is not exactly like calling Uber Eats. And for would-be entrepreneurs, securing a license to deliver pot is no easy task.

Glider kit investigations initiated by Democrats and Republicans are expected to be concluded in early 2019.

Preparations by the freight industry to cope with the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) were thrown into more turmoil by Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to delay the Brexit debate indefinitely.

A major port operator in Australia is being sued in the nation’s Federal Court by the national competition watchdog, alleging an anti-competitive deal with a state government.

Main U.S. maritime agency’s probe into practices of ocean carriers and terminals winds down, but no changes yet seen.

If you don’t answer, if you don’t look into their eyes, you lose.” 

The decision in favor of Horizon turned on a narrow question of where one of the employees’ case should be heard.

Head of FMCSA and largest U.S. truck trade group say California attempting to preempt federal regulations.

A long list of concerns in the ATA President’s annual speech to his group’s conference, including young drivers and California’s own laws.

On the agenda for the day: AOBRD transition, personal conveyance, sleeper berth rule and plenty of other issues for FMCSA’s top attorney.

Surge in low-sulfur fuel use by ships could usher in two to three year period of uncertainty in refining industry.

But lead agency for commercial vehicle safety says autonomous trucking will serve drivers well and make industry better.

Even as the trucking industry struggles to identify new drivers, there is a segment of the U.S. population that is facing unemployment rates above 27% that are looking for jobs. Can felons fill the driver gap?

Also in the pickup: IMO meets with 2020 on the horizon; Rhine levels are causing plants to shut down; C.R. England and its charitable cause

It may mean less now in an era of higher pay, but if total hours don’t exceed the minimum wage, it could be an issue because of this ruling.

The latest on legislative, regulatory, administrative, and enforcement issues across the industry.

Most of the hit is coming from an arbitration award with BNSF. Its conference call with investors is a change in its normal practice.

Just weeks after a federal judge sided with the company and decertified a class of about 11,000 current and former drivers who filed suit, J.B. Hunt has reportedly reached a $15 million settlement with the drivers.

Logistics company argues that it has improved conditions at warehouse one year after its purchase.

New Prime vs. Oliveira aims to settle who can arbitrate and who is a transportation worker under Federal Arbitration Act.

It’s taken several years, but the eight biggest manufacturers of rear underride equipment now get the top grade from the IIHS.

The SEC announced that they have settled their lawsuit with the embattled Tesla CEO. Regardless of the outcome, shareholders win.

Update: Latest labor action brings attention to drayage drivers as NFI says union is trying to “force” representation on drivers.

“We are genuinely saints and sinners,” said Judge Collier, “and what we see in this white collar crime is the duality.” When the court is asked to consider all the good, it must also consider the laws that he broke again and again over a period of half a decade.

ATA chairman outline group’s legislative priorities for this year.

The lawsuit asserts that water “poured in through a gap in city levees,” and it says the gap was created by a railway underpass owned by CSX.

Today, the long-awaited final results are in.

What are the implications for independent owner-operators and the industry that employs them as a result of this week’s ruling in New Jersey?

We may have seen one of the most important legal decisions in the short life of cryptocurrencies. The precedent has been set that they can be regulated as securities.

Trucking association sought to take one tool from state regulators for classifying drivers as contractors or full-time employees.

While many in the brick-and-mortar retail businesses applaud the decision as an effort to even the playing field between online and traditional retail, others are concerned with the negative effects the decision is sure to have on small online businesses.

Union representing 14,500 employees says new deal aims to bring stability and peace to US docks.

Ocean carriers and terminals have seen a boom in the fees they charge for container usage. But U.S. regulators are looking at the practice.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth District sided with a truck manufacturer in a products-liability case claiming an alternative truck design would have prevented serious injuries obtained when a 19-year-old women crashed into the side of the vehicle.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act offers owner-operators more savings.

The Southern California International Gateway is no nearer completion 13 years after it was first proposed.

Maersk is taking notice of the coming regulation that will impact the quality of the fuel burned on ships, and has the potential to kick back into the diesel fuel market. Also: an underride decision, a revealing quote out of China.

U.S. Xpress placed an automated robocall to a driver, seeking to recruit him to join their company. The result? A lawsuit in federal court.

Drayage drivers will have more recourse when unable to collect wages.

Walmart is facing a $50,000 fine for allowing trucks to park at one of its Illinois stores. The penalty came from the city of Springfield, which claims the store is not following the parking plan approved by the city when it was built.

The idea behind the new training program is to work with the drivers involved in an incident right away, wherever they are, and not eat up too much of their time.

In today’s pickup: is there too much focus on OR? Also, Old Dominion had a solid July, and there’s a proposal for a new interstate highway.

The judgement pertained to a company policy that resulted in drivers who must temporarily move into non-driving roles for medical reasons being paid less than drivers making the same move for non-medical reasons.

The trucking industry awaits rulings from the courts, and through legislation, regarding the status of drivers. How often will rest breaks take place, and will they be paid? How will drivers be defined as independent contractors? What will be the implications either way?

As the California Air Resources Board (CARB) prepares to finalize the phase 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) standards and amendments to the tractor-trailer GHG regulation, Fresno-based carrier John R. Lawson Rock & Oil has released a statement calling the proposed regulations illegal.

An attorney speaks on the case of a driver fired after objecting to driving a truck he considered unsafe. His award didn’t even reach $5,000.

A driver was fired after objecting to driving a truck he considered unsafe. His award didn’t even reach $5,000.

The driver pulling frac sand had drugs in his system and had numerous moving violations. That ultimately is what appears to have led to such an enormous penalty.

A deaf trucker got his CDL, got a pass from FMCSA, had a job, but Werner said the law wouldn’t allow it to hire him. Now the case is in court.

The court’s opinion in Dynamex v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County has a lot of trucking companies in panic mode, scrambling to figure out how the ruling will affect their business operations. The ruling could also have a profound impact on many tech companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and others that provide on-demand services.

The Court declined to provide guidance on whether the ABC test as a means of determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors under some California wage and hour laws applies to pending cases or only those filed after the opinion was issued. What does it mean?

Two former Roadrunner Transportation Systems executives were charged with multiple crimes related to accounting and securities fraud in a federal indictment unsealed Friday.

Alleging that Prime Inc. put female truck drivers in harm’s way, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit this week against the carrier, alleging Prime did not take adequate steps to prevent sexual harassment of a female truck driver.

According to Bo Mitchell, there are more than 1,300 deaths per year as a result of “intimate partner violence” and many of them occur in a workplace environment. Two people are killed each day in America in the workplace as a result of a firearm or knife attack.

Delivery vehicles are one thing, but how will the high court’s ruling impact logistics companies across the industry?

Commentary: California has turned its back on an industry that employs nearly 1 million people

The decision would seem to raise as many questions as it answers.

Nikola Motor has sued Tesla for patent infringement on its Nikola One, at left. The Tesla model is at right. Nikola claims Tesla violated patents on door placement, wraparound windshield and the fuselage.

A limitation on soliciting customers is upheld. Restricting the movement of employees is not. 

“When there’s no sheriff in town, people get killed,” said Consumer Watchdog, John Simpson. But would the collision have happened even with a person behind the wheel?

Shippers are increasingly being held responsible for actions of carriers hauling their freight, says a leading transportation attorney.

The current exemption ends April 19.

Drivers say they’re employees, though their classification is as a contractor