A Massachusetts man faces up to 15 years in prison after investigators linked his commercial driving exams to a Bluetooth cheating operation. Phone records and an undercover investigation exposed how the $3,000 scheme worked.
As veteran dispatchers and ops managers age out of the workforce, small and mid-size freight operators are stuck running decades-old systems that never got the AI investment enterprise carriers did. Evos, an autonomous operation launching this fall, says it can capture that institutional knowledge and put it to work before it walks out the door.
Volvo Trucks North America launched the Silver Service Contract at ATA’s Management Conference, adding powertrain repair coverage to its connected Blue maintenance plan.
A New Mexico jury awarded $47 million to a pick up truck driver and his mother following a 2022 tanker truck crash near Carlsbad.
Federal officers discovered 76 bags of suspected contraband during a secondary examination. Homeland Security Investigations now faces questions about the shipment’s origin, destination and those responsible.
TLA Group’s Telly Arnold says box truck newcomers hear about revenue first, then learn about insurance deposits, freight claims and breakdowns the hard way.
Nearly 100 people had their personal information compromised. Federal investigators traced the proceeds through international bank transfers before authorities arrested the operator following 18 months in Turkey.
This week in Borderlands Mexico: US trucking crackdown raises concerns over freight disruptions; M2 Global Logistics launches in Houston; and Cutter & Buck opens new distribution center in Texas.
Job boards show Tesla recruiting for Semi assembly, quality and service roles in Sparks as WattEV, IMC and the ZET SCALE alliance line up electric Class 8 orders.
Georgia trucker Shawn Gresham has launched a free platform combining parking locations, roadside repair listings, diesel prices and driver resources.
Operation Icebreaker exposed a drug trafficking network that moved cocaine from California through unsuspecting trucking companies. Authorities seized more than 45 kilograms of cocaine, while a suspected supplier reportedly claimed deliveries of up to 60 kilograms every 15 days.
New Descartes MacroPoint ELD+ feature has been rolled out to track a shipment’s ELD, trailer GPS, and driver mobile app simultaneously rather than picking a single source. Andrew Wimer, Associate General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes, joined FreightWaves’ What the Truck?!? to explain how the added redundancy closes visibility gaps, flags potential fraud, and keeps drivers in the loop.
Fleetworthy added four states to Expedited Inspection, which hands enforcement a driver’s eRODS file when a truck is selected. A Nevada sergeant puts the savings at about 15 minutes.
Peter Voorhoeve says infrastructure work and the data center boom will keep vocational demand strong, and Volvo built the VNX to stop sitting out a quarter of the market
Westport Fuel Systems is now Aetherion Technologies. CEO Dan Sceli said the rename follows a narrower strategy built on HPDI and the Cespira joint venture with Volvo.
Waabi says its Dallas-Houston commercial load volume is up more than 80% this year, and Warrior Logistics is now running routine customer freight on the corridor
The VNX shares a platform with the VNL and VNR, the product of a $3 billion investment, and gets a 540-horsepower D13 rated to EPA 2027 standards with 630 braking horsepower
Investigators found missing load-security measures, conflicting carrier information and two identification cards after stopping the truck near Lincoln.
Pilot Travel Centers and Tesla have opened their first Megacharger site for heavy-duty electric trucks, Pilot said Oct. 8. The site, at a Pilot travel center in Ellabell, Ga., has six charging stalls. Twelve more heavy-duty sites are under construction, and three are nearly finished: a Flying J in Tulare, California, which opened Oct. 9; […]
Mexico’s heavy-duty vehicle exports surged 144.6% in September, driven in part by U.S. demand ahead of new emissions requirements.
