Illustration: flatbed semi trucks loaded with plywood and building-material crates queued at a Canada-United States border port of entry, with customs booths and Canadian and U.S. flags in the foreground

Regulations

Canada's 50% tariff list swapped at midnight Oct. 30 — 100 classifications added, 22 removed — and the entry date now decides what a cross-border load costs

Proclamation 11076, published in the Federal Register on Oct. 30, took plywood, packaging and refrigeration equipment off the Section 338 list and put lubricants, flooring, paints, valves and carpets on it. The duty stacks on top of Section 232 tariffs, applies regardless of USMCA status, and is set by when a load is entered — not when it was loaded.

RegulationsUpdated Saturday, October 31, 2026

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Ohio will downgrade all 5,000 reviewed non-domiciled CDLs — 2,000 already done — as Louisiana and Wyoming confirm they will never resume issuing

Ohio BMV Registrar Charlie Norman announced Oct. 23 the state is ending non-domiciled CDL issuance; affected drivers get a letter, a 30-day clock and a hearing right. Louisiana stopped Oct. 2, 2025 and says it is not going to resume; Wyoming stopped in September 2025 and does not plan to restart.

Fuel & rates

Covenant's CEO expects double-digit truckload rate hikes again in 2027 — and says ELD enforcement will keep pulling capacity out

David Parker told analysts Friday that carriers have to keep raising rates against driver pay, equipment and insurance inflation; SONAR's reset index already shows recently renewed contracts paying about 12.8% more than the rates they replaced, up from 4.1% a year ago.

Autonomy

Aurora cuts its 2026 revenue forecast to about $9 million after a six-week truck-building delay — and still promises 1,000+ driverless trucks by the end of 2027

Third-quarter revenue was $3 million against a $257 million operating loss as material shortages and quality problems at Roush pushed the 20-trucks-a-week milestone from October to early December. The company says 200 trucks by the end of February and more than 1,000 by the end of 2027 still hold.

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NewsletterOct 31, 2026

The Morning Mile — Saturday, Oct. 31

Ohio moves to downgrade 5,000 non-domiciled CDLs, contract rates are set to jump again in 2027, FMCSA talks hours-of-service flexibility, and Georgia opens a $134 million inland port.

InfrastructureOct 31, 2026

Georgia opens its $134 million Gainesville Inland Port — built to move 26,000 containers a year off Atlanta highways and onto rail

The terminal, opened Oct. 29 by Gov. Brian Kemp and the Georgia Ports Authority, handles up to 200,000 containers a year with truck access from I-85 and I-985. Shippers can choose rail for heavier, cheaper moves or truck-only for speed — GPA expects 26,000 containers to shift to rail in year one.

RegulationsOct 31, 2026

FMCSA safety chief promises more hours-of-service flexibility and a comment-first SMS rewrite — and admits Motus is still keeping thousands out of the industry

Steve Dowling told the WEX OTR Summit on Oct. 28 that about 95% of carrier registration is in place in Motus but the remaining 5% is 'not acceptable.' The agency revised four hours-of-service provisions in June, its two flexibility pilots take comments through Dec. 7, and SMS changes will be proposed for industry comment before they land.

AutonomyOct 31, 2026

Aurora cuts its 2026 revenue forecast to about $9 million after a six-week truck-building delay — and still promises 1,000+ driverless trucks by the end of 2027

Carrier watchOct 30, 2026

Super Ego is back — and as of Nov. 1 it won't lease to non-domiciled drivers, ELP violators or Conditional-rated carriers

The Elmhurst, Illinois leasing company at the center of the chameleon-carrier scandal announced new safety and eligibility requirements effective Nov. 1 for every new lease, renewal and added unit: a current FMCSA safety rating on file, no Conditional ratings, no unresolved English-proficiency violations, and no non-domiciled CDLs for owner-operators or carrier owners. Overdrive visited its lot Wednesday and found it largely empty — the company says it still serves more than 1,200 carrier customers.

