Livestock hauler sentenced for shutdown order violation

A U.S. district court has sentenced the owner of a Tennessee livestock transport company to a year’s probation for violating an imminent hazard out-of-service order.

Theresa Vincent, owner-operator of Terri’s Farm in Murfreesboro, was sentenced Nov. 21 in Nashville’s federal court, according to the DOT Office of Inspector Gene... Read More

A federal court has sentenced a Georgia woman after pleading guilty late last year in a double brokering scheme.

Pauline Robinson-Kirkland was sentenced earlier this month in U.S. District Court, Albany, Ga. to one-year probation and ordered to pay $5,490 in restitution. 

The investigation revealed that Robinson-Kirkland accessed web sites advertising loads of commercial freight available for t... Read More

The logistics security services company, FreightWatch International, reports in the third quarter of the year it recorded a total of 231 thefts in the United States, the same amount as a year ago, but the value of each theft averaged less.

The average loss value per incident during the quarter was $154,866. Compared with the third quarter of last year, these results are equal in volume and 15% lowe... Read More

In the third quarter of 2012, FreightWatch recorded a total of 225 thefts in the United States, with an average loss value per incident of $172,403, a 23% increase from the previous three months of the year.

There were 78 thefts in July, 71 in August and 76 in September.

FreightWatch has created three new product categories to reduce the number of thefts being lumped into "miscellaneous."

C... Read More