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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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