Alex Lockie

Speed limiters, the Ice Pick Bandit, broker transparency, Trump taking back the White House -- what might get your vote for the most important trucking story in 2024?

In 2024, truckers labored under threat of onerous regulations threatening steep fines, weak rates, nuclear verdicts in court, a freight crime wave and an increasingly paranoid freight brokerage scene, not to mention an actual maniac attacking truck tires with an ice pick in the dead of night.

Overdrive examines the spot freight market impact of FMCSA's Clearinghouse II regulation downgrading CDLs in November. Did 178,000 get downgraded?

Verified Carrier partners with big brokers to re-vet carriers -- at a cost. This latest turn in the carrier vetting craze is big news for owner-operators.

The infamous Ice Pick Bandit struck at a Love's truck stop off I-75 in Macon, Georgia, on January 9, and one unlucky driver suffered a blowout as a result.

Carriers' data privacy concerns are well-known and well-founded, but here carrier vetting platform Highway gives some answers and maybe even a solution.

8 in 10 predict positive outcomes for rates if FMCSA's proposal to increase freight transaction records transparency reaches implementation stage as proposed.

Pictures of the suspect in the Ice Pick Bandit case released by Florida Highway Patrol in 2023. More recent images from Fall 2024 attacks in Tennessee can be found at this link.

The association praised FMCSA's proposal to enforce broker transparency, but pointed to a few loopholes that could give the game away.

At least eight more trucks got hit in Pleasant View, Tennessee, about 400 miles from the last string of attacks.