Trucking

For most of the past year, two federal agencies have been doing more to reshape the trucking driver pool than anything else in the industry: the Department of Transportation with its non-domiciled CDL crackdown, and the Department of Homeland Security with its immigration enforcement raids. DOT and DHS have operated in close coordination — DOT […]

This week in Borderlands Mexico: GM, Stellantis drive auto exports to US in February; BNSF Railway breaks ground on $500M logistics center north of Dallas; and global shipper opens ground freight hub in Fontana.

Let’s start with something that sounds simple but changes everything about how you should read the freight market: retail is the engine that drives truckload freight. Not manufacturing alone. Not energy. Retail. When Americans buy things — clothes, furniture, electronics, appliances, home goods, groceries — those products move on trucks. Multiple times. From a factory […]

FMCSA just put the industry on formal notice of the sale of MC authorities and DOT numbers.

Three times in five years. That is how many times the federal standard governing whether an owner-operator is legally classified as an independent contractor or an employee has fundamentally shifted under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The 2021 Trump rule. The 2024 Biden rule. And now, on February 27, 2026, the Department of Labor’s formal […]

FMCSA does not publish emergency bulletins for hypothetical problems. When a federal agency puts out a formal, dated, publicly addressed warning that begins with the phrase “DO NOT” in all capital letters, it is because the behavior being warned against is happening — at scale, right now — and the agency wants the industry to […]

For the first time, legislation introduced in the 119th Congress would require every motor carrier, subcontractor, and owner-operator hauling Department of Defense freight to certify they have no ties to Chinese military companies, and back that certification up with their signature.

A new report from Uber Freight signals continuing volatility across trucking and global logistics as spot rates rise and policy shifts reshape supply chains.

The freight market is improving. That part is true. Spot rates on the Sonar National Truckload Index climbed from around $2.60 per mile in mid-January to nearly $2.82 by February — a 20-cent jump that had carriers posting on social media for the first time in years without the word “survival” attached to it. Tender […]

The headline writes itself and the industry groups are celebrating: Pell Grants are coming to CDL schools. The American Trucking Associations called it a move that would “dismantle financial barriers that prevent students from low-income households from accessing the career pathways that lead to the trucking industry.” The Secretary of Education said a great education […]

A crash on the Florida Turnpike last August killed three people. The driver was Harjinder Singh, a native of India who had entered the country without authorization in 2018 and was operating a commercial motor vehicle under an out-of-state CDL. On March 6, 2026, the Florida Senate passed a bill in direct response to that […]

The White House has launched trade investigations into 16 U.S. trading partners, potentially paving the way for new tariffs.

Discover emerging identity verification gaps in military logistics and their national security implications.

Layoffs across manufacturing and logistics operations signal companies are recalibrating supply chains amid shifting freight demand and industrial output.

A driver gets his permit in Hawaii, boards a plane to New Jersey, trains Sunday through Thursday, passes a skills test on Friday, flies home Saturday, and walks out of a DMV with a commercial driver’s license. Federal law allowed all of it. That’s the problem.

Mexico’s manufacturers of trucks, tractor-trailers and buses reported sharp year-over-year declines in production, exports and sales in February.

Before you can have an honest conversation about what’s happening to DACA recipients in the trucking industry right now, you have to first be honest about what DACA actually is – because a lot of people are weighing in on this policy debate without a firm grip on the facts, and that confusion is doing […]

Most small carriers do not lose in hiring. They lose in what happens after the handshake — the documentation that didn’t get collected, the employer verification that never got followed up on, the drug test that cleared but nobody logged into the right system, the medical card that expired and sat in a drawer for […]

Diesel is approaching $5 a gallon and the geopolitical situation driving it is not showing signs of a quick resolution. You cannot control what crude does on the futures market. You cannot control what’s happening in the Strait of Hormuz. You cannot control whether the Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts or whether the broker on […]

A bill moving through the House of Representatives right now would establish the first federal framework for putting fully autonomous heavy-duty trucks on public roads. The SELF DRIVE Act of 2026 — formally H.R. 7390, introduced February 5 by Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio — is being framed by its supporters as a necessary step […]