The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration now is fining carriers that have DOT numbers but no authority as much as $4,000 to $7,000 per day for hauling regulated shipments.
Q: What is the source of “most favored nations” clauses in contracts? We are negotiating a contract with a shipper who insists these clauses are typical and must be agreed to if we want their ... (more...)
In a brief filed in November in its ongoing litigation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, truck and engine maker Navistar argued that EPA violated federal law not only by allowing its competitors to use ... (more...)
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 upon heavily ... (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...)
