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Illinois trucking company, brokerage file for bankruptcy liquidation

A 36-year-old Illinois trucking company and brokerage ceased operations recently and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

B.T. Trucking Inc. of Broadview, Illinois, doing business as Blue Thunder Trucking, and its three affiliated companies — B.T. Transportation Group Inc., JPL Transport Inc. and Rysoti Inc. — filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on July 19 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

At the time of its closure, Blue Thunder had 75 drivers and the same...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/illinois-trucking-company-brokerage-file-for-bankruptcy-liquidation

Federal lawsuit alleges Port of LA polluting San Pedro Bay

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Port of Los Angeles alleges that the port is polluting Los Angeles Harbor.

The suit, brought by nonprofit Environment California, accuses the port of violating national permit limits on discharges of enterococci bacteria, fecal coliform bacteria, total coliform bacteria, copper and petroleum hydrocarbons. The port is violating the federal Clean Water Act, according to the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

The...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-lawsuit-alleges-port-of-la-polluting-san-pedro-bay

SEC charges 2 executives in $112M trucking Ponzi scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two more Florida executives with participating in a truck investment venture that allegedly bilked investors out of $112 million. 

Ricardi Celicourt, 40, of Coconut Creek, and Brisly Guillaume, 39, of Boynton Beach, were named in a lawsuit filed by the SEC on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The lawsuit charges both with violations of securities registration and broker-dealer registration provisions.

T...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sec-charges-2-executives-in-112m-trucking-ponzi-scheme

2 Miami trucking companies file for bankruptcy protection

Two Miami-based trucking companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A1 Transport Network and AB Brothers USA both filed petitions Saturday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

According to the trucking companies’ petitions, Ivan Antigua Escobar is listed as president of A1 Transport Network and serves as general manager of AB Brothers USA, which lists Johania Tomas Diaz as president.

According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2-miami-trucking-companies-file-for-bankruptcy-protection

Business as usual at many of nation’s ports despite global tech outage

A massive technology outage Friday morning caused widespread disruptions across industries, but it’s mostly business as usual at America’s ports. 

The global outage grounded flights and impacted local governments and a variety of companies. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said a defect in a content update for Windows, not a security incident or cyberattack, caused the outage. The issue has been identified and a resolution is coming, the statement said.

Most ports FreightWaves spoke to Friday...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/business-as-usual-at-many-of-nations-ports-despite-global-tech-outage

NullShip selling counterfeit postal labels, FreightWaves investigation finds

Ravi Singh was intrigued when a company promising low shipping rates reached out to him on LinkedIn. 

Singh, CEO and founder of 3PL warehouse Singh Logistics, was contacted in July 2023 by a representative of NullShip Shipping Solutions, a Florida-based company claiming to offer “easy shipping fulfillment at the highest discount rates from world-wide known carriers.” With prices ranging from $3 to $9, Singh was interested; his Indiana-based company ships some 3,000 packages a day.

He closed on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nullship-selling-counterfeit-postal-labels-freightwaves-investigation-finds

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