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Road conditions

I-80 westbound closed to semis over Donner Summit — and a new Sierra advisory runs Sunday into Monday

Caltrans' Saturday-afternoon report closes westbound Interstate 80 to all tractor-semitrailer combinations from the Nevada line to west of Kingvale, a day after spinouts shut the pass in both directions — and the Weather Service's new advisory covers the same passes from 4 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday, with a stronger storm behind it midweek.

Road conditionsUpdated Saturday, November 14, 2026
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FMCSA pulls 133 ELDs in the largest revocation in its history — and its own release gives carriers two different deadlines

The Nov. 12 sweep removes 121 agency-revoked devices and 12 voluntary self-revocations, after forensic investigations found support lines that wiped driving time, fake logs uploaded during a roadside inspection and records showing 130 miles per hour. But the announcement tells carriers they have up to 60 days to replace a revoked device — and tells inspectors to cite drivers and place them out of service on or after Nov. 24, 12 days later.

Recruiting

Half of drivers are still looking — and home time, not the mileage rate, is what they want most

Conversion Interactive Agency and People. Data. Analytics' Fall 2026 Truck Driver Survey finds 51.2% of drivers currently looking for a job and 55% recruited at least once a week. Among job seekers, 69.1% want improved home time and 65.1% want predictable or higher pay, 60.2% would take a local job at slightly lower pay to be home more — and 44.3% have considered leaving trucking for a skilled trade.

Fuel & rates

Analysts' third-quarter verdict: a supply-driven recovery, with about 70,000 drivers taken out of a pool of a million and a half

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.

Technology

Ransomware gang Whitearmor hit J.B. Hunt, Ryder and Echo in late October, employee lawsuits say, with claimed demands of $5 million, $20 million and $10 million

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.

Border

Trump threatens to immediately double tariffs on Mexico over migrant caravans

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.

Weather and roads

Sierra warnings are up — up to 24 inches and 90 mph ridge gusts Friday into Saturday — as the season's first widespread Northeast snow and a Rockies storm join the map

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.

Carrier watch

One-to-six-truck fleets are down to about 362,000 tractors from a 398,000 peak — and most of those trucks never left the road

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.

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