California Opened the Door to Robot Semis. Most of the Homework Gets Done in Texas.
California's new heavy-duty AV rules demand a million autonomous miles before a driverless semi can deploy, but up to 800,000…
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Nobody Can Build A Refinery In 90 Days, So The Feds Just Let Fuel Truckers Drive 16-Hour Shifts
FMCSA just handed gasoline and diesel haulers a 90-day pass to run 16-hour days. The ceiling isn't new, the justification…
America Is Making More Diesel Than It Has Since 2019. It Still Costs a Record $6.29.
The most useful number inside this week’s record diesel prices is not $6.29. It is...
Ford’s 17-Truck Recall, Diesel Past $6, and What Else Moved
Our automotive news roundup for the last 24 hours: three more Ford recalls, a Daimler repair being done a third…
Six California Pumps Hit $9.999. The Pump Isn’t the Thing That Broke.
California diesel prices hit $7.764 a gallon while six pumps maxed out at $9.999. Federal data shows demand is actually…
This ‘Trading Floor’ For New Cars Just Went Bankrupt. Federal Records Show It Wasn’t Even Legally Cleared To Move Its Own Inventory
Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership’s lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands...
Werner Trucking’s 1,400-Veteran Pledge to the White House Isn’t Even Its Biggest — That Was 2018
Werner Enterprises stood next to representatives of the White House on July 30 and pledged...
The Feds Just Shut Down 110 Truck Driving Schools Overnight — One Taught Class Inside a School Bus Crammed in a Trailer
Somewhere in America over the past few weeks, a federal inspector walked into what a...
California Legalized 80,000-Pound Driverless Trucks Using a Rule Built for Fixing Typos. The Teamsters Just Called That Bluff.
No self-driving semi has crashed on a California freeway. None has even been allowed to...
Washington Yanked 24,000 Truckers Off the Road and Called It a Safety Win. Then It Started Begging Veterans to Replace Them.
Every trucker pulled off the road for a safety violation has to be replaced by...
Motive Sold Truckers an AI Camera to Keep Them Out of Court. Now the Camera Is the One Being Sued
For the better part of a decade, the sales pitch behind putting an AI camera...
EPA’s New Truck Rule Turns a Federal Felony Into a Factory Setting
Mac Spurlock ran a diesel repair shop in Wasilla, Alaska. In 2022, about thirty armed...
A Wasilla Diesel Mechanic’s Pardon Exposes the EPA’s Cold-Weather Blind Spot
Somewhere on the Dalton Highway this winter, a loaded semi will lose power at forty...
Did North Carolina Actually Fix Its Trucker Licensing Problem?
When the U.S. Department of Transportation announced in January that a federal audit had found...