The president tours the Peterbilt plant and speaks to workers Thursday as the White House credits its 25% heavy-truck tariff with 1,000+ new Denton jobs — figures FreightWaves says it could not independently confirm.
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A truck was swept away in a wash near 14th Street and Carefree Highway, I-17 and SR-238 saw closures, and flood watches ran into the evening.
Trump heads to Peterbilt's Denton plant Thursday, diesel keeps outrunning spot rates, a fatal I-35W crash in Minneapolis, and monsoon flooding hits Phoenix highways.
The most senior finalist class ever — six of the 11 semifinalists left service at E-7 or above — competes for a Kenworth T680 with 76-inch sleeper.
Abbott's disaster proclamation opens Texas roads to dyed diesel and 95,000-pound fuel, ag, and timber loads; Kemp's order suspends gas and diesel taxes through Oct. 29.
The state says FMCSA found it in 'substantial non-compliance' under an expiration rule that doesn't exist in any statute; a ruling typically takes months.
Nebraska's two 90-day orders allow dyed diesel for ag haulers and 25% overweight crop loads, plus a request to pause diesel exports; Montana mirrors FMCSA's fuel-hauler HOS waiver intrastate.
The unsupervised 219-mile Dallas–Houston leg caps four years, 1,300+ IKEA loads, and 750,000 autonomous miles with a safety observer.
D.C. Circuit judges grilled FMCSA over why visa holders are exempt from the ban, while state data shows North Dakota issuing more non-domiciled CDLs than before.
The Federation of Professional Truckers' petition drew 901 public comments; the agency says MAP-21 bars blanket exemptions and FOPT failed to show safety equivalence.
All-in rates rose, but van linehaul was flat and reefer and flatbed linehaul fell — the entire gain came from the fuel surcharge.
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