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5 days ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
Every year thousands of trucks are pulled off the road during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week by inspectors across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, who in 2023 conducted 18,875 inspections. Of those, 2,375 trucks or 12.6%, were placed out of service for brake-related violations. This year’s spotlight is sharper than ever, especially if you have rotors cracking under heat stress, pigtails dragging across your catwalk or drums coated in grime.
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1 week ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
In the trucking industry, fraud and cargo theft are full-blown crises. Maybe this isn’t Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese-level organized crime, but make no mistake, organized crime exploits vulnerabilities in our supply chains and it’s impacting everyone from small carriers to global shippers.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Rob Carpenter
In the trucking industry, fraud and cargo theft are full-blown crises. Maybe this isn’t Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese-level organized crime, but make no mistake, organized crime exploits vulnerabilities in our supply chains and it’s impacting everyone from small carriers to global shippers.
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1 week ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration pulled the pin and lobbed an 18-rule proposal grenade into the trucking world: two final and the rest open for public comment. If you’ve only skimmed headlines, you’re missing what matters: what changed, why it matters and what drivers, fleets, brokers and compliance managers need to do about it.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Rob Carpenter
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration pulled the pin and lobbed an 18-rule proposal grenade into the trucking world: two final and the rest open for public comment. If you’ve only skimmed headlines, you’re missing what matters: what changed, why it matters and what drivers, fleets, brokers and compliance managers need to do about it.
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1 week ago | 
gomotive.com | Rob Carpenter
For commercial fleets, safety is often a means to an end. Behind the dashboards and compliance charts, the real motivators are risk, reputation, ratings, and revenue. Safety sounds like a noble goal, and it is, but in the boardrooms of transportation companies, fleets invest in AI dash cams and driver safety scores not because it “feels right,” but because risk, cost, and survival demand it.
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1 week ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
Let’s set the record straight: There is no widespread truck driver shortage in 2025. There. I said it. If you’ve been anywhere near the supply chain over the past four years, you know exactly why that sentence deserves to be said. Again. Louder. Yet here we are. This week, a headline on The Street screamed that a “new DOT rule could worsen the trucker shortage and cause delivery delays.” The source behind that? Not the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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1 week ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
Understanding Recap Hours and Split Sleeper Rules: What Fleets and Drivers Need to KnowCompliance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules is how drivers keep their schedules legal, fleets avoid violations and everyone stays safe fighting the fatigue epidemic. After all, HOS violations are double-weighted. Recap hours and split sleeper berth exemptions are two of the most underutilized tools in a driver’s logbook.
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1 week ago | 
freightwaves.com | Rob Carpenter
What’s a tender rejection rate? Few indicators are as telling in the dance of freight logistics as the tender rejection rate. This metric, often underappreciated outside logistics circles, offers a window into the balance of supply and demand, signaling shifts in market dynamics before they fully materialize. Tender rejections occur when carriers decline loads offered under contract by shippers.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Rob Carpenter
Understanding Recap Hours and Split Sleeper Rules: What Fleets and Drivers Need to KnowCompliance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules is how drivers keep their schedules legal, fleets avoid violations and everyone stays safe fighting the fatigue epidemic. After all, HOS violations are double-weighted. Recap hours and split sleeper berth exemptions are two of the most underutilized tools in a driver’s logbook.
