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I have been feeling a calling to do what I can to help stop and raise awareness against human trafficking in some way, and today I came across an organization called Truckers Against Trafficking.

This week’s Transport Topics illustrates some non-freight challenges that the trucking industry currently faces: scammers and juries that want to send “messages” to truckers by whacking their wallets.

The U.S. Army has removed all specialty and flatbed freight from its outsourced logistics Defense Transportation Coordination Initiative program because those freight categories have not produced the anticipated cost savings, Transport Topics has learned.

Federal authorities in Ohio have charged 28 individuals with stealing a total of $1.7 million from U.S. trucking companies in a sophisticated money-wiring scheme pulled off at truck stops.

New orders for Class 8 trucks climbed 10.4% in March from a year ago and surpassed 20,000 for a sixth straight month, according to ACT Research.

Auto haulers, who have struggled during five years of depressed sales of cars and light trucks, are finally enjoying some good times.

As publicly traded carriers begin reporting first-quarter results later this week, executives from privately owned fleets told Transport Topics that the first three months of 2013 were choppy, with freight growth hampered by winter weather and uncertainty over federal economic policies.

Freight brokers and third-party logistics companies are making inroads in the less-than-truckload market, a trend that reflects the desire by those firms to expand and diversify beyond traditional truckload markets, according to industry analysts.

A New Mexico jury has awarded the family of a person killed in a 2010 truck-involved accident $58.5 million in damages, believed to be the largest truck accident verdict ever.

President Obama is expected to unveil a budget Wednesday that contains billions of dollars in new infrastructure funding as he steps up pressure on Congress to invest in the nation’s roads, bridges, ports and public transit.