Avery ViseBusinessCEVA Logistics faces trial in racial discrimination lawsuitCEVA Logistics U.S. faces a trial in a racial discrimination lawsuit after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a federal district court’s grant of summary judgment to the company. The lower court said that even had the plaintiffs established that a hostile work environment existed, CEVA had taken prompt and effective […]September 24, 2010BusinessMan pleads guilty for impersonating medical review officerA federal judge sentenced Michael R. Bennett of Workplace Compliance Inc. of Texas and North Carolina to 22 months in federal prison for crimes related to his fraudulently acting as a medical review officer on Department of Transportation-regulated drug tests without being a licensed physician. Bennett, who pled guilty in February to wire fraud and […]September 24, 2010Business10 charged for helping unqualified people obtain false CDLsA federal grand jury in Philadelphia recently charged Vitaliy Kroshnev, his wire, Tatyana, and eight others with identification document and bank fraud and making false statements for their role in an alleged conspiracy to aid more than 300 unqualified people in obtaining false Pennsylvania commercial driver’s licenses from 2007 to 2010 under the auspices of […]September 24, 2010BusinessNew Century plans to go publicNew Century Transportation, Inc. has become the second trucking company in less than a week to file a registration statement for an initial public offering of common stock. The Westampton, N.J.-based truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier told the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 11 that it expects to raise $120 million in the IPO. […]August 13, 2010BusinessUS 1 revenues up sharply in second quarterUS 1 Industries – a Valparaiso, Ind.-based company that owns and supports separate, primarily non-asset, trucking companies around the United States – said its revenues of $52.6 million for the quarter ended June 30 were 16.9 percent higher than the same 2009 quarter. Net income was $500,000 – an improvement over the $300,000 profit posted […]August 11, 2010BusinessCourt backs Mayflower in chargeback caseMayflower Transit may assess a 10-cent per mile fee on its owner-operators to cover the cost of insurance, a federal appeals court confirmed Aug. 9. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association had sued Mayflower, arguing that the chargeback amounted to a mandatory purchase of insurance from the motor carrier, which is prohibited by the federal regulations […]August 9, 2010BusinessPanther Expedited files to go publicPanther Expedited Services, Inc., on Aug. 6 filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock. The Seville, Ohio, based-expedited transportation company said in the preliminary prospectus that its non-asset based transportation network consists of approximately 1,075 exclusive-use owner-operator vehicles, more than 1,600 third-party ground carriers […]August 6, 2010BusinessTrucking adds 5,900 jobs in JulyThe for-hire trucking industry continued to add jobs in July even as the overall U.S. economy lost jobs, according to preliminary figures released Aug. 6 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Payroll employment was up 5,900 over July, although that July figure had been revised downward by 1,700 from the figures […]August 6, 2010BusinessMax Fuller gets his 50,000th FreightlinerFew trucking executives buy 50,000 trucks over the course of their careers, but Max Fuller has accomplished something even more unusual. On Aug. 5, the co-chairman and chief executive officer of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based U.S. Xpress took delivery of his 50,000th truck of a single make – Freightliner. In a ceremony at U.S. Xpress’ headquarters, Fuller […]August 6, 2010BusinessCourt sides with Prime in back-solicitation caseA federal appeals court on Aug. 2 overturned a jury verdict that had ordered Prime Inc. to pay third-party logistics provider Alliance 3PL Corp. about $2.2 million in damages for back-solicitation of a customer Prime had served under contract with Alliance. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that because Prime had […]August 4, 2010Previous PagePage 18 of 85Next PageTop StoriesDriver coaching and scorecardingDrivers rank camera as top safety tech, as long as it faces outwardTruck drivers ranked a camera, depending on which way it faces, as having a good and bad influence on driver safety.Test DrivesQuick spin: Pete's electric Model 579Recruiting & retentionTrucking's youth movement lagging, but no retirement in sight for most driversTechnologyTransportation a top 10 target of cyberattackers, cases nearly triple last yearFeatured SponsorDownload the Heavy Duty Maintenance Checklist