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Calif. trucking company owners face fraud charges for drivers working under the table

A California trucking company’s owners were held on $950,000 bail each for an alleged scheme to avoid higher insurance premiums and taxes by paying drivers cash and providing inaccurate employee information to state officials. 

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Report: Shippers demanding rate decreases from carriers

Under a brief investment report titled “Shippers continue to bludgeon rates,†by trucking financial research group Stifel Transportation comes this gem: A large dry van carrier recently told the firm that 90 percent of its customers have asked the carrier for a rate reduction.  

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Supreme Court decision to allow trucker to intervene in ELD lawsuit undecided, FMCSA skips response filing

As noted last week in CCJ reporting on the ongoing lawsuit brought against the DOT’s electronic logging device mandate, there’s a renegade effort of sorts under way by trucker William Trescott to intervene in the case, a measure he’s asked the Supreme Court to take up. 

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Knight Transportation shooting victim, shooter identified

KPRC2 is Houston has identified 65-year-old Marion Guy Williams as the former Knight Transportation employee that entered the company’s Katy, Texas, terminal with a shotgun and shot and killed Mike Dawid, Williams’ former supervisor according to the report. Two other Knight employees were injured by flying debris, and a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in […]

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LEDs lighting the way to improved road safety

In-cab LED lighting is becoming standard across many OE lineups, but is still largely an option as you work your way to the front of the vehicle in most cases. 

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OOIDA: Court decision on e-log mandate could come by end of 2016

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association says it expects the courts to rule by year’s end on whether or not to uphold a DOT rule to require truckers to use electronic logging devices to track hours of service. 

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Carrier wins Colorado case brought by drivers wanting overtime pay, breaks

Colorado intrastate truckers who transport out-of-state shipments destined instate are exempted from federal and state wage law, according to a federal appellate court. On April 21, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district’s court award of summary judgement to the Iowa-based Decker Truck Lines  

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Taking the good with the bad: Truck-related fatalities down, but injury crashes on the rise

Earlier this month, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Analysis Division released its annual “Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts†study examining truck- and bus-related crash statistics for 2014.  

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Calif. trucking company owners face fraud charges for drivers working under the table

A California trucking company’s owners were held on $950,000 bail each for an alleged scheme to avoid higher insurance premiums and taxes by paying drivers cash and providing inaccurate employee information to state officials.     

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