Legal issues

Former trucking company co-owner gets 15 months for wire fraud

A former North Carolina trucking company co-owner was sentenced to 15 months in prison for orchestrating an elaborate $500,000 wire fraud scheme, according to federal prosecutors.

Nathaniel Brad Moffit, 40, of Statesville, North Carolina, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Statesville on Thursday, after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in November.

He must serve two years of supervised release once he finishes his prison sentence. He also has been ordered to repay his former...

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California targets two trading companies over fuel prices, but diesel isn’t part of the lawsuit

The California Attorney General this week went after what it said was a scheme to inflate fuel prices in California, where prices at the pump are always significantly higher than the rest of the country.

But from the perspective of a trucker paying those prices, there’s one problem with the action –  the lawsuit in federal court doesn’t even mention diesel. 

In the suit brought by the office of the state Attorney General Xavier Becerra in the state court system, California charges that two...

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Drayage truckers ramp up chassis-rate dispute with ocean carriers

U.S. trucking companies claiming that foreign ocean carriers have been manipulating the intermodal chassis-leasing market at the truck carriers’ expense are ready to take their dispute to federal regulators.

In a May 4 letter to the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association (OCEMA), whose members represent 80% of the U.S. container market, the Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) warned that they will be filing a formal complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) unless...

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Thirty days means 30 days: Appeals court rules for hauler against trucker

In a decision regarding payments between an independent owner-operator and the trucking company that hired their services, the words of a federal appellate court judge may be sound advice for all drivers: “Trust, but verify.”

Judge Joel Flaum noted the phrase — which he said is of Russian origin but popularized by President Ronald Reagan, who put Flaum on the bench — in denying driver Michael Stampley’s lawsuit alleging Altom Transport underpaid him. Altom’s website describes it as a hauler of...

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Family of Wyoming man killed in truck crash sues driver, carrier

The family of a man killed two years ago in a tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 80 in Albany County, Wyoming, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and one of its former drivers.

Vidal Madera, 57, of Laramie, Wyoming, died when Tonya Hightower, 48, of Wichita, Kansas, lost control of her rig while traveling westbound on I-80 around 5:15 a.m. on March 21, 2018, drove through the median and hit Madera, who was driving a 2001 Chevy Cavalier in the eastbound...

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