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 »
The freight industry will have lost $1040 by the time you’ve finished reading this sentence… all because of new freight scams. Criminals have turned freight theft into a global enterprise. Freight theft is beginning to shadow entire industries, costing $6.6 billion per year in losses, with freight fraud up 1,500% since 2021. As bad actors… Read more »
On the road or in your wallet, cutting corners with 295/75R22 5 steer tires is a bad idea. If you’re a cross-country long-hauler, the question of “what are the best steer tires for 295 75R22 5” isn’t only about deal-hunting, but a very real need to discover the steer tires with the best longevity, fuel… Read more »
