FMCSA standing up registration fraud team

WASHINGTON — After years of complaints from truckers, brokers and insurance companies, federal regulators are standing up a team specifically to deal with rampant fraud in the trucking industry. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Registration Fraud Team will work in the agency’s registration office to focus solely on assisting those who have been victims…

Loadsmart spotlights small fleets’ technology needs and opportunities

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Wednesday. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Leveraging Technology for Fleet Growth: What Smaller Fleets Need and What Can Be Provided DETAILS: Casey Monahan, vice president of digital sales at LoadSmart, talks with FreightWaves’ Grace Sharkey about what his company’s TMS systems can provide and what today’s growing…

No surprises in Norfolk Southern earnings as COO Orr makes debut

The elephant in the room on the Norfolk Southern earnings call made only a brief appearance. But it will be returning in about two weeks. There were no surprises in the first-quarter earnings report, as the Class 1 railroad (NYSE: NSC) had issued a preliminary report earlier in the month. The final numbers, showing a…

Hawaiian Airlines slowly adds freighters for Amazon business

Hawaiian Airlines has commenced operating a second Airbus A330-300 cargo jet for Amazon on a new route between New York’s JFK airport and the retail behemoth’s West Coast air logistics hub in San Bernardino, California, the company reported in quarterly earnings Tuesday. Under a  transportation services agreement that kicked in last year, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)…