U.S. Supreme Court last month let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Cassens Transport Co. and its workers comp administrator Crawford & Co. violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by contesting the ... (more...)
Q: We are a small unrated carrier with a high driver out-of-service SEA score as a result of involvement in several accidents that were not our fault. Now a broker that we depended ... (more...)
UPS’s termination of a part-time employee for undocumented absence did not violate the employee’s rights under the Family Medical Leave Act because the employee did not suffer a serious health condition within the meaning of ... (more...)
FedEx announced that the Internal Revenue Service’s audit team provided the company with revised notices of proposed adjustments with respect to its employment tax audits for the 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 calendar years regarding ... (more...)
Q: What is preemption? We use owner-operators, and I recently learned that this doctrine has been used to thwart state enforcement actions in California to reclassify owner-operators as employees.
A: I received the same notice from ... (more...)
Hugo Daniel Solana was sentenced Sept. 21 in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., to one year probation after pleading guilty to impersonating a federal motor carrier inspector. Solana, owner of motor carrier consulting firm ... (more...)
Van Buren, Ark.-based USA Truck Inc. faces about $4.5 million in damages, interest and attorneys fees after an unsuccessful appeal of a jury verdict finding the carrier in violation of its obligations to pay commissions ... (more...)
Q:I am confused about laws concerning the country of origin. I have seen the issue come up twice in customer contracts in the last six months. We were asked to sign ... (more...)
Illinois enacted legislation prohibiting contract provisions that require motor carriers to indemnify shippers against loss or damage resulting from the shipper’s negligence. More than a dozen states have adopted similar anti-indemnification laws.... (more...)
A federal appeals court upheld a 10-year sentence and $1.7 million restitution order for Roger Waldner, a Dubuque, Iowa, businessman who had pled guilty to two counts of bankruptcy fraud in connection with ... (more...)
