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Workers pursuing Class Action after 100 year old trucking company shutters abruptly without distributing final paychecks or benefits
Employees of an Oregon trucking company are pursuing Class Action grievances after the company shut abruptly without properly compensating them earlier this month. TP Freight Lines based in Oregon notified employees of the closure and shut its doors on August 4th. The next day, the company failed to make payroll. Now, workers are filing unemployment insurance claims, and the Teamsters union…
Woman charged over vandalism of World War II Memorial
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on Friday that a woman had been taken into custody and charged with two felony counts in connection with the vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington.Melissa Farris was charged with depredation against property of the United States and destruction of veterans’ memorials, Pirro said on social media,…
Will Truck Parking Club ever start accepting fuel stop points?
Truck Parking Club has added nearly 6,000 new truck parking locations across the United States, something met with near universal…
Wife of active-duty Army sergeant deported to Honduras
The wife of an active-duty soldier was deported to Honduras on Monday, her husband confirmed.ICE agents detained Cristy Maryori Villafranca…
Why you can tell your attorney anything – almost
Discussions of previous acts, such as speeding or log book violations that went undetected, are generally subject to attorney-client privilege.Max…
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Workers pursuing Class Action after 100 year old trucking company shutters abruptly without distributing final paychecks or benefits
Employees of an Oregon trucking company are pursuing Class Action grievances after the company shut abruptly without properly compensating them earlier this month. TP Freight Lines based in Oregon notified employees of the closure and shut its doors on August 4th. The next day, the company failed to make payroll. Now,…
94-Year-Old Seeks Guinness Record as Oldest Trucker
Orrin Asmus doesn’t use a routing software, doesn’t even own a computer, and he only carries a basic cellphone — no bells and whistles.“I never have had a GPS. That's what they make roadmaps for — to show you how to get there. The cellphones are great because you call…
US Army to end experimental drone battalion in Europe
The Army is ending an experiment with a dedicated drone battalion less than a year after tasking the infantry unit to test how such a formation could operate, an Army official said on Thursday.In November 2025, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, in collaboration with the Department of the Army and…
Midwest company celebrates 100 full years of trucking
American Central Transport celebrated its 100th anniversary on Thursday by expanding driver recognition programs and donating funds to a good cause. ACT began as a small flatbed trucking company known as E. K. Motor Service in Joliet, Illinois in 1926. By 1972, the company was purchased by Tom B. Kretsinger, Sr.,…
Trucker billed for $9k tow after exceeding parking limit by 30 minutes
Charlotte officials are paying attention after a truck driver was charged $9,000 for a tow earlier this year. Truck driver Donald Hicklin Jr. was parked at a lot along Sunset Road in Charlotte, North Carolina when his rig was towed for exceeding the allotted parking limit by 30 minutes. When he…
Son’s ‘Thumper’ 1980 Kenworth K100 matches father’s ’79 model
Kevin Geltmaker: I'm Kevin Geltmaker. I'm the owner of this 1980 Kenworth K100C Aerodyne behind us. It's got a 3408 Caterpillar engine in it, 13 speed with 4.11 Eaton rears. And this is my father, Stuart Geltmaker. He's the one that owns the ’79 K100C Aerodyne that you saw a…
Thousands of soldiers now roam Washington’s streets. They seldom stop crime.
Well past midnight one day this spring, three police officers pulled up to a nightclub where a man was stomping on a young woman lying on the sidewalk.The officers stopped the attack and arrested him, according to a police report. It was the kind of assault police might encounter on…
Hundreds of US military family members trapped at camp facing closure, group says
Sean Jamshidi was a U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who served in some of the service’s most prized roles, including as an embassy security guard detachment commander and in psychological operations. But he feels helpless now to aid his brother, who worked for the U.S. government during the war in…
Fire engulfs four tractor trailers in crash that took one driver’s life
Four semi trucks were involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 65 in Tennessee on Tuesday afternoon. The crash happened at 2:24 p.m. near mile marker 50 on I-65 in Maury County, Tennessee. The identity of the driver killed was released on Wednesday, August 19th. According to News Channel 5, 59-year-old truck…
Trucker killed by flying mudflap that came loose from hotshot pickup
A truck driver is dead after being struck by a piece of a pickup fender with a mudflap attached in upstate New York earlier this week. The accident happened on Monday, August 17th just after 10 p.m. on Interstate 90 eastbound in Hanover, New York. According to the Niagara-Gazette, a 2019 Dodge…