Iowa trucker accused of attempted murder in I-80 road rage shooting

A semitruck driver has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged road rage incident on Interstate 80 in Jasper County, Illinois.

According to a news release from the Newton Police Department, investigators say 56-year-old Patrick Lee Miller of Malvern, Iowa, was arrested Sunday evening after firing multiple rounds at another semi on I-80.

The release stated that Miller was driving a Peterbilt semi pulling a grain trailer when another semi tried to pass him near the 164-mile marker....

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Trabajadores de logística encargados de importar $ 200 millones en bienes falsos a través de Ports of LA, Long Beach

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Los conductores de camiones, los ejecutivos de logística y los propietarios de almacenes se encuentran entre nueve personas que enfrentan cargos en lo que las autoridades dicen que fue una conspiración para importar $ 200 millones en productos falsificados y otros bienes ilegales de China a los Estados Unidos a través de los puertos de […]

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Logistics workers charged with importing $200M in fake goods via ports of LA, Long Beach

Truck drivers, logistics executives and warehouse owners are among nine people who face charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to import $200 million worth of counterfeit and other illegal goods from China into the United States through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

A 15-count indictment unsealed Friday alleges the defendants unloaded contraband from containers slated for secondary inspection and filled them with other cargo to get them through customs.

Eight people have been...

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Former Polar Air Cargo executive sentenced to 6 months for fraud

Another former executive at Polar Air Cargo was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to six months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the company of $33 million dollars over more than a decade.

Carlton Llewellyn, who served as Polar’s vice president in charge of operations systems performance and quality, 

pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud. He also agreed to forfeit $348,000 and repay Polar nearly $306,000.

Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the...

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Las Vegas trucker charged in North Carolina crash that killed 5

A truck driver has been charged after he was involved in a crash on a North Carolina highway that left five people dead.

Charles Christian Haskell, 51, of Las Vegas, was charged with five counts of death by motor vehicle after a crash involving his tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Wilson County on July 24. 

Haskell was hauling orange juice when he failed to slow his Freightliner tractor-trailer and struck the rear of a 2013 Chevy Tahoe, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. Haskell’s...

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How freight fraud became the perfect crime

Freight fraud has become an all-too-familiar term in the transportation and logistics sectors in recent years. Although fraud has long been a challenge in the field, industry experts observe that these criminals have evolved alongside FreightTech, leaving supply chain participants uncertain about who will bear the burden of finding solutions.

Recently, FreightWaves has received numerous reports of sophisticated freight fraud schemes. 

There is the classic double-brokering scheme, in which a...

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