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Federal and state agencies widened highway inspections of commercial drivers this week, targeting immigration status and paperwork gaps far from the southern border. For shippers that depend on time‑sensitive harvest moves, the stepped-up checks are arriving just as winter produce…
Federal regulators are edging closer to testing more flexible sleeper‑berth splits, and the industry’s message in the final hours before the comment window closed was clear: give drivers the option — and build ironclad safeguards so nobody is pushed into…
Republican lawmakers are escalating their push on the Surface Transportation Board to take a hard line on Union Pacific’s plan to acquire Norfolk Southern, characterizing the transcontinental railroad proposal as a monopolistic threat to shippers and consumers. FreightWaves first reported…
Federal regulators are preparing a closely watched experiment to test whether more flexible split-sleeper options can improve safety and productivity. But among drivers and safety advocates, a louder question is gaining traction: will added flexibility become another lever for dispatch…
A national highway safety organization is urging federal regulators not to move ahead with proposals that would let some truck drivers stretch their on‑duty day beyond the current 14‑hour limit, warning the plan risks amplifying fatigue and coercion rather than…
California’s long‑debated independent‑contractor law is no longer just an abstraction for motor carriers. In what appears to be the first publicized AB5-related trucking enforcement, state investigators cited three firms over driver misclassification tied to last‑mile deliveries — a carrier, a…
A leading highway safety coalition is urging federal officials not to lengthen how long commercial drivers can be on duty — a move the group says would add fatigue risk without clear safety benefits, even if the underlying driving-limit caps…
The U.S. Supreme Court has put a clock on the closely watched fight over freight-broker liability. In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, justices granted a request last week to shift the merits-briefing deadlines: the petitioner’s opening brief and the joint…
What began as a California dispute over 17,000 non‑domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) has quickly become a nationwide stress test of how states issue, verify and police CDLs — and how carriers manage the risk. While Gov. Gavin Newsom and…
Nine Republican state attorneys general are urging the Surface Transportation Board to put Union Pacific’s $85 billion bid for Norfolk Southern under a microscope, arguing that the coast-to-coast railroad it would create could erode competition, raise shippers’ costs and even…
