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Nearly 500 violations found in North Dakota truck inspection blitz with ICE and FMCSA
109 inspections in Williston turned up 494 violations — 122 out-of-service — plus 27 citations and 20 warnings.
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Industry leaders warn red-dye diesel relief could cost drivers more in taxes later
Fuel marketers say the tax is still owed, most reputable retailers won't sell dyed fuel for highway use, and residual dye lingers in tanks — "deferral is not forgiveness."
Trucking company owner gets 24 months in prison for $3.5 million Amazon invoice fraud
Ameer Nasir registered 23 trucking businesses — some under false or stolen names — and billed Amazon for more than 1,000 trailer moves that never happened.
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Hurricane Isaias targets the Gulf, driverless trucks get a beacon exemption, HOS pilots move to White House review — and two fraud busts.
U.S.-Mexico trade hits $94.29 billion in August; Laredo stays the nation's busiest gateway
Cross-border commerce jumped 26.75% year over year, with Mexico holding 17.4% of all U.S. international trade — and Laredo alone handling 7.1%.
FMCSA's HOS flexibility pilots move to White House review; comments open through Dec. 7
The split-sleeper and split-duty pilots cleared a new procedural step — and the sleeper study will test 6/4 and 5/5 splits that go well beyond today's rules.
Fake broker scam busted mid-theft: $273,000 in seafood was being unloaded into a box truck
A driver got calls and texts from someone impersonating a freight broker and diverted 29,000 pounds of frozen seafood — police in New Jersey caught the transfer in progress.
Yellow, Teamsters reach WARN Act deal: $17.2 million for five days' damages
Three years after the July 2023 shutdown, a settlement in principle would pay former Yellow Teamsters a fraction of the 60 days' damages they sought — with full payment on accrued PTO and sick-time claims expected within months of court approval.
TA Services acquires two Texas cross-border carriers, adding 133 trucks
The Mansfield, Texas-based 3PL — the non-asset flagship division of PS Logistics — bought Carmen Pacheco Transportation and Interload Forwarding, picking up 133 power units, 123 drivers, and more than 550,000 square feet of warehouse space at El Paso and Laredo.
New York troopers write 376 tickets in two-day Taconic parkway blitz
State police targeted commercial vehicles on the truck-restricted Taconic State Parkway on Sept. 30–Oct. 1 — 198 tickets for running the parkway itself, and 4 drivers plus 5 trucks put out of service.
September LMI: transportation prices near all-time highs as capacity contracts a 10th straight month
The Logistics Managers' Index priced transportation at 92.7 while capacity fell to 34.4 — record diesel prices and heightened enforcement keep squeezing the market, and aggregate logistics costs hit their highest since April 2022.
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