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Trucking company that hauls for USPS, asked to give back PPP funds
Story by: John Kingston at FreightWaves.com A publicly-traded Phoenix-based trucking company, EVO Transportation that received $10 million under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been asked to give it back. The company, EVO Transportation and Energy Services, mostly hauls for the U.S. Postal Service. Much of its fleet appears to be powered by compressed […]
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Trucking industry unites to provide hand sanitizer, masks for drivers
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves.com Ingrid Brown, a 40-year trucking veteran, says she was just “venting on social media” in mid-April about the struggles truck drivers were experiencing to find personal protective equipment, including face masks and hand sanitizer, at truck stops and other places out on the road, when she quickly discovered […]
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Freight brokers push back against Trump’s price-gouging claims
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent at FreightWaves.com Representatives of the truck brokerage industry swiftly refuted President Donald Trump’s allegations of price gouging against small-business truck drivers after the President took sides with the drivers on the issue. Trump, who tweeted his support for the drivers during last week’s “May Day” demonstration rally held by […]
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Trump says on the Live TV that he knows the truckers are “price gouged”
President Trump was interviewed by Fox News on May 8th, and responds to reporters’ questions regarding truckers being price gouged by saying, “they are price -gouged.” Hundreds of truckers came to Washington DC last Friday, May 1st, to protest low freight transportation rates, brokers transparency, safety, and more. As iTrucker iTrucker reported last Friday, President […]
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OOIDA asks Congress to mandate brokers supply deal data to carriers
Story by: John Kingston at FreightWaves.com The continuing anger on the part of independent owner-operators targeting the broker community for low trucking rates has now led to the owner-operators’ trade group asking Congress to amend a current federal law governing broker-carrier relations. In a letter sent Wednesday to all 535 members of Congress, Todd […]
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Good news for truckers: Ta-Petro begins reopening dine-in restaurants
Story by: Alan Adler at FreightWaves.com TravelCenters of America (TA-PETRO), (NASDAQ: TA) is slowly reopening dine-in restaurants at its travel plazas where allowed, but some changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic may never be reversed. “We have already undertaken rolling some locations on and we’re doing it in a prudent and self-disciplined way,” TA […]
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Amazon’s brokerage operation goes national
Story by: Brian Straight at FreightWaves.com As demand for goods from its own warehouses as well as third-party suppliers skyrocket, Amazon is expanding its brokerage division, first launched just a year ago. The e-commerce giant is now offering brokerage services in 48 states, a spokesperson confirmed to FreightWaves. Amazon’s shipper-focused website, freight.amazon.com, now says service areas include […]
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Family of Wyoming man killed in truck crash sues driver and carrier
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves.com The family of a man killed two years ago in a tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 80 in Albany County, Wyoming, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and one of its former drivers. Vidal Madera, 57, of Laramie, Wyoming, died when Tonya Hightower, […]
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Trump responded to the truckers waiting outside the White House
President Donald Trump responded to truck drivers who gathered outside the White House since Friday by tweeting this message: “I’m with the TRUCKERS all the way. Thanks for the meeting at the White House with my representatives from the Administration. It is all going to work out well!”. He also sent one of his associates […]
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