Trucking Freight Futures 10-7-2019
Trucking Freight Futures by Layla Rapp @ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com /Layla Rapp / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski
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Historic snowstorm to keep slamming Plains and Rockies into weekend
Story by: Nick Austin, Director of Weather Analytics and Senior Meteorologist @ FreightWaves I For the past two days, a major early season storm has been dumping huge amounts of snow in the northern Rockies and northern Great Plains in the U.S., and causing road closures and power outages in southern Canada. Parts of Montana like West Yellowstone, Lewistown, Homestake Pass, Helena and Pony got blanketed with 12 to 18 inches of snow. Yesterday, October 10, daily snowfall records were set at the B
FMCSA chief Ray Martinez leaves the agency
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @FreightWaves Ray Martinez is leaving the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and will be replaced by current FMCSA Chief Counsel Jim Mullen, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today (Oct. 10). No reason was initially given for his departure. FMCSA was not immediately available to comment. Martinez, a New Jersey native whose tenure as head of the agency lasted roughly 20 months, will “take the opportunity to mo
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 to heavy snow is expected today from southeast Montana into portions of the central and northern Plains. By tonight into Friday morn
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 16, who were victims of sex trafficking, at the Bel-Air Motel and Apartments, located in North Little Rock, in mid-September, according to the news out
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 that some trucking companies and immigration consultants were exploiting job-seekers through Canad
Marijuana legalization presents the next costly legal threat to the trucking industry and the truckers
A weed problemStory by: Alan Adler @ FreightWavesThe 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 chairs – drooling over the thought of more legal ambiguity,” Spear said in his speech. “We can’t just sit back and hand them yet another opportunity to litigate our indust
Weekly Fuel Report 10-08-19
Weekly Fuel Report by Emily Ricks @ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com / Emily Ricks / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski
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 & Exhibition in San Diego. “I’m sick of playing defense while trial lawyers buy jets and yachts at the expense of trucking jobs.
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 wrongdoing. Bryan Dean and Trista Curry recently filed their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Fargo, North Dakota, against Pan-O-Gold Baking Company, headquartere
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 over 7.5 million liters (~2 million gallons) of beer. Though mild road skirmishes have always occurred in the area surrounding Oktoberf
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 Court for the Western District of Missouri, claiming he continues to suffer from “serious and life-altering injuries” after being st