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News · Oct 16, 2019

Now bankrupt Canadian trucking company owed millions to U.S. lender (with video)

Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves Canadian trucking company FTI owed more than C$18 million to creditors when it filed for bankruptcy in September, according to court filings that offer a glimpse into one of the few known Canadian trucking failures in 2019. FTI Holdings, which closed in August alongside its U.S. sibling HVH, owed C$16 million of the C$18.2 million (a Canadian dollar equals US$0.76) to U.S. Bank in bankruptcy documents filed in Ontario on October 9. FTI’s

News · Oct 16, 2019

Weekly Fuel Report 10-16-19

Weekly Fuel Report by:Emily Ricks @ American Shipper/ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com / American Sipper / Emily Ricks / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski

News · Oct 15, 2019

Cass says data continues to point toward economic contraction including freight shipments

Story by: Todd Maiden @ FreightWaves I Freight shipments and expenditures declined on a year-over-year basis again in September according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report. According to the report, shipments declined 3.4% in September, the tenth straight month of year-over-year declines. On a month-over-month comparison, the index improved 0.8% to its best reading since May. Donald Broughton, founder and managing partner of Broughton Capital and author of the report, said, “the shipments i

News · Oct 15, 2019

Tokyo freight infrastructure stands up to the wrath of Super Typhoon Hagibis

Story by: Jim Wilson, Australia Correspondent @ FreightWaves Although Super Typhoon Hagibis has caused catastrophic floods, mudslides and at least 68 tragic deaths in Japan, FreightWaves understands from local sources that Tokyo’s critical freight infrastructure – seaports and airports – are undamaged. Japan’s wider logistics network is suffering from a miscellany of damage such as flooding. FreightWaves today spoke to several Tokyo-based correspondents for Protection and Indemnity Clubs (P&I Cl

News · Oct 14, 2019

Jury slaps Werner Enterprises with $40.5 million ‘nuclear verdict’ in fatal crash

Story by: Clarissa Hawes @FreightWaves A New Mexico jury awarded the family of a woman killed in a February 2017 crash involving a student driver for Werner Enterprises Inc. around $40.5 million in damages on Oct. 11 following a two-week trial. “Nuclear verdicts” are described as jury awards in which penalties exceed $10 million. According to court documents, Felipe “Jose” Johnson, of Apopka, Florida, had only been driving for Werner for eight days when the tractor-trailer he was driving crossed

News · Oct 12, 2019

Huge beer cargo spilled, trucker high on meth caused a fiery crash and more...

Story by: Jim Wilson, Australia Correspondent @ FreightWaves It has been a dramatic week in Australian trucking. A truck driver has been jailed for being high – both metaphorically AND literally – during in a big truck crash. There was the tragic case of a strip club driver dying in a head-on crash with a truck. And then there was the curious incident of the cattle hoofing it down a main motorway in Melbourne. On the positive front, a massive inspection campaign has found the vast majority of Au

News · Oct 12, 2019

Mack Truck workers to go on strike first time in 35 years

Story by: Alan Adler @ FreightWaves The United Auto Workers plans to strike Mack Trucks operations in three states on Sunday, the first walkout at the heavy-duty truck maker in 35 years. UAW Local 677 has 3,500 members at plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida. About 2,400 of the workers are in Lower Macungie Township in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Workers stayed on the job under terms of a three-year agreement that expired on October 1. The extension was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on

News · Oct 11, 2019

Another carrier with 540 trucks and drivers is shutting down

Story by: Craig Fuller, CEO at FreightWaves Country Wide RV Transport (CWRV), the nation’s second-largest RV and motor-home transportation provider, is shutting down for good, according to information received late Friday by FreightWaves. The 540 drivers that currently work for the recreational vehicle transport company will be out of work effective November 1st. The news was first reported on the blog Freight Broker Live., which included a screenshot of an email sent to the company’s employees.

News · Oct 11, 2019

Federal appeals court overturns $800,000 award in Werner driver trainee FLSA lawsuit

Story by: Clarissa Hawes @ FreightWaves A federal appeals court overturned a nearly $800,000 damage award won by student drivers in a class-action lawsuit against Werner Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: WERN) after a jury found the carrier and its subsidiary violated federal labor and state wage laws for failing to pay for rest breaks. In its decision on October 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found that the lower court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, imprope

News · Oct 11, 2019

Amazon starts building its own fleet of semi-trucks

Story by: Mark Solomon @ FreightWaves I Amazon.com. Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is preparing to take a step that many thought would be inevitable – acquiring its own power units. Amazon, which has spent the past six years forming a massive shipping and logistics network, already owns or leases thousands of truck trailers. But it relies on contractors to bring their own power units to the shipping relationship. That is changing. The company is poised to “double down” on its in-house truckload capabilities

News · Oct 11, 2019

FMCSA opened registration for drug & alcohol clearinghouse

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) registration is now open for the Congressionally-mandated Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. To learn more or to register visit: clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register https://www.facebook.com/FMCSA/photos/a.272709896167868/2162220500550122/?type=3&theater Source and credits: fmcsa.dot.gov / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski

News · Oct 11, 2019

Amazon delivery partner cuts more than 400 jobs in Texas

More than 1,200 trucking and freight jobs have been eliminated across Texas since September 16 Story by: Noi Mahoney @ FreightWaves Letter Ride, a delivery service provider for Amazon, is cutting 423 positions at facilities across Texas. The company is eliminating jobs at its facilities in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, according to recent documents provided by the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs are set to begin on December 4 in Dallas and are expected to be completed at all ot