Trucking

Adam Wingfield Tuesday, March 10, 2026

The Non-Domiciled CDL Crackdown Has Arrived – 13,000 Drivers Out, a National Rule A Few Days Away

The deadline everyone in trucking has been watching finally arrived. On March 6, 2026, approximately 13,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses were cancelled in California — not by a clean resolution, not by a negotiated agreement between the state and federal government, but by California bowing under the weight of a funding threat it had already […]

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Thomas Wasson Tuesday, March 10, 2026

The real barrier to driverless trucks is no longer software

The future of driverless trucking lies through not software but on how to produce them at scale. That’s according to newly released research by Telemetry, a communications and research firm heavily invested in the space. FreightWaves spoke with Sam Abuelsamid, Telemetry’s vice president of market research and David Liu, CEO and co-founder of PlusAI about […]

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Rob Carpenter Monday, March 9, 2026

Iran conflict exposes America’s Achilles’ heel

Diesel prices have spiked to $5.96 per gallon in premium markets as escalating Middle East tensions collide with America’s crumbling refinery base. The surge comes at a critical inflection point for trucking, with tender rejection rates climbing and capacity tightening after a brutal four-year freight recession, raising questions about whether the industry can capitalize on the recovery when fuel costs threaten to erase margin gains.

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Adam Wingfield Sunday, March 8, 2026

They’re Selling You a Feeling – What the Trucking Industry’s Marketing Machine Doesn’t Want You to Know

Small carriers and owner operators are not just fighting market conditions. They’re fighting the messaging. Every week, from the moment a DOT number gets applied for to the day a carrier tries to scale beyond their first truck, there is a constant stream of outreach, advertising, promises, and pitches flooding in from every direction. Fuel […]

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Thomas Wasson Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Torc Robotics takes autonomous trucks into Michigan’s snow and ice

Torc Robotics is taking its autonomous trucks where few competitors have ventured: the snow, ice and rain of Michigan’s humid continental climate. The Daimler Truck subsidiary announced it will expand public-road testing to the greater Ann Arbor area using the latest-generation autonomous chassis based on the Freightliner Cascadia. This marks a first and strategic departure […]

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