Ellis Easton Trucking LLC

08/24/2018

This week, a Mississippi court sentenced a former dispatcher to the maximum penalty prison on embezzlement charges related to an elaborate Comchek fraud scheme against KLLM Transport Services LLC.

08/21/2018

A Mercedes driver got a painful lesson about the consequences of cutting off trucks after his vehicle was pushed a mile down I-35 in San Antonio yesterday afternoon.

08/03/2018

Texas police are warning truckers to stay in their lane at the toll booth after a FedEx truck driver scraped his way through a cars-only lane.

07/24/2018

New York police say that a dump truck driver with a raised bed became tangled in power lines and took out more than a dozen utility poles in a crash that left more than a thousand people without power yesterday.

07/24/2018

One supply chain executive says this has been the worst year for cost pressures, with increases between 10% and 20% to cover freight increases.

07/19/2018

Land O’Lakes Chief Supply Chain Officer, Yone Dewberry, told an audience, “We’ve created it” (the truck driver shortage). “As an industry” (shippers), “we’ve done this to ourselves.” Land O'Lakes is scrambling to cover their loads, and participating in some interesting pilots.

07/07/2018

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared a New Mexico truck driver to be an imminent hazard to public safety in the wake of a head-on crash that claimed the life of another truck driver and his passenger.

07/05/2018

This week the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that they would be moving forward with a pilot program that will allow certain 18 to 21 year old military veterans or reservists to operate commercial vehicles interstate.

07/03/2018

BI PRIME: There aren't enough truck drivers to move the world's cargo around. According to a team of analysts at Morgan Stanley, costs across the industry are likely to continue rising and could reach a breaking point where shippers explore other options.

06/27/2018

A North Dakota congressman recently introduced a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a study to determine how many truck drivers have left their jobs because of Electronic Logging Device (ELD) regulations.

06/27/2018

06/26/2018

The Iowa Department of Transportation recently announced that they are considering a plan to shutter nearly half of the state's rest areas -- a decision that could leave truckers in the lurch when they need parking.