2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (556+ words) And while the issue of federal denial of some highway funding to California was not discussed extensively in the oral arguments, it too was in the background. That funding was withheld as a result of the dispute over California’s practices,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (358+ words) A cartel network involving truckers sent cash loads carrying at least $1 million apiece back into Mexico. Its cocaine operation supplied Atlanta, Georgia, Memphis, Tennessee, and other U.S. cities. Weekly shipments totaled up to 300 kilograms. Roberto Lopez managed logistics, including driver payments....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (572+ words) An Indiana trucker told police he was transporting an empty trailer from Memphis to Indianapolis. A commercial vehicle inspection uncovered 126 kilograms, or about 277 pounds, of cocaine. Police found the drugs inside the tractor’s sleeper compartment, not inside the trailer. Indiana…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (380+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched a tip line for reporting suspected commercial driver’s license fraud, expanding the federal government’s escalating crackdown on alleged fraud and unsafe practices in the trucking industry. ICE announced Tuesday that its Homeland Security…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1005+ words) A dispute over allegations of defective work that resulted in trailers catching fire now is threatening to drag in the manufacturers of some of those components that may be at the root of the incidents. The case of Indiana-based Summitt…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (618+ words) A jury has reached a partial verdict in the New Orleans staged accident scam murder trial, but without a conviction for the death of Cornelius Garrison. Judge Wendy Vitter declared a mistrial following the hung jury declaration. Alfortish, regularly described…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (299+ words) Los Angeles County investigators seized counterfeit merchandise worth an estimated $10 million from a California warehouse. The Aug. 25 search uncovered 25,898 items bearing Nike, Adidas and other trademarks. Deputies targeted a commercial property within Arcadia’s 11600 block of Goldring Road. No arrests followed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (618+ words) Texas authorities placed nearly half of the commercial vehicles inspected during a recent enforcement operation in the Permian Basin out of service, part of a series of truck-safety initiatives conducted across six states. The Texas Department of Public Safety conducted…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (712+ words) Uthmeier identified Tamra Marshon Stewart, 37, as a Jacksonville resident. His office named Keysha Monique Epps, 51, from Atlanta, Georgia. Epps worked as a commercial truck driver while both women served as primary caregivers. Prosecutors filed the charges in Orange County, Florida....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (307+ words) A tractor-trailer arriving from Reynosa, Mexico, carried a shipment declared as leeks into the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped the vehicle at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility in Texas. Officers discovered 395 packages of suspected methamphetamine inside…...