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August 2026

The Kill Switch We Left on the Trucks That Defend the US hauling DOW freight
Eleven pardons, a dead enforcement program, and the technology thats still bolted to every truck on the road including those that move DOW Freight
 • Rob Carpenter
Free Rent: Why Highway doesn't want to buy the cow when the milk is free.
Motivc didnt make a decision, they just asked to be paid for work performed and data provided that facilitated hundreds of millions in revenue. Highway…
 • Rob Carpenter
Inside DOW Freight and how the Brookwood Twelve Are Still on the Books
A convicted military freight briber, the seven companies that never left FMCSA's census, and the question TRANSCOM can't answer about who has the load
 • Rob Carpenter
The slow boil decline of the trucking industry that started with a button
Two sticks became one stick became no stick. The wrench left the side box. The mechanic left the driver's seat one convenience at a time, and every…
 • Rob Carpenter
Lindsay Clancy and her fan club show us that not all women who give birth are mothers
My mother vanished when I was three. Her mother sold her babies for a living. Neither of them killed a child, and that distinction is the whole point of…
 • Rob Carpenter
The parking desert
Where a Trucker's Clock Runs Out with Nowhere Legal to Stop
 • Rob Carpenter
Where “No Name Given” came from
A database placeholder became a legal identity on green cards, CDLs, and now a federal wanted poster. Trucking has been living with the consequences for…
 • Rob Carpenter
Texas DPS does what it can. Texas Law wrote the loopholes.
DPS troopers testified Monday about the mail-order Mexican CDLs they've been catching since 2021. The statute that tells DPS not to test English is…
 • Rob Carpenter
Four Insurers Walked Away From the Super Ego Network. Someone's Paying the Tab.
I'm going to walk through four separate insurers, four separate sets of paper, and one network, then explain the machine that converts this into your…
 • Rob Carpenter
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