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Roadcheck spurs spot rates to new highs
A massive week for reefer rates brought them nearly even with flatbed rates, while dry van rates were at their highest since early 2022. Diesel prices, meanwhile, were mostly flat during the week, falling by about a nickel nationwide.
May 19, 2026
Roadcheck Rates
Electronic Logging Devices
Oregon DOT puts 283 ELD cheats out-of-service
Oregon DOT says it developed training methods to catch a new breed of ELD cheats that fabricates entire weeks' worth of logs. Overdrive reporting has linked a couple big fleets to such behavior.
May 19, 2026
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Regulations
Highway bill first draft extends place-of-biz regs to brokers, tackles parking, chameleons, ELD certification
The House transportation committee released draft text of a highway bill with a bevy of trucking-related provisions.
May 18, 2026
Trucks On Highway
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business
An Overdrive 2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.
May 18, 2026
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Business
Last call! Weigh in on broker vetting and transparency, fraud, bond claims
ICYMI: Take Overdrive's survey on freight fraud, broker credit checks and other vetting. Middlemen's own reliance on “carrier vetting” systems is sure to grow with the recent SCOTUS broker-accountability ruling -- the survey also digs in on such systems, nonpayment, bond claims, "chameleons" and transparency.
May 15, 2026
Hacker Gloves On Keyboard Id Fraud Trucker Reading Phone
Regulations
Truckers' DataQs to-do: Timely, thorough filings for the win
If you came out of Roadcheck (any roadside inspection, really) with a violation you don't agree with, you'll need more than just opinion to bring an effective challenge via the DataQs review system. Here, find state inspectors' best advice on collecting and presenting evidence to correct the record.
May 14, 2026
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Electronic Logging Devices
Roadcheck: Inspectors 'behind the curve' on new breed of ELD cheats
After hearing about some cutting-edge techniques to catch bad actors using overseas ELD hacking services, inspectors in New Hampshire gave a reality check.
May 14, 2026
New Hampshire State Police Lieutenant Thomas Conlon provided a guide through Roadcheck Wednesday in the Northeast.
Business
SCOTUS shocker: High court says brokers are accountable for hiring unsafe carriers
The ruling marks a far different outcome that what many legal experts had predicted.
May 14, 2026
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Regulations
FMCSA revoked 28,000 CDLs: Where's the rates bump?
Did 28,000 revoked CDLs and 20,000 drivers put out-of-service for ELP impact the market? Rates have hit all-time highs recently, and it does look like a Trump administration initiative caused it.
May 12, 2026
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Business
Roadcheck rates are in with spot market on record run
How's $8-plus/mile booked Monday sound? Numbers from the last week ahead of Roadcheck showed spot rates in the Truckstop.com system hit another record high with flatbed rates nearing their own all-time mark. Diesel prices, meanwhile, were flat nationally during the same week.
May 12, 2026
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Overdrive Radio
FMCSA registration to go dark: How truckers can prep for Motus
May 14, at roughly 8 p.m. Eastern, is the deadline to take these steps to set your trucking business up to easily claim your new account in Motus when it launches next week. The new system will aim combat the FMCSA's "front door problem" to prevent bad actors' access.
May 11, 2026
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Business
Trump wants to drop the federal fuel tax. How could it impact trucking?
The White House and members of Congress say they'll move to cut taxes from fuel prices as the war in Iran makes diesel costs soar to unheard-of heights.
May 11, 2026
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Regulations
Roadcheck preview? Inspectors park 15 trucks, 10 drivers
A four-hour effort targeting Port of Entry dodgers, among others, along I-80 at the Wyo.-Utah border found 153 violations from 34 inspections. Also: Arizona sheriff warns of potential cargo theft ring along I-40; New York State Thruway changes hours at certain welcome centers.
May 8, 2026
Whp Inspection
Regulations
C.H. Robinson gave thousands of loads to double-brokering chameleon carrier: Court docs
A carrier says C.H. Robinson staff told him to create new entities as FMCSA shut down his fleets, and he double brokered and hauled thousands of loads for the broker. After a deadly crash, the carrier's deposition contains disturbing allegations.
May 7, 2026
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Business
Spot rates hit all-time high as diesel cost surges again
Spot market rates reflected fuel's increase, hitting another record high during the week ending May 1.
May 6, 2026
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Regulations
FMCSA's non-domiciled CDL ban scores major victory in clash with non-citizen drivers
Courts won't block FMCSA's ongoing purge of nearly 200,000 non-domiciled CDL holders after overhauling its legal arguments about safety impacts.
May 6, 2026
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Truckers still torn: Truck Parking Club's huge growth with pay-to-park
The TPC company's arguably done more to add parking capacity than any private entity, in just a few years. A small fleet owner finds utility in a monthly reservation, while an owner-op criticizes TPC's intrusion on "free" spaces at truck stops. How many? Numbers might surprise you.
May 5, 2026
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Overdrive Radio
Roadcheck 2026: Toughest states for HOS violations
With CVSA's annual Roadcheck upcoming May 12-14, take a look at rankings for the toughest HOS-enforcement states, and ways owner-ops might prepare for inspectors' focus on ELD tampering, false logs.
May 4, 2026
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