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Trucking industry headlines, major company developments, freight theft, lawsuits, and stories drivers are talking about.
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Freight Rates Are Going Up. So Why Aren’t Truck Drivers Celebrating?
Carriers are talking about higher contract rates, but a freight recovery isn’t the same thing as a raise for the person driving the truck.
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A Truck Hanging Over I-5, a Passenger Trapped Inside, and the Strangers Who Stopped to Help
A moving truck caught fire while dangling over I-5 in San Diego. As a passenger escaped, strangers stepped up to help—and reminded us why the good people on…
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Great Dane’s Do-Not-Tow Recall: The Trailer That Might Not Couple Properly
Great Dane recalled 69 Champion dry van trailers over a coupling defect and told owners not to tow them. What drivers and fleets should check—and why a routine…
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Thirty-One Staged Truck Crashes, Seventy-Seven Plaintiffs, and One Attorney Headed to Prison
Federal prosecutors say attorney Danny Patrick Keating Jr. knowingly paid for 31 staged truck crashes, represented 77 plaintiffs tied to them, and settled 17 cases. His prison sentence…
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A Fake Freight Broker Nearly Stole $273,000 in Seafood. The Driver Followed the Instructions.
An impersonator redirected 29,000 pounds of seafood in New Jersey. Police stopped the transfer, but the case shows how easily a real driver can be drawn into freight…
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C.H. Robinson Is Buying RXO for $5.8 Billion. Truckers Have a Few Questions.
Apparently, five billion dollars doesn’t buy quite as much as it used to. If you’re running a trucking company, that kind of money could purchase an absolutely ridiculous…
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AI Is Booking Freight Now. What Exactly Are We Getting Ourselves Into?
The article discusses the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the trucking industry, focusing on how AI systems are revolutionizing freight negotiations and dispatching. While skepticism exists…
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Thieves Stole PlusAI Trailers — and Got 40,000 Pounds of Sand
Two trailers from PlusAI, an autonomous-trucking company, were stolen in California, initially suggesting a high-value heist. However, they were found abandoned, containing only 40,000 pounds of sand. This…
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Nobody’s in the Truck. So Who’s Handling the Shoulder, the Scale, and the Dock?
Sep 26, 2026 · Excerpt: A self-driving tractor can cover highway miles. But a freight trip also includes breakdown warnings, inspections, gate check-ins, paperwork, and a dock that…
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Enterprise Buys Hogan: What This Big St. Louis Deal Means for Trucking
Another big piece of trucking just got scooped up. Enterprise Mobility — the same family-owned company behind Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National, and Alamo — has bought Hogan, the 100+…