Latest Trucking Headlines
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Low Mississippi River Water Levels Force Barge Companies to Cut Cargo
Sep 13 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just...
Unauthorized Passengers in Cargo Transportation: Risks and Considerations
Sep 9 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In 2019, a woman died after a semi-truck hauling avocados swerved and struck a parked vehicle, attempting to avoid a road rage incident. The deceased woman...
Trucking Firm of Fatigued Driver Who Caused Fatal Crash Kept Fake Hours Data: NTSB
Aug 30 2024 // A crash that killed three passengers on a party bus on a Virginia highway was caused by a fatigued truck driver working for a company that allowed its drivers to log excessive hours, a federal report concluded...
Lyft is a Motor Carrier and State Farm Can Be Sued Directly, Georgia Court Says
Aug 28 2024 // Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing...
How to Protect Your Fleet from Phishers Posing as the FMCSA
Aug 27 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a warning about a sophisticated phishing scam targeting motor carriers. Fraudulent emails,...
Why the Canadian Freight Rail Halt Will Roil North American Supply Chains
Aug 22 2024 // Canada’s two main freight rail companies locked out around 10,000 of their Canadian unionized workers early on Thursday, starting an unprecedented simultaneous work stoppage that will grind almost all railway freight...
PCF Transportation Offers a Look at the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse
Aug 16 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by PCF Insurance Services. PCF Transportation Practice Leader, Tim Good, leads a discussion with Erika Wilson, Producer from Good’s Insurance, a PCF company, about the...
Toxic Waste Bound for Thailand on Maersk, MSC Cargo Vessels to Return to Europe
Aug 16 2024 // Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally...
Trucking Firm Owner Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
Aug 16 2024 // An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield,...
Thailand Races to Stop Toxic Waste Cargo on MSC, Maersk Ships
Aug 13 2024 // Thai authorities are racing to stop about 100 shipping containers allegedly filled with hazardous industrial waste from Albania reaching the nation’s ports. Basel Action Network, a US-based nonprofit that tracks...
PCF Transportation Unwraps MVR Monitoring for Truck Drivers and Motor Carriers
Aug 12 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by PCF Insurance Services. PCF Transportation Practice Leader, Todd Lykke discusses what MVR monitoring is and how it can make a big difference in the trucking industry. PCF...
Missouri Trucking Company Sued for Refusing to Hire a Deaf Job Applicant
Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...
South Africa Races to Contain Oil Spill From Wrecked Cargo Ship
Jul 30 2024 // South Africa dispatched crews to contain an oil spill from a cargo vessel that ran aground earlier this month because of extreme weather conditions. Strong waves eroded the hull of the 125-meter (410-foot) MV Ultra Galaxy,...
Freight Train Runs Off Tracks, Smashes Into Residential Garage in Niagara Falls
Jul 25 2024 // NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A freight locomotive ran off the end of its track and smashed into the side of a garage Monday at a home in the city of Niagara Falls. No one was injured, but the impact flattened the brick...
Wife of Ex-Texas Trucking Magnate Sentenced in $9M Work Comp Fraud Scheme
Jul 24 2024 // The wife of a former San Antonio trucking magnate was sentenced this month in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme. Frances Hall, former co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking, was sentenced for her role in a scheme to avoid $9...
Cargo Ship Sustains Damage After Houthi Attack in Gulf of Aden
Jul 19 2024 // A Singaporean-flagged cargo vessel was hit by Yemen’s Houthi missiles in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, forcing it to return to its last port of call to assess the damage. Iran-aligned Houthis launched ballistic...
New Hampshire Suspends License of Trucker Acquitted in Motorcycle Crash for 2 Years
Jul 15 2024 // A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists won’t be eligible to get his license back for another two years, New Hampshire safety officials said. A jury in 2022 found...
People Moves: Gallagher Hires Eaton From Howden for US Cargo Role; Hartford Names Fish Head of Group Benefits, Bassett Global CUO and Head of Reinsurance
Jul 10 2024 // Gallagher Names Eaton Exec Director to Support US Cargo Gallagher appointed of Jonathan Eaton to executive director, responsible for overseeing wholesale to other non-specialist brokers and working with Gallagher offices...
California Warehouse, Logistics Companies Fined Nearly $840K After Worker Pay Probe
Jul 5 2024 // Three recent U.S. Department of Labor investigations in San Diego, California recovered nearly $840,000 for 32 employees, some of whom one employer reportedly paid less than $3 per hour. The department’s Wage and...
Trucking Firm Owner’s Scheme to Lower Insurance Costs Hits Dead End
Jul 5 2024 // The owner of a New York trucking business who fabricated a supposedly independent Texas affiliate to circumvent his existing firm’s negative safety rating and avoid higher insurance costs has been found guilty of...
