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Dalilah’s Law Day 3: Driver got 20 years. Trucks got new paper. Owners walked.
Three generations of the McKellar family died on Interstate 20 on June 28, 2025, when a Hope Trans truck hauling U.S. mail drove into stopped traffic…
 • Rob Carpenter
Diesel up 50%, rates up 11%. Tire and hours violations followed.
Hours-of-service violations at fleets with more than 100 trucks went from falling 7.4% to rising 8.6% in the first two months of the 2026 diesel spike…
 • Rob Carpenter
Dalilah’s Law Series Day 3: 18 months after the I-35 pileup the NTSB file says Texas issued the wrong CDL
On March 13, 2025, a tractor-trailer hauling an Amazon load drove into stopped traffic in a work zone on Interstate 35 in North Austin, and five people…
 • Rob Carpenter
Day 2. The Dalilah Coleman crash, from a Bakersfield loading dock to Highway 395. Three carrier names, one truck.
Here’s the story of Dalilah’s crash. From the crash date to the courthouse. Dalilah's Law reaches the driver's license. It doesn't reach the dock.
 • Rob Carpenter
Pass Dalilah’s Law Day 1. Two licenses, one U-turn, 13 months: Fort Pierce is still the whole argument for Dalilah's Law.
On Aug. 12, 2025, a tractor-trailer tried a U-turn through an "Official Use Only" crossover on Florida's Turnpike and three people died under the…
 • Rob Carpenter
Truckers say they'll park it Oct. 1. Owner-operators legally can't, and history says they won't stick together if they try.
There was a time when trucking could shut down freight with one contract. Today there's no brotherhood, no association and no leader behind the Oct. 1…
 • Rob Carpenter
The Fraud Hotline Whack-a-Mole and the 1,476 VINs on 1 Truck
Enforcement has aimed a public tip line at drivers. FMCSA data puts the equipment-fraud concentration almost ten times over-represented in Illinois and…
 • Rob Carpenter
Did we forget? Are 80k lb trucks the next, much bigger, surface-based 9/11?
Every year we say, "Never Forget." But did we forget? In many ways, we did, and will that cause this to repeat?
 • Rob Carpenter
It’s 9/11. We remember the fallen and recognize first responders, first responders do this everyday. Last night it was an I81 truck crash.
Thursday night's I-81 Frederick County crash closed the interstate both ways, and video appears to show a patrol vehicle burning. On June 23, a…
 • Rob Carpenter
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 • Rob Carpenter
The Pahira Complaint Names the Broker. It Still Can't Reach the Money
Patricia Pahira sued on September 2. The pleading raises three new questions about the man behind the wheel, the broker, and the insurer.
 • Rob Carpenter
ELDT Schools Revoked. The Registry Posted the Names. They Aren't All Schools.
Here’s their names.
 • Rob Carpenter
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