A unanimous three-judge panel of the Second Circuit ruled Friday that FMCSA acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it withheld $73,502,543 in highway money after New York refused to revoke about 32,600 non-domiciled licenses — because the expiration-matching requirement the agency enforced was not in the regulation's text.
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FMCSA pulls 133 ELDs with two conflicting deadlines in its own release, drivers rank home time over pay in a new survey, analysts size the driver exit at about 70,000, and Nevoya and Meta add an electric corridor on Interstate 10 — here's Friday's briefing.
The multi-year agreement deploys 25 battery-electric trucks between San Bernardino and Phoenix, builds corridor charging that other operators can use, and has Meta buying the service's environmental attribute certificates rather than the freight itself — its second Nevoya corridor, after backing a 63-truck Houston-Dallas deployment.
Transport Topics' post-earnings review finds rates strengthened in the third quarter on capacity constraints and rising costs despite soft consumer demand. Stephens calls it a supply-side recovery and expects contract rates to keep rising with driver pay; Bank of America puts the enforcement-driven driver exit at somewhere around 70,000; Baird credits DOT enforcement and post-Montgomery broker scrutiny — while spot rates sit below their summer peaks.
A cybercriminal group that appeared in October has drawn employee class-action suits against J.B. Hunt, Ryder System and Echo Global Logistics. The attackers claim 140,838 J.B. Hunt employee records and, at Echo, data on 2,418 customers and 9,122 carriers — claims repeated in the lawsuits, not confirmed — and no operational disruption has been reported at any of the three companies.
The president's Thursday Truth Social post names no tariff line, no exemption and no effective date — but the rates now on Mexican goods run from 25% on most non-USMCA imports and Mexican-made autos to 50% on steel and aluminum, on a trade lane that moved $96.34 billion in September, $38.9 billion of it through Laredo.
Winter storm warnings have replaced the watches for the Sierra Nevada, with up to 12 inches above 6,000 feet on Interstate 80 and Highway 50 and as much as 24 inches on the highest peaks. The Weather Prediction Center's Nov. 12 discussion adds the first widespread accumulating snowfall of the season for the Northeast's high elevations, a Huron Mountains chance of more than 12 inches, and a new northern and central Rockies storm for Friday night into Saturday.
FreightWaves' analysis of the Nov. 9 FMCSA census snapshot finds the smallest carrier tier has shed roughly 36,000 tractors since 2023, squeezed by a record $2.336-a-mile cost base and diesel at roughly $1 a mile with no fuel surcharge to recover it. The equipment is consolidating into 20-to-100-truck fleets through lease-ons and used-truck sales, not parking.
NHTSA's early estimates put the first-half fatality rate at 1.02 deaths per 100 million miles, the second-lowest first-half rate ever recorded, on travel up 0.8%. But first-quarter deaths fell 5.0% while second-quarter deaths fell just 0.2%, with May and June rising — and the estimates do not yet separate out crashes involving large trucks.
The Weather Prediction Center's Nov. 11 discussion puts a multi-day winter pattern on the map: lake-effect snow off the Great Lakes starting Wednesday night, upslope snow in the central Appalachians Thursday into Saturday, and a wet, heavy Sierra Nevada storm Friday into Saturday.
Federal prosecutors say VMS Transport LLC owner Armando Martinez Varela recruited B-1 visa drivers to haul domestic freight out of Laredo across the United States, paying $0.25 to $0.50 a mile against $0.70 a mile for authorized drivers and allegedly saving the company about $299,606 in labor costs.
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