Best Read Trucking Headlines
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#1 Illinois Appellate Court Rules Freight Broker Not Liable for $18M Jury Award in Teen’s Brain Injury Case
Sep 28 2023 // A freight broker is not liable for an $18 million jury award to the mother of a teenage boy who suffered a brain injury when he was struck by a truck, an Illinois appellate court ruled Wednesday. A panel of the 1st...
#2 Trucking in Transition: Sector Faces Decline in Demand, Rising Costs and Changing Insurance Markets
Nov 6 2023 // The transportation market is experiencing lower freight rates and excess capacity as fewer loads are shipped with demand for goods down from its pandemic-era peak. The trucking sector in particular is encountering...
#3 Mayday Call From Burning Cargo Ship Prompted Doomed Rescue Effort
Jan 17 2024 // The Grande Costa D’Avorio cargo ship was being loaded with 1,200 West Africa-bound cars at Port Newark last July when a deadly fire began. Dense black smoke limited visibility to about 3 feet, and the floor was so...
#4 Thanksgiving Cargo Theft Threat ‘Extremely High’: CargoNet
Nov 22 2023 // The threat of cargo theft activity this Thanksgiving is “extremely high” and “unlike any recent year,” according to CargoNet. CargoNet, a Verisk product, has tracked a sharp increase in...
#5 Freight Railroads Ask Courts to Throw Out Rule Requiring Two-Person Crews on Trains
Apr 17 2024 // Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances, saying the mandate is arbitrary, capricious and an illegal abuse of discretion. The...
#6 Because ‘Location’ Is Ambiguous in Marine Cargo Policy, Travelers Must Pay Fire Loss
Jan 8 2024 // A New York-based apparel company is entitled to its claim for the full $600,000 limit on its marine cargo insurance policy because the policy was ambiguous as to whether a warehouse fire that destroyed its goods was at an...
#7 Freight Railroads Must Keep 2-Person Crews Under New Federal Rule
Apr 4 2024 // Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice. The...
#8 Baltimore Port Closure Sends Companies Scrambling to Reroute Cargo
Apr 1 2024 // The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on America’s East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest...
#9 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...
#10 Witness Testifies on Seeking Sen. Menendez’s Help on Insurance, Trucking Probes
Jun 10 2024 // A New Jersey businessman took his star turn on the witness stand in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez on Friday, telling a jury he believed he had a $200,000-to-$250,000 deal in 2018 for the Democrat to pressure...
#11 Cargo Owners in Baltimore Disaster Face ‘General Average’ Loss Sharing, MSC Says
Apr 15 2024 // The owner of the ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge has started a formal process in which companies that own goods on the stricken Dali will have to share some of the financial losses, according...
#12 Storms Delay Search for Crew Missing After Turkish Cargo Ship Sinks in Black Sea
Nov 21 2023 // Severe storms have delayed a search-and-rescue operation for 12 crew members of a cargo ship that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Monday. The Turkish-flagged Kafkametler sank...
#13 Worker Tells of Fleeing Burning Jeep on Cargo Ship Where 2 Firefighters Died
Jan 12 2024 // Gaven Puchinsky had been pushing vehicles onto a huge cargo ship in one of the nation’s busiest seaports when he heard a loud “clunking” noise that he believed came from the yellow Jeep Wrangler he was...
#14 Mega Trucking and Prime Insurance Company Partner to Fight and Win Frivolous Litigation
Mar 11 2024 // SALT LAKE CITY, UT., March 11, 2024 — Rick J. Lindsey, President and CEO of Prime Insurance Company, a specialty insurance carrier, announced today that the company partnered with Mega Trucking to fight and win frivolous...
#15 New Hampshire Weighs Suspension of Trucker Found Not Guilty in Deadly Crash
Jun 25 2024 // Days before the five-year anniversary of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists, relatives and friends urged New Hampshire officials not to allow the trucker involved back on the state’s roadways. A jury in 2022...
#16 Russian Oil Finds New Site for Controversial Cargo Switching
Jun 4 2024 // Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea, a sign of how hard it will be to clamp down on an activity that has alarmed...
#17 Newark Wants Cargo Ship Firefighters’ Deaths Handled Under Workers’ Compensation
May 2 2024 // The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship, The city maintains that...
#18 Update: Baltimore Ship Accident Has East Coast Ports Scrambling to Absorb Cargo
Apr 1 2024 // US East Coast ports are modifying their operations to absorb cargo diverted from Baltimore harbor, where salvage specialists are starting to clear debris from the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge and authorities are...
#19 West Texas Truckers Protest Low Wages, Working Conditions
Jul 3 2024 // MONAHANS — Low wages and working conditions that truck drivers describe as degrading have sparked an organized labor movement in the Permian Basin, a historic first for the nation’s busiest oil field. About a dozen...
#20 Georgia Awards $189M Bridge-Raising Contract to Allow Bigger Cargo Ships
Jan 5 2024 // SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Department of Transportation said Wednesday it has chosen a general contractor to oversee a $189 million project to raise Savannah`s towering suspension bridge so that larger cargo...
