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Last-mile liability and the reputational harm shippers face

Ans Rana has sued Amazon, claiming that an Amazon Delivery Service Provider (DSP) driver working for Harper Logistics in Georgia ran into his vehicle, leaving him with serious brain and spinal cord injuries and facing an uncertain future.

The details of the 24-year-old’s case claim the van’s driver was rushing to meet unrealistic delivery timelines, but it goes deeper than that. Generally, Amazon, which is facing 119 lawsuits involving injuries sustained with Amazon or DSP vehicles filed just...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/last-mile-liability-and-the-reputational-harm-shippers-risk

Misuse of B-1 visas undercuts US trucking industry, observers say

Jessie Maldonado’s family’s trucking company has been in business for around 30 years in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

The cross-border firm also has operations across several other Mexican cities, as well as a location in Laredo, Texas.

“It took my family’s business years to get to 500 trucks, open offices in Mexico and the United States,” Maldonado said. “About five, six years ago, you started seeing these companies around Laredo start with one truck, then a year later they have 100, 200 trucks. How...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/misuse-of-b-1-visas-undercuts-us-trucking-industry

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