When people describe El Niño, it’s almost in mythical terms: a force bringing severe weather for months at a time. And… they’re partially right. El Niño is the cyclical warming of the Pacific Ocean that changes global weather patterns. It recurs every 2–7 years, often intensifying in the wintertime. Meteorologists are projecting a 90% chance… Read more »
Steve Fowler, an owner of a fleet of 35 trucks out of Virginia, doesn’t know how to save on diesel. In February of 2026, Steve could barely manage his $97,000 diesel bill. Then the Iran war hit. By the end of March, Steve’s diesel costs totaled $147,000, a $50,000 swing in a single month with… Read more »
Kevin Kimmel had a shaky feeling. As he busily scratched away at paperwork, he kept looking out the window of his truck at an RV. The longer he looked, the stranger it seemed. Black curtains. Old. Not very family-friendly. Suddenly, a man appeared in his periphery. Kevin watched as the man approached the RV, his… Read more »
Ralph put the phone down and massaged his temples. He didn’t want to fire his new driver, Andy. He had to come to like him. But after Andy left his truck unattended at a rest stop, Ralph had to let him go. As Ralph sorted through the termination paperwork, another phone call startled him. The… Read more »
Imagine: You’re driving down a highway, forest trees whipping past you, when something hits your windshield. Then again. Then again, and again, dozens of more times. As a blur of yellow streaks across your windshield, you realize it isn’t a hailstorm. It’s a bee storm. In a truly buzzworthy accident, an overturned semi-truck released 14… Read more »
When a baby-blue Freightliner pulled into an agricultural inspection station in Pensacola, Florida, the attending officers immediately sounded alarm bells for fuel scams. Earlier, a ‘be-on-the-lookout’ report was issued for a similar truck that was likely tied to a fuel theft ring operating across Florida. As K9 units scoured the airspace, a failed sniff-test confirmed… Read more »
The largest inspection program in the world is nearly here: the CVSA Roadcheck 2026. On Tuesday, May 12, through Thursday, May 14, the 2026 CVSA Roadcheck will conduct 15 inspections per minute for hundreds of thousands of carriers. This year, the CVSA is placing special emphasis on ELD tampering, falsification & manipulation, as well as… Read more »
On March 1, 2026, a semi-truck driver lost control, smashed into a guardrail, and perilously sent his truck tumbling down a Missouri ravine. After finally crashing into a creek bed feeding into the Gasconade River, the driver was shaken but miraculously unharmed. The 40,000-pound crashed load of tofu he was hauling, on the other hand,… Read more »
A recent expose on chameleon carriers, featured in 60 Minutes, told a remarkable story: carrier network giant Super Ego was singlehandedly responsible for over 15,000 safety violations and 500 crashes, all in two years! To the average trucker, this might seem impossible: How on earth would the FMCSA not shut down such a dangerous carrier?… Read more »
In the dark of night, at a storage yard outside Houston, a small crew urgently made their way down a row of twenty semi-trucks. One by one, each truck had its wheels removed with surgical precision. After leaving the trucks suspended on wooden blocks, the crew made off with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth… Read more »
