Trucking

Rob Carpenter Tuesday, February 24, 2026

A handful of parent companies control America’s trucking insurance market

The seventh installment in FreightWaves’ investigation into America’s trucking insurance crisis reveals that the apparent diversity of the commercial truck insurance market is an illusion. Behind dozens of subsidiary names filing BMC-91s with FMCSA sit a small number of Fortune 500 holding companies. The concentration of risk is worse than anyone in the industry realizes.

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Rob Carpenter Monday, February 23, 2026

The great ELDT CDL swindle that downgraded US trucking

The Entry-Level Driver Training regulations took effect in February 2022 after years of development and industry lobbying. The result was a federal training standard that requires no minimum hours of instruction, relies on self-certification at every checkpoint, and leaves every meaningful decision about actual driver competency to the fifty states, each operating in fifty different ways. The fraud factories did not slow down.

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Rob Carpenter Monday, February 23, 2026

What the IEEPA SCOTUS Ruling Means for American Freight

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Within hours, the White House invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a new 10% global surcharge, later raised to 15%. Up to $175 billion in collected duties now sits in legal limbo. Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum, and heavy trucks remain untouched. For the freight industry, the ruling didn’t end the trade war. It changed the weapons.

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Adam Wingfield Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Shining a Light on Industry Excellence: Why FreightValidate Is Flipping the Script

For the last few years, if you’ve followed trucking headlines, you’d think the entire industry is falling apart. Fraud schemes. Cargo theft. Crash investigations. CDL scandals. Bankruptcy filings. Rate collapses. Regulatory fights. Scroll your feed long enough and it starts to feel like trucking is nothing but dysfunction. But that isn’t the full story. It […]

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