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53 people smuggled in a trailer, 2 trucks, DOW freight, and a carrier that's still authorized to run
53 people were loaded into a trailer at an East El Paso truck yard on Oct. 28. The man's carrier, which still holds active FMCSA authority, and hauled…
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Rob Carpenter
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What a Democratic Congress means for trucking in 2027
Trucking legislation in 2027 won't start from scratch. It's going to start from a stack of bills that have been filed, refiled and renamed for close to…
Nov 8
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Rob Carpenter
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A Queens CDL less than a month old, a trailer across SR 710: what I'm investigating post crash
At 9 p.m. 11/4, a 2021 Kenworth pulling a trailer backed south across all lanes of South Warfield Blvd west of Indiantown. A Subaru hit the trailer and…
Nov 7
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Rob Carpenter
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1099s, lease programs, misclassified drivers and the crash.
Carriers love the 1099 because it moves the truck payment, the fuel, the insurance and the risk onto the driver. Courts keep saying a lot of those…
Nov 6
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Rob Carpenter
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It’s not a driver shortage. The real shortage is bigger than trucking.
Article this week said 5,000 truck drivers in the country can haul America's sensitive freight. The hazmat driver shortage a symptom of a country that…
Nov 5
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Rob Carpenter
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Landslide left, landslide right, and the country never moves. What America is missing is leadership.
Two years after voters handed Republicans the White House and both chambers, they handed Democrats the House and Senate in a wave. Every swing erases…
Nov 4
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Rob Carpenter
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"Chameleon SCACs." One truck, 24 military loads in a day.
I ran the first-ever check of the carrier codes used to award military freight, comparing them against each other. More than half the loads went to…
Nov 4
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Rob Carpenter
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299 trucks on paper. 6,056 on the road.
Five months after we mapped a hotshot network running thousands of trucks under one-truck authorities, FMCSA has put every core company out of service…
Nov 3
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Rob Carpenter
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Dragon in the Cab 2.0. China doesn't need to hijack our military freight. We gave them access.
Last week in Grapevine, I walked the Department of War and the Department of Transportation through every layer where Beijing and domestic bad actors…
Nov 3
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Rob Carpenter
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The anatomy of a learjet crash: 203 megajoules and a crater. Why no Learjet is left in Greenacres.
13 times the energy of a loaded semi, gone in 80 milliseconds. Truck crash math against the numbers on N722BD's final 76 seconds and explains why…
Nov 2
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Rob Carpenter
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Your trucking insurance 101 guide: The truck wasn't on the policy. The insurer still owes you.
Crash victims are told the truck that hit them wasn't on the policy, so there's no coverage. The MCS-90 makes the insurer pay up to the federal minimum…
Nov 1
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Rob Carpenter
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October 2026
Out-of-service order, then back on the road
The same trucks are getting parked for the same thing, again and again.
Oct 31
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Rob Carpenter
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