Three years after the July 2023 shutdown, a settlement in principle would pay former Yellow Teamsters a fraction of the 60 days' damages they sought — with full payment on accrued PTO and sick-time claims expected within months of court approval.
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The Mansfield, Texas-based 3PL — the non-asset flagship division of PS Logistics — bought Carmen Pacheco Transportation and Interload Forwarding, picking up 133 power units, 123 drivers, and more than 550,000 square feet of warehouse space at El Paso and Laredo.
State police targeted commercial vehicles on the truck-restricted Taconic State Parkway on Sept. 30–Oct. 1 — 198 tickets for running the parkway itself, and 4 drivers plus 5 trucks put out of service.
Diesel drops again, a cross-border M&A move, 41,748 recalled Fords — and two enforcement scorecards.
The Logistics Managers' Index priced transportation at 92.7 while capacity fell to 34.4 — record diesel prices and heightened enforcement keep squeezing the market, and aggregate logistics costs hit their highest since April 2022.
A contaminated LED chip in the headlight assemblies can knock out daytime running lights, parking lights, high beams, or low beams — a FMVSS No. 108 noncompliance flagged in NHTSA's weekly commercial-vehicle recall list.
The DOE/EIA national average fell to $6.199 per gallon for the week of Oct. 5 — now $0.33 off the $6.529 all-time high — while analysts warn the red-dye executive order means limited, uneven relief at the pump.
Officers across 36 states, 7 provinces, and Mexico interacted with 8,083 drivers during the July 12–18 campaign — speeding and seat-belt violations again led the list.
The order opens tax-free red-dyed diesel to highway use and defers the $0.244-per-gallon federal tax with no interest or penalties — about $60 on a 250-gallon fill, over $100 where states match.
Through October, plate readers will flag vehicles with registrations suspended over unpaid tolls; $250 in unpaid tolls triggers a PennDOT suspension referral, and the April detail made 200-plus stops.
Starting Oct. 6, Ohio requires disclosure of third-party litigation funding deals; OOIDA says outside investors are bankrolling truck-crash lawsuits and inflating verdicts and insurance costs.
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