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Swift, trucking boycott NYC after Zohran Mamdani's mayoral election? Get real
The claim that NYC's incoming mayor will quadruple costs for trucking companies doesn't hold up to minimal scrutiny. It's not the first time a proposed NYC boycott has fallen apart.
November 10, 2025
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DOT's Duffy killed the 'driver shortage' narrative -- and now ATA has buried it
DOT Secretary Sean Duffy addressed the driver shortage head on, and it wasn't pretty. Now, even ATA backs off claims about lacking a quantity of drivers, marking a complete victory for owner-operator and small trucking voices.
November 5, 2025
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October 9, 2025
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Foreign driver exodus clearing parking lots and boosting rates?
Brokers and truck parking lot owners say non-domiciled drivers are leaving in droves. What are you seeing?
October 9, 2025
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CHP busts 'unusual,' definitely 'NOT legal or safe!' metal pole truck tow
California Highway Patrol found one tractor towing another down the big road with nothing more than a metal pipe and chains connecting the two. Unable to appreciate art or finesse, CHP issued a citation.
October 3, 2025
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Ice Road Truckers' new season delivers the goods
A sneak peak at Episode 1 of Ice Road Truckers shows veteran drivers Todd Dewey and Lisa Kelly return to the saddle in a love letter to the trucking trade.
September 19, 2025
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Road Mode: The real cost of trucking done 'seriously' on home life, relationships
Overdrive reader Eric Schmidt is no steering wheel holder. No GPS, no ELD, just trucking done professionally. But in going "Road Mode" and succeeding at trucking, was he leaving life itself behind?
August 29, 2025
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Trucking's TikTok generation reports harassment, but they're here for the long haul
New survey results find Gen Z truckers heavily influenced by social media and feeling pressure to glamorize the job online.
June 13, 2025
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Roadcheck fails crossing the scales in 2025
From securement nightmares to air lines that breathe in all the wrong places and tires that once were but are no more, here's some of the worst inspection fails from Roadcheck 2025.
June 10, 2025
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Meeting an out-of-service, non-citizen driver who can't read English
A conversation with a foreign driver revealed his support for Trump's English language proficiency mandate as an instrument toward his own personal growth.
May 21, 2025
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Roadcheck Day One: Weird things afoot in Whately, Mass.
There are some beautiful things to see on the road, some real “stop and smell the flowers” moments you don’t get at home or online. This author missed out on the scale house in Mass. (closed for the day) but got a possible-overweight alert himself at the truck stop.
May 13, 2025
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FMCSA's new ID verificaton test-drive, live from the Mid-America Trucking Show
FMCSA hopes its new ID verification tool for owners registering with the agency will stop fraudsters from infiltrating the system but be a breeze for legitimate, verifiable entities. At MATS, we took this test-drive to kick the tires on the new system.
April 17, 2025
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Owner-ops' near miss with a train a wake-up call for regulators?
Veteran owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt were crossing an uneven, pockmarked, divided double rail crossing when the lights started flashing. Luckily, they're OK, but they offered this warning for others.
April 14, 2025
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Arkansas police testing English skills at roadside? Social media says yes, but ...
Despite a popular post on social media, both Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Highway Police, the latter under the umbrella of the state DOT, denied any English language testing or arrests.
March 25, 2025
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What truckers want DOGE to tackle
Overdrive asked and trucking's owner-operators answered. Between ELD/HOS issues, truck parking, temp/permanent status for foreign drivers, CDL training, DataQs, New Entrant audits and roadside inspections, what do you think most truckers prioritized?
March 20, 2025
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Trucking attorneys: Broker transparency needed to fight fraud
When Convoy went bankrupt, dozens of carriers got stiffed on millions of dollars. A few prominent transportation lawyers argue that broker transparency could end that kind of abuse.
March 13, 2025
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Iowa I-35, I-80 'impassable' as blizzard conditions grip state
Iowa State Patrol is telling motorists to turn back or risk being stranded as a blizzard shut down major interstates and at least a dozen other state highways.
March 5, 2025
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Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE want your help finding fraud at DOT
DOGE has yet to tear into trucking's regulators, really, but with plane crashes and a DEI scandal at the Federal Aviation Administration, is it time to think about what skeletons FMCSA might have in the closet?
February 20, 2025
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Cargo theft expert weighs in on $40,000 egg heist from trailer
Thieves stole 100,000 eggs from a trailer parked at a big distributor in Pennsylvania, and cargo theft expert Scott Cornell thinks it's likely an organized ring of criminals already had buyers lined up.
February 11, 2025
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FMCSA's non-domiciled CDL rule in limbo after court grants emergency stay motion
The D.C. appeals court weighed in on DOT's move to cancel CDLs for almost 200,000 non-domiciled drivers on Thursday, dealing FMCSA another blow. The court found no evidence of foreign drivers lacking safety.
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