The Energy Information Administration's weekly benchmark, released Oct. 27, rose for a second straight week — up $0.076 to $6.352 a gallon for Oct. 26 — with the Midwest up $0.128, the Rocky Mountain average at an all-time high of $6.521, and the West Coast easing, California down $0.087 to $8.155.
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Tenstreet's new CarrierProtect lets brokers vet how a carrier hires, trains and documents its response to unsafe driving — and whether its Driver Qualification Files are actually current — with a time-stamped record of the selection decision, a direct response to the Supreme Court's Montgomery decision letting negligent-hiring claims against brokers proceed.
Output fell to about 160,000 tons a day in the first half of October, then began climbing after mid-month export quotas under the U.S. supply deal; with domestic use near 140,000 tons a day, at least 40,000 tons a day is available for export — but Standard Chartered warns drone-damaged refineries cap the ramp, and barrels for the U.S. come out of other customers' supply.
Roehl Transport's new incentive for experienced CDL-A drivers joining from Nov. 2 through the week of Dec. 14 pays out in mileage installments — $500 after the first load and $500 every 10,000 miles, up to $10,000 — on top of two driver pay increases the carrier says it already delivered in 2026.
FMCSA still has no date for fixing Motus, Pilot and Tesla open their first truck charging sites, Roehl pays $10,000 for staying, brokers get a deeper look inside carriers, Russian refiners ramp diesel output, and New Mexico weighs autonomous-truck guardrails.
At an Oct. 23 interim committee hearing, public safety advocates and a Teamsters business agent who drove with driver-assist systems in Alaska urged New Mexico to add permit and authorization requirements like the six states that already have them; legislators from both parties said guardrails are needed before the state becomes a testing ground.
Under NHTSA campaign 26V677, certain 2025-2026 Volvo VNL (4) trucks may have loose or missing cab structural bolts, which could leave the cab unable to protect an occupant properly in a crash; dealers will inspect and install or tighten the bolts free of charge, with owner letters expected Dec. 14 and VINs already searchable.
Bow police say Edgar Ramirez, 33, of Odessa, Texas, was arrested Oct. 23 after officers found approximately 170 beer bottles in his semi's cab at a school bus lot — hours after the department had already been searching for the same truck over a report of an intoxicated driver leaving a truck stop. He faces a subsequent-offense DWI charge and arraignment today in Concord.
As the indefinite national stoppage called for Monday begins, Segob says the majority of transport organizations accepted dialogue and calls CANACAR's refusal to sit down 'inexplicable' — while more than 5,000 trucks in Coahuila's Región Centro and 120 transporters in Sonora line up behind the call, and Tlaxcala plans a one-lane mobilization from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Snow is forecast across parts of seven Rockies and Plains states through Monday night, with several inches possible in the Black Hills and mostly slush at lower elevations; whatever slush survives Monday night can freeze into hard ruts Tuesday, when a National Weather Service high wind watch puts gusts to 60 mph across parts of Wyoming, aimed squarely at high-profile vehicles.
SONAR's Contract Rate Change Direction index stood at 13.11% on Oct. 22, up from 3.53% a year earlier — and unlike the 2025 resets, the invoiced contract rate index now suggests the higher rates are holding.
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