The Small Business in Transportation Coalition's Oct. 20 petition (D.C. Circuit No. 26-1297) challenges FMCSA's Sept. 1 rule raising 2027 UCR fees an average of 20% — $46 to $55 for the smallest carriers — and alleges FMCSA hands truckers' Social Security numbers to the UCR system without consent. The court has not acted; the fees remain in effect.
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The LTL carrier's first outbound Canada service links Canadian shippers to about 40 U.S. metro markets with an all-truck linehaul — and its 5.9% general rate increase on the RDFS 501 and RDFS 1000 tariffs takes effect Nov. 2.
Range Zero Emissions CEO Johannes Ariens argues incentives are fixated on Class 7 and 8 while medium-duty trucks can charge overnight on power a small business already has — and that hydrogen and battery will split Class 8 between them.
Mexico's carriers call a Monday stoppage, the $8 billion diesel aid waits until after the election, Roadrunner opens Canada-to-U.S. LTL with a 5.9% increase coming, I-285 is closed all weekend in Atlanta, and a dealer argues for medium-duty electric first.
All lanes of I-285 are closed both directions between Cascade Road (exit 7) and SR 166/Langford Parkway (exit 5) from 7 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for the $206 million Westside Rebuild — after GDOT blamed trucks that ignored detours for last weekend's Smyrna gridlock.
Triumph Financial's transportation revenue grew nearly 38% in the third quarter as the factoring giant added more than 700 customers this year; its CEO says driver pay, diesel, insurance, equipment and financing costs are what keep squeezing carriers.
FreightWaves SONAR's new routing-guide data puts a hard number on tender rejection: loads that fall to a second carrier cost a median 22.02% more all-in, and third-tender loads cost 26.44% more.
Ryder System's stock jumped more than 10% after third-quarter earnings as executives said fleets are not rushing to buy ahead of the EPA 2027 rules, rental demand is climbing, and used-truck values keep rising.
The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendes loaded 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel at Primorsk, Russia, on Oct. 22 and is due in New York on Nov. 7 — the first identified U.S.-bound shipment under the Trump-Putin diesel deal, and at roughly 300,000 barrels, about 7% of one day's U.S. diesel consumption.
Refrigerated carrier Marten Transport earned $2.9 million in the third quarter — better than a year ago but light of Wall Street's estimate — as fuel, health insurance and driver-pay costs cut $3.7 million from net income, even with truckload revenue per loaded mile up 14% to $3.02; its shares fell 7% in midday trading Friday.
A seven-vehicle chain-reaction crash on Interstate 81 northbound in South Middleton Township killed one person, sent an unknown number of people to a hospital and closed the interstate between Exits 47 and 49 for nearly nine hours on Friday; Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Round Rock, Texas, man with homicide by vehicle. It was the second closure of I-81 in Cumberland County before 8 a.m. — a flammable-load tractor-trailer overturned near Exit 57 at 4:51 a.m.
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All-in: van $2.96 · reefer $3.59 · flatbed $3.55 a mile. Tender rejections at 14.21%.
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