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News · Oct 28, 2019

Transportation company owner pleads guilty to conspiracy to fix prices for freight forwarding services

According to the press release from the official website of the U.S. Department of Justice on October 24, 2019: Third freight Transportation Executive Pleads guilty to Antitrust Charge. Conspiracy Targeted Shipments of Household Goods from the United States to Honduras. Francis Alvarez, the owner of a large freight forwarding company, pleaded guilty to an antitrust charge for her role in a multi-year, nationwide conspiracy to fix prices for international freight forwarding services, the Departme

News · Oct 25, 2019

Estimated Food Waste will hit 1.5 billion tons by 2030

Story and infographics by Layla Rapp @FreightWaves The Boston Consulting Group(BCG) estimates that by 2030 annual food loss and waste will hit 2.1Billion tons worth $1.5 Trillion. Source and credits: freightwaves.com / Layla Rapp / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski

News · Oct 24, 2019

Driver qualification, detention among DOT 2020 priorities

Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @FreightWaves I Management at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will be pressured to address several affecting commercial drivers and their companies in 2020 based on a set of priorities unveiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). “DOT’s Fiscal Year 2020 Top Management Challenges,” released on October 23, calls on the agency to tackle truck driver qualification, driver detention, and high-risk motor carrier int

News · Oct 24, 2019

Weekly Fuel Report 10-23-19

Weekly Fuel Report 10-23-19 and the actual price of Diesel at the truck stop in the US, by Emily Ricks @FreightWaves/AmericanShipper Source and credits: freightwaves.com / / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski

News · Oct 22, 2019

DOT to audit FMCSA oversight of truck driver bans

Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com A fatal crash involving a commercial driver has led to a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) audit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) oversight of state driver licensing agencies. According to the DOT’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on October 22, the crash, which occurred earlier this year, led to an internal investigation by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) that found the a

News · Oct 22, 2019

Fatal truck crashes increased slightly in 2018

Story by: Matt Cole @ Overdriveonline.com I [Original image could not be recovered] The number of fatalities in crashes involving large trucks increased slightly in 2018 from 2017 with 46 more fatalities in 2018 than the previous year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA defines a large truck as vehicles with gross vehicle weight ratings above 10,000 pounds, so medium- and heavy-duty pickups, as well as commercial trucks, are include

News · Oct 22, 2019

Truckers to battle rain, wind, snow this Tuesday (forecast video)

Story and forecast by Nick Austin, Director of Weather Analytics and Senior Meteorologist @FreightWaves I There is plenty of disruptive weather happening today, October 22, in several regions of the U.S. Resulting in delays for shippers and truckers should be minor/moderate. Driver safety will be the main concern. Stormy mess in the East Truckers will run into wet and stormy conditions on the I-81 and I-95 corridors, from the southern Appalachians to New England. The cold front that helped spawn

News · Oct 22, 2019

New opportunities bring unusual players into the US trucking industry

Story by: Charley Dehoney @ FreightWaves I An interesting trend is happening in the US trucking market. On the heels of some of the best years in the industry’s history, investors and operators are coming from unlikely places and backgrounds, bringing a fresh perspective and a flood of investment dollars along with them. The record-breaking revenues of 2018 contributed to the demise of several asset-based trucking companies that expanded their fleets only to falter due to the rate declines of 20

News · Oct 20, 2019

Are Australian road trains the solution to the US truck drivers shortage?

Story by: Barry Hochfelder @ supplychaindive.com North Dakota approved legislation to pilot the "Road Trains" freight method as a way to deal with truck drivers shortage. In solving for crucial supply chain issues, Australia found a workaround that could have implications for driver shortages and transportation hurdles in the U.S. Australia's supply chain must navigate its landmass of 2.96 million square miles, people and businesses dispersed through the Outback and infrastructure better suited

News · Oct 19, 2019

Trucking Freight Futures Market Activity 10-14-2019

Trucking Freight Futures Market Activity 10-14-2019 - by: Layla Rapp @ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com / Layla Rapp / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski

News · Oct 18, 2019

Another trucking company files for bankruptcy as lawsuits pile up

Story by: Clarissa Hawes @FreightWaves The owner of a Kentucky-based trucking company filed for bankruptcy protection following a slew of lawsuits filed after one of his drivers was convicted of causing a fatal crash that killed six people in June 2015. Billy Ray Sizemore, the owner of Cool Runnings Express Inc. of London, Kentucky, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Oct. 1, according to documents filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. In his filing, Size

News · Oct 17, 2019

Volvo Trucks will lay off 3,000 workers because of UAW strike at Mack Trucks

Story by: Alan Adler @ FreightWaves I The impact of a United Auto Workers’ strike at Mack Trucks will nearly double next week when Volvo Trucks North America lays off about 3,000 employees because of a lack of engines and transmissions that come from a Maryland plant the companies share. A Volvo Group spokesman on Thursday confirmed the ripple effect of the 4-day-old strike on its New River Plant in Dublin, Virginia. “We communicated to our employees this morning that NRV will stop production Mo