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U.S.–Canada trade diplomacy was thrown into reverse late Thursday, Oct. 24, when President Donald Trump declared negotiations “terminated,” blaming a new Ontario government television spot that stitches lines from a 1987 Ronald Reagan address to argue against tariffs. The White…
Calls to modernize how America trains, tests, and licenses professional drivers are growing louder. Carriers need faster, more consistent pathways to get safe, job‑ready CDL holders into trucks — and tougher guardrails to keep bad actors out. That balance, long…
FreightWaves’ latest deep dive warns that “CDL mills” — lightly supervised training operations enabled by a permissive federal registry — are pushing inadequately prepared drivers onto U.S. highways. The report traces how self-certified “training providers” mushroomed alongside legitimate state-licensed schools,…
Total Quality Logistics has notched a pivotal courtroom victory in Washington, D.C., in its long-running dispute with Pink Cheetah Express over freight-broker transparency. A federal judge dismissed the carrier’s suit, concluding that an FMCSA email urging TQL to comply with…
Covenant Logistics’ leadership is bracing carriers for a rough finish to 2025 even as they argue the ingredients for a healthier market are finally falling into place. On the company’s third-quarter call, CEO David Parker and President Paul Bunn said…
A pointed FreightWaves commentary argues the American Trucking Associations has spent years pushing policies that inflated capacity and muddied safety—damaging carrier economics while eroding public trust. That critique is arriving just as federal regulators ratchet up on-the-road enforcement and states…
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is telling lawmakers that the fastest way to make roads safer isn’t to widen the pipeline of new drivers — it’s to raise the bar for who gets behind the wheel. In a push on…
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 20 granted review in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock, a case that asks whether local delivery drivers who move bread and snack cakes entirely within one state are nonetheless “transportation workers” engaged in interstate…
A Texas trucking executive says drivers are increasingly anxious that they’ll be singled out under stepped‑up English-language checks — a fear amplified by uneven enforcement from state to state. In a FreightWaves report published Oct. 21, the CEO said carriers…
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is pressing Congress to hard-wire safety into the next highway bill, urging lawmakers to scrap what it calls “unsafe” CDL waivers and exemptions and to resist policies that expand the driver pool at the expense…
