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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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82nd Airborne soldiers have Middle East deployment extended out to a year
Elements of the 82nd Airborne Division will remain deployed in the Central Command area of operations for a total of one year, according to a memorandum signed on Sunday. The deployment extension will keep parts of the division’s headquarters, artillery, sustainment brigade, 3rd Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment and…
Fire Department declares “mass casualty” after 8 vehicle pile up at forced merge in construction zone
An eight vehicle pile up on Interstate 291 on Monday morning was declared “mass casualty” by the responding fire department. The accident happened on the morning of August 31st in South Windsor, Connecticut on westbound I-291 between exits 2 and 1D. According to the Stamford Advocate, the pile up involved a school…
The military’s ChatGPT is now live via the Pentagon’s GenAI platform
The Pentagon’s secure artificial intelligence platform now has ChatGPT.The Department of Defense on Monday launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil, making the chatbot available for work involving controlled unclassified information, or CUI — sensitive government information that is not classified but still requires specific safeguards. The department said ChatGPT Mil…
USDOT shuts down 110 CDL schools for English proficiency violations
Federal transportation officials announced the closure of more than 100 truck driver training facilities for language violations as part of “a historic interagency effort to crack down on fraud in the trucking industry.”On August 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced a series of actions to reduce trucking…
DHS sweeps 200 CDL schools as DMV employees, motor carriers targeted over unqualified drivers
Top brass from the Trump administration on Monday announced a "whole of government" crackdown on truck driver schools, state CDL testers, and motor vehicle-department employees who issue CDLs to drivers who can't speak English and don't meet federal requirements. Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, the White House and state…
Pentagon scraps public weapons testing reports amid oversight concerns
Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the independent office tasked with reviewing new military programs and weapons pulled all public reports from its website. “One of the most important functions of (the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation) is to provide transparency about the safety and…
2027 emissions regs rollback dropped used truck prices in July
The used-truck market cooled in July as more clarity around emissions regulations led to fleets taking delivery of trucks previously ordered.J.D. Power reported in its monthly Commercial Truck Guidelines report that used retail sales volume was essentially flat in July from June, falling by just a tenth of a truck…
Truck driver hauling produce arrested for drug trafficking at Florida ag inspection station
A truck driver faces felony charges after Florida agricultural inspection officers located suspected fentanyl in the cab of his semi truck.On August 28, 2026, the Florida Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) announced the arrest of Joginder Singh, 30, of Bellerose, New York, on felony drug trafficking charges.Singh was operating…
DOD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries
With more than a half-dozen commissaries on military bases in the continental U.S. reporting refrigeration outages this week, the Pentagon is acknowledging the problem but not making any guesses as to its source.The outages affected at least Fort Irwin, California; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Naval Station Newport, Rhode…
DOD schools struggle to identify, support military children with learning disabilities, GAO finds
For military families, a permanent change of station can mean more than adjusting to a new school. Government Accountability Office officials told Military Times that parents have repeatedly reported problems transferring educational records and individualized education programs when military families move, sometimes delaying services or leaving educators to reconstruct a…