The Playbook

TruckSmarter and its AI chat-based driver app, Dispatch, have been sold and will be shut down on Friday.

A March theft report grew into a statewide investigation involving grain facilities across Texas. Authorities are examining more than 200 loads, and additional arrests remain possible.

The victims, ages 5 to 9, shared one sleeper bunk while traveling commercial routes between Atlanta and Miami. Authorities say they used cups and paper bags as toilets.

Diesel futures prices are near a post-war high.

The Aug. 10-14 enforcement action involved people from 18 countries. CBP also reported two human-smuggling interdictions, a firearm seizure and drug seizures.

A tractor-trailer declared as carrying leeks entered Texas through the Pharr International Bridge. CBP officers found 395 packages of suspected methamphetamine worth $10.75 million.

Two shipments left an Anheuser-Busch distribution center in Montclair, California, on Aug. 17 but never reached their destinations. Police are investigating whether fraudulent documentation, trucking details and driver information connect the cargo thefts.

Falsified documents were used to pick up the Nike shipment in Memphis before investigators recovered $647,420 in merchandise in Illinois.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its broker transparency rulemaking to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on August 27, clearing the last internal checkpoint before publication and moving a document that had missed two target dates this year into the final stage of executive branch review. The listing shows the […]

Arizona law enforcement coordinated two interstate stops after an investigator located a stolen trailer. Officers recovered roughly $400,000 in cargo within minutes.

Reported U.S. cargo theft incidents rose 5% in Q2, with California and Texas accounting for more than half of recorded cases. Electronics led targeted commodities, while Southern California remained a major cargo theft hot spot.

Two men received 15-year federal prison sentences after investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of methamphetamine concealed among cucumber boxes. The June 2025 investigation began with surveillance of a commercial trailer.

There is a question hanging over the small carrier world right now, and two of the most knowledgeable transportation attorneys in the country did not flinch from it when they sat down separately on The Long Haul. The question is whether the small carrier, the one-truck owner-operator and the five-truck fleet, still has a viable […]

The sheriff’s release identifies Atlanta and Orlando as the shipment’s intended destinations. It also raises new questions about how contraband can move through commercial freight.

Deputies traveling toward Ludlow found two abandoned vehicles matching descriptions from the rail investigation. BNSF police confirmed boxes inside came from a boxcar.

Barstow deputies stopped a westbound vehicle on Interstate 40 after reports of people entering railroad boxcars. The driver fled on foot before officers took him into custody, according to the sheriff’s department.

The benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges hit a significant milestone this week.

Federal prosecutors say the group stole checks from mail routes, marketed them online and shipped them to buyers nationwide.

A commercial detergent shipment concealed 240 packages of suspected methamphetamine. CBP officers found the drugs during a secondary inspection at the Roma International Bridge.

The Aug. 20 operation occurred at an Edinburg, Texas, truck stop. Officials immediately took the driver into custody.