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News · Jul 11, 2020

Truckers assist Utah Highway Patrol to make an arrest in this dramatic video

Story by: Noi Mahoney at FreightWaves.com Several truckers recently lent a helping hand to a Utah Highway Patrol officer making an arrest along a busy interstate highway. https://www.facebook.com/devon.rogers.984/videos/3638242072870398/ Utah Highway Patrol Cpl. Colton Freckleton said the incident occurred Thursday when officer Justin Law responded to a call about a pedestrian standing along the shoulder of Interstate 15 near Kaysville (around 25 miles north of Salt Lake City). “As the trooper m

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News · Jul 10, 2020

Teens arrested by CBP in an attempt to smuggle 23 immigrants in semi-truck

Story by: CBP.GOV / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski / itrucker.com TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two U.S. citizens and 23 illegal aliens border crossers near Douglas, Arizona, Wednesday Around 10 p.m., Tucson Sector agents conducted an immigration-related traffic stop on a semitractor-trailer near mile marker 371 on state Route 80. Agents arrested 22 Mexican nationals and one Guatemalan national in the process, all illegally present in the United States and ranging in age from 16

News · Jul 4, 2020

Feds arrest murder suspect enrolled in C.R. England’s trucking school

Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves.com Federal agents from the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (VFAST) recently arrested a Georgia man, wanted for murder in another state, who recently enrolled in C.R. England’s West Valley City, Utah, truck driving school. VFAST agents arrested Khalid Mahamed Hirmoge, 29, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, on July 1, on a warrant charging him with being a fugitive. Hirmoge, who also goes by the alias, Yonnas Kahsay, is in custody without b

News · Jul 2, 2020

Trucking company filed for bankruptcy citing soaring insurance rates, fatal crash

Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves.com Deluxe Express Inc. of Plainfield, Illinois, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, citing soaring insurance rates after one of its drivers was involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 80 near Laramie, Wyoming, in March 2019. Deluxe Express and another motor carrier have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed in the deadly pileup involving three trucking companies. In its filing with the U.S. Bankrup

News · Jun 26, 2020

FMCSA weighing freight broker bond enforcement action

Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com Federal regulators (FMCSA) is considering whether to begin a formal rulemaking process to enforce the immediate shutdown of freight brokers that fail to pay motor carrier claims. The comment period for an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), known as “Broker Trust Funds and Surety Bonds,” ended in November 2018 and generated 70 comments. The proposal — as with a petition recently filed by owner-operators on broker tr

News · Jun 24, 2020

Industrial Augmented Reality Company Librestream Raises $24 Million to Expand

Story by: Vishnu Rajamanickam @ FreightWaves Canadian augmented reality worker enterprise company Librestream announced that it has raised $24 million in Series D investment, taking its total financing to over $55 million. Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) led the investment round, which saw participation from new investors Export Development Canada (EDC) and Pender Technology Inflection Fund, as well as existing investors including Emerald Technology Ventures and BDC Capital. The logistics i

News · Jun 23, 2020

CBP seizes over 400 pounds of marijuana hidden in the trash hauling truck

By: Mario Pawlowski / iTrucker DETROIT – "CBP Officers working cargo operations at the Fort Street Cargo Facility discovered 418 pounds of marijuana in a trash hauler driven by a Canadian citizen. The truck was x-rayed and searched. During the inspection, 15 large trash bags of drugs were discovered hidden in the rear of the hauler. At around 4 am on Friday, June 19, 2020, a Canadian citizen driving a municipal waste hauler was referred for inspection after crossing the Ambassador Bridge. During

News · Jun 19, 2020

Court rules against family in ‘overworked’ truck driver death

Story by: Clarissa Hawes at Freightwaves.com Despite testimony that an oilfield carrier pushed truck drivers to work more than 100 hours per week and ignore federal hours-of-service regulations, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the family of an “overworked” truck driver killed in a rollover crash can’t file a wrongful death lawsuit against the carrier because they couldn’t prove the company “intended” for him to die in a crash. Instead, the court ruled that the family of Fabian Escobedo, w

News · Jun 18, 2020

Ex-trucking company owner faces charges in an elaborate scam to defraud Amazon

Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves.com The former owner of a Rhode Island trucking company is facing charges of wire and mail fraud after prosecutors allege he orchestrated an elaborate scheme to defraud Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) out of more than $640,000. Michael Chaves, 40, of East Providence, Rhode Island, and former owner of auto transport company CAT Transportation Inc., was already awaiting sentencing in another federal case when he was arrested on Wednesday, June 17. He is currently bein

News · Jun 18, 2020

FMCSA expects no delay in hours-of-service effective date

Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent at FreightWaves.com Top officials at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) are confident that the hours-of-service (HOS) final rule will go into force on Sept. 29 as planned. Speaking at webinar hosted on Wednesday by the National Tank Truck Carriers (NTTC), Joe DeLorenzo, director of the FMCSA’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement, said his agency is “not anticipating any delay in implementation,” when asked if the rule could

News · Jun 18, 2020

CBP discovered 24 undocumented aliens in a tractor trailer

By: Mario Pawlowski / iTrucker Release Date: June 16, 2020 LAREDO, Texas – "U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Interstate 35 (I-35) Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo prevented a human smuggling attempt. The incident occurred late in the evening of June 15, when a white tractor hauling a white trailer approached the I-35 checkpoint and a Service canine alerted to the trailer. A search of the trailer led agents to discover 24 individuals hidden inside, all illegally present in the United Stat

News · Jun 17, 2020

Lawmakers vote to raise mandatory insurance for carriers to $2 million

By: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent at Freightwaves.com Lawmakers marking up the U.S. House of Representatives’ version of the surface transportation reauthorization bill have approved an amendment to more than double the required amount of insurance coverage for truck owners from $750,000 to $2 million. The amendment, introduced this week by U.S. Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Illinois, passed the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee late Wednesday by a vote of 37-27. Proponents of the