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A private equity firm is demanding the Port of Los Angeles release over 2,000 documents that allegedly show the local longshore union's sway over port decision-making and its role in a failed container storage yard project that is at the center of a lawsuit. Attorneys for Saybrook Capital filed...

A former Pennsylvania trucking company employee was sentenced to 18 months to four years in state prison for embezzling more than $238,000 from the firm. Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Dominick Motto also ordered David B. Martin, 74, to pay nearly $136,000 in restitution to Martin Trucking Inc...

Three members of Congress have proposed $30 million for an ad campaigns over six years to raise awareness about careers in transportation — including the trucking industry — while promoting diversity in the workforce. The Promoting Service in Transportation Act, introduced Nov. 15 by U.S. Reps....

A truck parking fees scam has landed former logistics supervisor Chow Chi-yeung, 42, of Hong Kong, with 160 hours of community service. The sentence was imposed on Chow by the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court. Chow, formerly employed by Extrans International (HK) was convicted on a charge of fraud...

The widow of a truck driver crushed by steel beams at a warehouse in Florida is moving forward with a wrongful death lawsuit. Sylvester Roulhac, 71, of Coral Springs, Florida, was killed on Sept. 16 while picking up a load of steel beams at the Kloeckner Metals facility in Pompano Beach. A pile...

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) says a jury verdict that says the union owes $93.6 million to the former operator of a container terminal in the Port of Portland is flawed. The verdict against the union and in favor of ICTSI, Oregon Inc. was "shocking," said ILWU...

A federal appeals court on Nov. 7 upheld a lower court's ruling that shipping giant United Parcel Service Inc. is liable for illegally transporting hundreds of thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations to unlicensed recipients in New York state. In its ruling,...

A Texas motor carrier scored a legal victory against Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in a lawsuit highlighting the e-commerce giant's sometimes testy relationship with trucking industry.  Waco-based Central Freight Lines, which has 1,651 power units according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

A federal grand jury recently indicted a Russian trucking owner — who is already awaiting trial on charges that include a $150 million military kickback scam and a murder-for-hire plot — as well as eight other Utah-based trucking company executives in an alleged "pay-to-play" bribery scheme...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the whistleblower complaints against India-based IT company Infosys (NYSE: INFY), Reuters reported. Infosys is also facing a class-action lawsuit filed by Rosen Law Firm in a New York court on Wednesday, according to the Economic Times. The...

A former Dallas police officer pleaded guilty on October 16 to falsifying traffic tickets in order to collect overtime pay through a program funded by a federal grant aimed at curbing fatal and serious injury crashes on Dallas roadways. Matthew Alan Rushing, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of...

A judge recently declined to reduce the jury award of $26.5 million and refused to grant a new trial in a fatal road-rage crash in Oregon. The case involved two trucking companies and their drivers who were alleged to be engaged in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that killed a 30-year-old woman in...

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. ...

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...

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...