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FMCSA has removed more than 10,000 training providers since December — and kept nearly 600 ELDs off the market entirely

Chief Safety Officer Steve Dowling told the WEX OTR Summit on Wednesday that the Training Provider Registry cleanup is separate from August's action against about 110 schools, that Motus is running at about 95% with the biennial update still suspended, and that chameleon-carrier cases built with the Justice Department and FBI are coming.

RegulationsUpdated Wednesday, October 28, 2026

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Autonomy

A California produce carrier just signed to run 75 driverless trucks it owns itself — a first for interstate trucking

Kodiak AI and Fresno-based DTL Transport announced Wednesday what Kodiak calls the first publicly announced definitive Driver-as-a-Service agreement by an interstate carrier: 75 DTL-owned trucks running the Kodiak Driver for a per-mile fee, on I-10 between Dallas and El Paso and I-20 between Dallas and Atlanta. No start date was announced.

Recalls

Two Paccar recalls in one day: nearly 27,000 Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks over a Cummins fuel hose, plus 310 new sleepers over bunk restraints

The fuel hose recall covers Kenworth T270 through T480 and Peterbilt 536 through 567 models with Cummins L9 engines — the tell is the smell of diesel or a low fuel pressure warning — with owner letters expected Dec. 20. The bunk restraint recall covers about 310 model-year 2027 sleepers, with letters expected Dec. 13.

Border

Mexico truckers reach a deal for talks after the strike disrupted 19 states — but no one has confirmed the protests are over

A day after nationwide demonstrations disrupted highways across Mexico, trucking organizations and the Interior Ministry agreed Tuesday to four high-level negotiating sessions on security, infrastructure, taxes and regulations. The groups had not confirmed that every demonstration had ended.

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RegulationsOct 28, 2026

PAM Transport wants to be the eighth carrier with a learner's-permit exemption — comments are open through Nov. 27

A Federal Register notice published Tuesday says PAM Transport is asking FMCSA to let its commercial learner's permit holders who have already passed the CDL skills test drive without a CDL holder in the front seat on the revenue trip home to pick up their license. Between 500 and 700 permit holders a year would drive under it.

NewsletterOct 28, 2026

The Morning Mile — Wednesday, Oct. 28

Mexico's truckers agree to talks after a 19-state strike, Knight-Swift cuts its carrier pool by about 70%, PAM Transport seeks a learner's-permit exemption, Arkansas runs a 48-hour Highway Shield blitz, a Netflix guilty plea in Minnesota, new I-81 charges detail, and a Ford recall over wandering gauges.

EnforcementOct 28, 2026

Driver pleads guilty in the I-35 construction-zone deaths: the cab camera showed Netflix as he reached slow traffic at 68 mph

Billie Joe Grimes, 57, switched his plea to guilty on Monday to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of criminal vehicular operation for the August 2023 crash south of Faribault, Minnesota. Investigators said a driver-facing camera showed him watching a Netflix show as he approached stopped traffic he never braked for. Sentencing is March 17, 2027.

BorderOct 28, 2026

Mexico truckers reach a deal for talks after the strike disrupted 19 states — but no one has confirmed the protests are over

Law & safetyOct 28, 2026

Knight-Swift cut its approved carrier pool by about 70% — and its CEO says the CDL crackdown could make the recovery last

CEO Adam Miller told the WEX OTR Summit on Tuesday that Knight-Swift requires a year of operating history before a carrier can haul its brokered freight, and that broker liability after Montgomery, organized cargo theft and stricter CDL enforcement are shrinking the pool of carriers brokers will touch.

EnforcementOct 28, 2026

New charges detail in the fatal I-81 pileup: driver admits he hid a narcolepsy diagnosis to keep his CDL, troopers say

CDLLife reported Tuesday, citing ABC 27, that the 43-year-old driver charged in Friday's seven-vehicle I-81 crash admitted speeding 65 to 70 mph in a 55 mph zone and lying about a narcolepsy diagnosis to keep his CDL. Troopers also found the truck's inspection expired in August and a phone mount partly blocking the windshield. He is held on $150,000 bail, with a hearing Nov. 4.

RecallsOct 28, 2026

Radar warning lights get a second comment round, a fuel fleet wants pulsing brake lights — and Ford recalls 102,000 pickups over wandering gauges

Overdrive's Oct. 27 briefs: FMCSA reopened comments through Nov. 19 on Grote's radar-activated rear-end collision warning lamps; R.B. Stewart Petroleum's Intellistop pulsing-light request takes comments through Nov. 25; and Ford is recalling more than 102,000 pickups, mostly Super Duty models, because analog speedometers and tachometers can stick or move erratically.

EnforcementOct 28, 2026

Arkansas Highway Shield blitz runs through 6 a.m. Thursday: unqualified drivers, unsafe trucks and fraud are the targets

The Arkansas Highway Police operation began at 6 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27 and runs through 6 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, with local, state and federal partners. It is part of Operation Highway Shield, an ongoing multi-agency effort aimed at unqualified commercial drivers and criminal activity in trucking.

TechnologyOct 27, 2026

Brokers are getting a look inside carrier operations: Tenstreet launches CarrierProtect vetting after Montgomery

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.

DieselOct 27, 2026

Russian refiners are raising diesel output toward 180,000 tons a day to feed the Trump deal — analysts doubt it moves the price

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.

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FMCSA has removed more than 10,000 training providers since December — and kept nearly 600 ELDs off the market entirely

A California produce carrier just signed to run 75 driverless trucks it owns itself — a first for interstate trucking

Two Paccar recalls in one day: nearly 27,000 Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks over a Cummins fuel hose, plus 310 new sleepers over bunk restraints

Mexico truckers reach a deal for talks after the strike disrupted 19 states — but no one has confirmed the protests are over

Latest news

PAM Transport wants to be the eighth carrier with a learner's-permit exemption — comments are open through Nov. 27

The Morning Mile — Wednesday, Oct. 28

Driver pleads guilty in the I-35 construction-zone deaths: the cab camera showed Netflix as he reached slow traffic at 68 mph

Mexico truckers reach a deal for talks after the strike disrupted 19 states — but no one has confirmed the protests are over

Knight-Swift cut its approved carrier pool by about 70% — and its CEO says the CDL crackdown could make the recovery last

New charges detail in the fatal I-81 pileup: driver admits he hid a narcolepsy diagnosis to keep his CDL, troopers say

Radar warning lights get a second comment round, a fuel fleet wants pulsing brake lights — and Ford recalls 102,000 pickups over wandering gauges

Arkansas Highway Shield blitz runs through 6 a.m. Thursday: unqualified drivers, unsafe trucks and fraud are the targets

Brokers are getting a look inside carrier operations: Tenstreet launches CarrierProtect vetting after Montgomery

Russian refiners are raising diesel output toward 180,000 tons a day to feed the Trump deal — analysts doubt it moves the price

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