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1 in 7 trucks parked for brakes: CVSA's Brake Safety Week puts 2,369 vehicles out of service, and the 15.3% failure rate barely moved from last year

CVSA released its 2026 Brake Safety Week results on Nov. 6: 15,528 brake inspections across North America during Aug. 23–29, with 2,369 vehicles placed out of service — 15.3% overall and 15.1% in the U.S. Half the parked trucks failed under the 20% defective brake rule, hoses and tubes were the biggest named category at 600 violations, and drum and rotor out-of-service orders rose from last year. Next year's week runs April 18–24, 2027.

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ATA's Costello: the freight market has turned — but it is a supply recovery, not a demand boom, and shipper spending is up 32% on flat shipments

American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello told his annual U.S. Bank update that capacity finally came down enough to meet demand, helped by the non-domiciled CDL, English-proficiency and training-school crackdowns that began in spring 2025. Shipments are roughly flat, but shippers paid 32% more in the third quarter — and in Texas, spending rose 37% while shipments fell 12.9%.

Equipment

No cab, no hitch, no driver: Humble Robotics raises $51 million to pilot its cabless electric hauler on port and warehouse runs under 250 miles

FreightWaves reports the Series A brings the San Francisco startup's total funding to $75 million, six months after a $24 million seed round. The Humble Hauler is a flat platform that carries 40-foot and 53-foot containers directly — 200-mile maximum range, 55 mph top speed, billed as 20% lighter than a tractor and trailer — and founder Eyal Cohen is aiming for customer pilots over the next 12 months, through August 2027.

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PS Logistics buys Roane Transportation: a 170-driver Tennessee flatbed and Conestoga fleet joins Loudon County Trucking

Commercial Carrier Journal reports Loudon County Trucking, a PS Logistics subsidiary, has acquired Roane Transportation Services, Roane Logistics and B&W Leasing — its parent's 33rd trucking acquisition since 2016. Roane, founded in 1996 in Rockwood, Tennessee, hauls aluminum, steel, electrical products and building materials across the Southeast and Midwest, and co-founder Steve Kennedy stays on to run the division.

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Up to 40 years for shooting a Prius with a toddler inside: former driver Christian Ramos is sentenced for the I-83 attack — and Pennsylvania charges still wait

CDLLife reports Ramos, 30, of Illinois, was sentenced Nov. 5 in Maryland for the June 18, 2025 shooting on southbound I-83, in which none of the Prius's three occupants, including a two-year-old, was injured. A jury convicted him in April 2026 of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder; troopers found a loaded .45-caliber handgun, several hundred rounds and spent casings in his truck, and he also faces four counts of attempted criminal homicide in York County, Pennsylvania.

Carrier watch

PS Logistics buys Roane Transportation: a 170-driver Tennessee flatbed and Conestoga fleet joins Loudon County Trucking

Commercial Carrier Journal reports Loudon County Trucking, a PS Logistics subsidiary, has acquired Roane Transportation Services, Roane Logistics and B&W Leasing — its parent's 33rd trucking acquisition since 2016. Roane, founded in 1996 in Rockwood, Tennessee, hauls aluminum, steel, electrical products and building materials across the Southeast and Midwest, and co-founder Steve Kennedy stays on to run the division.

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ATA says the recovery has turned on shrinking supply, a cabless electric hauler raises $51 million, PS Logistics buys a 170-driver flatbed fleet, the Brenham DPS attacker pleads to life without parole, and a fuel-card fraud indictment shows how a carrier's name can be spent in 23 states.

Fuel tech

A fake email, eight fuel cards and $760,320.19 in unpaid fuel across 23 states: two Atlanta men are indicted in a Detroit carrier's name

CDLLife reports Zachary Walker and Mario Bailey were indicted Sept. 23 on trafficking in an unauthorized access device, wire fraud and mail fraud charges, after a credit application in Voyager Express Inc.'s name won eight Coyne Oil & Propane fuel cards that were mailed to a rented Detroit apartment. Walker made his initial court appearance Nov. 3 and was freed on $10,000 unsecured bond; the next court date for both men is pending.

Enforcement

The Brenham DPS attack ends in a plea: Clenard Parker gets life without parole for driving a stolen rig through the office that denied his CDL renewal

CDLLife reports Parker pleaded guilty in Washington County in exchange for life in prison without the death penalty, waiving a jury trial. KWHI's account of the Nov. 4 hearing adds the full charge list — capital murder of multiple persons, injury to the elderly, and concurrent terms on assault and criminal mischief counts — 936 days of confinement credit, and the names of the two people killed: Bobby Huff of Giddings and Cheryl Turner of Brenham.

Weather and roads

Pagosa's Piedra River fix is now a four-week job: temporary bridge needs new abutments, Wolf Creek stays shut, and Highway 84 is the lifeline

CDOT Region 5 Director Julie Constan told the Pagosa Springs Town Council Tuesday night that a drilling team is checking the river banks for concrete abutments and the temporary bridge is likely a four-week process. U.S. 160 is open from town as far as the bridge with single-lane stretches, Highway 84 south is stabilized, CO 151 may get one lane by the weekend, and the downtown reconstruction will not finish in 2026.

Regulations

Ohio will downgrade every remaining non-domiciled CDL — about 3,000 of them — while a court case could reopen California's program

Ohio's BMV has already downgraded about 2,000 of 5,000 reviewed credentials and will mail 30-day downgrade letters to the rest, OTR News reports. Louisiana and Colorado have also ended their programs, seven-plus states have resumed issuing under the new rule, and Overdrive reports the D.C. Circuit could rule any day on California's bid to vacate FMCSA's noncompliance findings.

Equipment

Kodiak's first Gen7 Western Star day cabs go driverless in the Permian — and a 75-truck fleet deal queues up behind them

Commercial Carrier Journal reports the first two Western Star 49X trucks with Kodiak's Gen7 system are in commercial service at Atlas Energy Solutions, the first of 65 Western Stars inside a 100-truck order due by mid-2027. TruckingInfo adds DTL Transport's binding 75-truck driver-as-a-service deal and a safety case Kodiak puts at 99% ahead of a driverless Dallas–Houston IKEA launch.

Enforcement

DOT says 33,000 drivers are now out of service for English proficiency as Operation Highway Shield adds Arkansas and Virginia results

FreightWaves reports DOT's Nov. 4 totals: 33,000 drivers placed out of service for English-language proficiency, 31,000 CDLs revoked and nearly 10,000 schools shut down. Arkansas inspectors ran 1,724 inspections in 48 hours and parked 393 drivers and vehicles; a smaller Virginia operation in Stephens City wrote 100 violations on 86 Level I inspections.

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