A significant potentially historic winter storm to impact the Northern Rockies
Story by: Mario Pawlowski @ iTrucker Widespread moderate to heavy snow from southeast Montana into portions of the central and northern Plains. Record low temperatures possible across the western and central U.S. through Friday. A vigorous upper-level trough and strong associated cold front will move from the Rockies into the central U.S. today. Widespread moderate […]
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Arkansas trucking company owner charged in human trafficking case
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @FreightWaves The owner of an Arkansas-based trucking company has been charged with rape, patronizing a victim of human trafficking and sexual indecency with a child, according to police records. Police documents allege that Hugh O. Daniels, 73, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, “paid to rape” two teenage girls, ages 14 and […]
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Immigration scheme in the Canadian trucking industry prompts warning from feds
Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves The Canadian government said any employer found to break the rules of a temporary worker program would face “serious consequences” after an investigation by The Globe and Mail exposed a scheme that saw trucking companies with poor safety records luring inexperienced foreign workers into driver careers. Canada’s second-largest newspaper found […]
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Marijuana legalization presents the next costly legal threat to the trucking industry and the truckers
A weed problem Story by: Alan Adler @ FreightWaves The legalization of marijuana in 11 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada could be the next cudgel used against truckers, according to ATA President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Spear. “You can just see the trial lawyers – sitting on the edge of their high, wing-back leather […]
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Weekly Fuel Report 10-08-19
Weekly Fuel Report by Emily Ricks @ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com / Emily Ricks / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski
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ATA prepares to fight outsized legal awards against truckers involved in accidents with cars
Story by: Alan Adler @FreightWaves The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is gearing up to fight against multimillion-dollar legal awards against truckers and their employers who are not at fault but blamed in many car-truck crashes. “We’re fed up,” ATA President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Spear told members October 7 at the association’s Management Conference […]
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Family files $10 million lawsuit in fatal crash despite truck driver being cleared of any wrongdoing
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves The parents of two children killed in a fatal crash during a snowstorm in March 2018 on Interstate 29 in eastern North Dakota have filed a $10 million lawsuit, alleging negligence against the trucking company and its driver, despite a five-month investigation that cleared the truck driver of any […]
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Drunken e-scooter riders cause chaos at Oktoberfest beer festival, hundreds of DUIs reported
Story by: Vishnu Rajamanickam, Staff Writer @ FreightWaves The German police had a field day marshalling people around at the world’s largest beer festival Oktoberfest, mediating in nearly 2,000 altercations at the 16-day event. Held annually in the months of September and October in Munich, Germany, Oktoberfest witnesses 7 million people every year, who consume […]
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Truck driver sues BNSF over collision with alleged “uncontrolled” railcars (with video)
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @FreightWaves I A Kansas truck driver has filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company (NYSE: BRK), alleging negligence, after his tractor-trailer collided with railcars after leaving a grain elevator near Greenfield, Missouri. Brandan Bunnel, a truck driver for Bunnel Trucking LLC of Colony, Kansas, filed suit on October 3 in U.S. District […]
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