Alex Lockie

Owner-ops have long expressed fears about ELDs, data manipulation, and foreign influence. New research from NMFTA vindicates much of that and could lead to a serious crackdown on "chameleon" devices.

One owner-op's transparency request from TQL revealed the broker taking a 44% margin and initiated a legal battle that now heads to the second highest court in the land.

Scammers evolve, spoofing TQL's phone number and faking emails to offer dedicated lanes, for the low one-time fee of $1,100, or so they say.

With all the attention on CDL issuance, some 40,000 drive trucks without CDLs each year. New Hampshire's Habitual Offender program might just address the problem by offering jail time for real scofflaws.

Rulemaking efforts under way at both FMCSA and NHTSA point toward driverless trucks that might not even feature steering wheels or brake pedals.

New research shows a thriving market for MC number sales, with more trusted MCs gaining tens of thousands in value and FMCSA none the wiser 85% of the time.

Brokers got walloped in rate negotiations in June, records show, with broker margin dipping overall and some indication that contract rates could shoot up as well, according to data from DAT and Ken Adamo.

OOIDA urges Congress to vote on Dalilah's Law after a non-domiciled CDL driver killed a Pennsylvania trooper during a period of legal limbo for FMCSA's CDL crackdown.

President Donald Trump framed the move as a way to replace "illegal alien truck drivers." FMCSA already has a rulemaking in the final stage.

DOT and Homeland Security Investigations said they found 75 CDL schools suspected of fraud, falsifying records, and failing to properly train drivers.