In a sweeping decision, a federal district court judge in California on Friday rejected arguments that the state’s independent contractor law, AB5, should be barred from regulating California’s trucking industry. Judge Roger Benitez of the California federal district court for the state’s Southern district not only failed to order a new injunction, he also tossed…
A Louisiana truck driver has been charged with negligent homicide for his role in a crash last year that killed a Missouri man. The crash was one of several that killed eight people. On Oct. 23, Ronald Britt of Lafayette was driving his 80,000-pound truck around 60 mph on Interstate 55 during a “severe fog”…
By Bart De Muynck The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. Global supply chains have faced many disruptions the past few years, and weather has been a huge part of those. In 2021 we had the Texas freeze, causing the worst…
The clock is ticking on a threat by Uber and Lyft to pull out of Minneapolis on May 1 after the City Council this week overrode a mayoral veto of an ordinance laying out minimum compensation requirements for app-based drivers. The current measure has few substantive differences from a plan that died last year after…
On Episode 694 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking about a wild week in freight that saw a Swift trailer arsonist convicted, a shipment of Pittsburgh Penguins bobbleheads stolen and another CDL school busted for fraudulent testing. Airbus’ distinctive new airline is ready to haul whale-size loads, and FreightWaves’ Eric Kulisch is here to…