Fuel & ratesOct 30, 2026

Spot rates slipped $0.023 this week — reefer broke a four-year seasonal pattern — but every segment is still up more than 40% on the year

FleetOwner's weekly roundup of FTR and DAT figures puts total spot rates down for a third soft week, with reefer rates falling almost $0.06 in a week they have risen for four straight years. DAT linehaul averages: dry van $2.24 per mile, reefer $2.73, flatbed $2.63 — against year-over-year gains of 41% to over 48%.

InfrastructureOct 30, 2026

Long Beach set its own container record in September — and rail, not the gate, is where San Pedro Bay backed up

The Port of Long Beach set an all-time record in September at 997,177 TEUs, up 25%, and Los Angeles posted 1,042,652 TEUs as national imports hit a September record of 2,546,261 TEUs. Truck dwell stayed fluid at 3.18 days while rail dwell hit 7.19 days, pushing boxes onto trucks and tightening Southern California's long-haul lanes.

EquipmentOct 30, 2026

NHTSA starts the first major tire-standard overhaul in more than 20 years — and the bias-era tests may not survive it

A negotiated rulemaking announced Oct. 26 puts the plunger-energy strength test, the bead unseating test and the endurance test on the table, along with non-pneumatic tires and sidewall markings. Secretary Sean Duffy will appoint an 18-member committee for a single two-year term; ATA's maintenance council calls the legacy tests 'vestigial' for modern steel-belted radials.

RegulationsOct 30, 2026

Motus reclassified a flatbed carrier as a hazmat hauler and suspended it — and roughly 6,475 carriers got the same insurance-change suspension this week

Dynamic MD of Carol Stream, Illinois learned Tuesday that FMCSA's Motus system had reclassified it from general freight to hazardous materials, raising its insurance minimum to $1 million against the $750,000 on file and suspending it without notice. A Central Analysis Bureau and CCJ analysis found more than 6,475 carriers hit by the same kind of change, roughly 6,000 of them this week.

Law & safetyOct 29, 2026

Werner's Leathers: capacity cuts are in the 'early innings' — about 15% of trucks still out of alignment, only 3% to 4% gone

Werner Enterprises Chairman and CEO Derek Leathers told analysts Tuesday that enforcement-driven capacity reductions have barely begun, with driver-application rejection rates up 170% since January and driving-school enrollment down 20% to 30%. Werner's third-quarter revenue rose 23% to $950.5 million and it swung to a $6.6 million profit — while spending heavily to hire drivers into the tightening market.

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Canada's 50% tariff list swapped at midnight Oct. 30 — 100 classifications added, 22 removed — and the entry date now decides what a cross-border load costs

Ohio will downgrade all 5,000 reviewed non-domiciled CDLs — 2,000 already done — as Louisiana and Wyoming confirm they will never resume issuing

Covenant's CEO expects double-digit truckload rate hikes again in 2027 — and says ELD enforcement will keep pulling capacity out

Aurora cuts its 2026 revenue forecast to about $9 million after a six-week truck-building delay — and still promises 1,000+ driverless trucks by the end of 2027

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The Morning Mile — Saturday, Oct. 31

Georgia opens its $134 million Gainesville Inland Port — built to move 26,000 containers a year off Atlanta highways and onto rail

FMCSA safety chief promises more hours-of-service flexibility and a comment-first SMS rewrite — and admits Motus is still keeping thousands out of the industry

Aurora cuts its 2026 revenue forecast to about $9 million after a six-week truck-building delay — and still promises 1,000+ driverless trucks by the end of 2027

Super Ego is back — and as of Nov. 1 it won't lease to non-domiciled drivers, ELP violators or Conditional-rated carriers

Spot rates slipped $0.023 this week — reefer broke a four-year seasonal pattern — but every segment is still up more than 40% on the year

Long Beach set its own container record in September — and rail, not the gate, is where San Pedro Bay backed up

NHTSA starts the first major tire-standard overhaul in more than 20 years — and the bias-era tests may not survive it

Motus reclassified a flatbed carrier as a hazmat hauler and suspended it — and roughly 6,475 carriers got the same insurance-change suspension this week

Werner's Leathers: capacity cuts are in the 'early innings' — about 15% of trucks still out of alignment, only 3% to 4% gone

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