One tweet perfectly highlights the bizarre position Microsoft is in with ‘Minecraft’

Microsoft's ownership of "Minecraft" has made for some decidedly strange situations. There was...

Trump tapes? If they exist, they could spell trouble

For the first time since an Oval Office taping system was removed by President Richard Nixon's chief of staff nearly 44 years ago, a president has hinted that White House conversations might again be secretly ...

Trump’s frustrations are boiling over after Comey dismissal

After four months in office, President Donald Trump has become distrustful of some of his White House staff, heavily reliant on a handful of family members and longtime aides, and furious that the White ...

Six Steps to Thwart Cargo Theft

Late on a Saturday night in March 2010, as a powerful Nor'easter lashed the Northeast with high winds and heavy rain, a trailer was backed up to an out-of-the-way warehouse in the northern Connecticut town of Enfield.

Before dawn on Sunday, a crew of thieves entered the facility surreptitiously and loaded their trailer with a $60 million load of pharmaceuticals — driving off with the record for the biggest theft ever recorded in the Nutmeg State.

How did they do it? Well, for one thing, these crooks were, as the FBI put it in a recent press release, “experts at their trade, members of a criminal group known as the Cuban Mob,” who knew how to conduct surveillance, how to discover and disarm alarm systems, and how to load and move freight.

That dark and stormy night made it easy for the crew of thieves to case the joint unseen and check for security guards before backing into the dock. Then a ladder stashed earlier in the back parking lot was used by two of the burglars to get up on the roof, cut a hole, and lower themselves into the building. Once inside, they disabled the alarm — to anyone monitoring the system remotely, it seemed the storm had knocked the power out.

When warehouse employees arrived to work, they found the ladder, the hole in the roof, some discarded tools, and the alarm system beeping as if it needed a battery. Also discovered was the absence of 40 shrink-wrapped pallets of pharmaceuticals, including thousands of boxes of such brand-name meds as Cymbalta and Prozac.

“They took the cream of the crop,” said Special Agent Damian Platosh, who supervised the investigation out of FBI's New Haven Division. “They loaded the exact number of pallets that would fit into the trailer. They knew exactly what ...Read the rest of this story

Trump suggests big changes may be coming for journalists who cover the White House

President Donald Trump aired some of his grievances with reporters after what was arguably one of...

Six Steps to Thwart Cargo Theft

Late on a Saturday night in March 2010, as a powerful Nor'easter lashed the Northeast with high winds and heavy rain, a trailer was backed up to an out-of-the-way warehouse in the northern Connecticut town of Enfield.

Before dawn on Sunday, a crew of thieves entered the facility surreptitiously and loaded their trailer with a $60 million load of pharmaceuticals — driving off with the record for the biggest theft ever recorded in the Nutmeg State.

How did they do it? Well, for one thing, these crooks were, as the FBI put it in a recent press release, “experts at their trade, members of a criminal group known as the Cuban Mob,” who knew how to conduct surveillance, how to discover and disarm alarm systems, and how to load and move freight.

That dark and stormy night made it easy for the crew of thieves to case the joint unseen and check for security guards before backing into the dock. Then a ladder stashed earlier in the back parking lot was used by two of the burglars to get up on the roof, cut a hole, and lower themselves into the building. Once inside, they disabled the alarm — to anyone monitoring the system remotely, it seemed the storm had knocked the power out.

When warehouse employees arrived to work, they found the ladder, the hole in the roof, some discarded tools, and the alarm system beeping as if it needed a battery. Also discovered was the absence of 40 shrink-wrapped pallets of pharmaceuticals, including thousands of boxes of such brand-name meds as Cymbalta and Prozac.

“They took the cream of the crop,” said Special Agent Damian Platosh, who supervised the investigation out of FBI's New Haven Division. “They loaded the exact number of pallets that would fit into the trailer. They knew exactly what ...Read the rest of this story

Commentary: Why Innovation’s More Important Than Ever

Deborah Lockridge

When we started our HDT Truck Fleet Innovators program in 2006, the inaugural group was a veritable who's who of companies that were founded or came into their own after the deregulation of 1980: CFI's Glenn Brown, Heartland's Russ Gerdin, Crete Carrier's Duane Acklie, Swift's Jerry Moyes, Schneider National's Don Schneider, New Century Transportation's Harry Muhlschlegel, and U.S. Xpress' Max Fuller and Pat Quinn.

As I once again sat in U.S. Xpress headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last month interviewing the offspring of Fuller and Quinn, the new leaders of the company, I couldn't help but reflect on the changes we've seen. Gerdin, Acklie, Quinn and Schneider have all passed away. New Century went out of business, and CFI has been sold three times in the intervening years. Moyes recently stepped down at Swift, which now has joined forces with Knight (a later Truck Fleet Innovator, by the way) to form a mega-carrier. Schneider National (now just Schneider) has gone public.

And Max Fuller is still executive chairman at U.S. Xpress, but his son Eric Fuller is now CEO, and Pat Quinn's daughter, Lisa Quinn Pate (an attorney like her late father), is president and chief administrative officer. Max has stepped back to let Eric and Lisa run the day-to-day operations of the company.

Eric and Lisa, of course, are not Max and Pat. And in what looks to be a wise move, they've gone through a five-year transition period of reinventing the management team in a way they believe will better fit the company and the industry as they are today — and prepare for what they will be in the future.

The two are just as innovative in their way as their fathers. This year, HR.com named the company's Xpress Elite program the top corporate leadership program in ...Read the rest of this story