National Overview — Monday, September 29, 2025 Two systems drive today’s impacts: a tropical storm offshore of the Southeast sending bands of heavy rain, gusty coastal winds, and dangerous surf; and an early-season Pacific storm brushing Northern California into far southwest Oregon with scattered downpours, a few thunderstorms, and gusty…
Canada’s mail system ground to a halt after 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers walked out on September 25, hours after Ottawa ordered sweeping changes at Canada Post to stem mounting losses. The strike freezes letter and parcel movements just as retailers ramp up for holiday shipping,…
Joplin, Mo. — The message rolling out of this weekend’s Guilty By Association Truck Show was blunt: if federal regulators want to make trucking safer and more sustainable, start by valuing drivers’ time. In a listening session captured by FreightWaves, owner-operators and company drivers pressed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety…
DOT ISSUES EMERGENCY RULE CURBING NON-DOMICILED CDLS; ORDERS ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN CALIFORNIA FMCSA announced an emergency interim final rule tightening eligibility for non-domiciled CLPs/CDLs and launched enforcement against California over alleged licensing failures. Fleets employing foreign-domiciled drivers should review eligibility and verification steps immediately. BORDER CARRIERS WARN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ENFORCEMENT COULD…
Canada’s postal network ground to a halt on September 25, 2025, after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) launched a national strike, suspending mail and parcel processing and canceling scheduled pickups nationwide. Service guarantees have been lifted for items already in the network, with Canada Post warning that any…
As federal regulators weigh new ways to carve more “flexibility” into hours-of-service, the message from the driver’s seat is getting sharper: the real safety and retention lever is compensation, not squeezing extra productivity out of the 14-hour clock. That sentiment dominated a recent federal listening effort covered by FreightWaves, where…
Mexico’s cargo theft risk escalated in the third quarter as organized crews leaned on more sophisticated and violent tactics to seize freight in motion and peel off high-demand loads. Industry security analysts warn that hijackings, spoofed paperwork and tech-enabled takedowns are reshaping route planning and insurance exposure for cross-border carriers.…
A federal appeals court on September 25 reversed a lower-court win for P.A.M. Transport, sending two former Nashville-based drivers’ hostile work environment claims back for trial and signaling that supervisors’ use of “monkey” and related slurs can, on its own and in context with other treatment, support race-based harassment allegations.…
President Donald Trump said the United States will apply a 25% tariff on heavy trucks built outside the country effective October 1, escalating a year of trade actions and immediately raising the stakes for truck makers, dealers and fleets weighing fourth‑quarter purchases. The move arrived alongside new tariffs on other…
Why this short, humble moment matters A recent YouTube short titled “Truck driver with 50 years Exp Didn’t Think he Deserved an Interview! Happy Birthday Driver” captures a veteran behind the wheel who downplays his own story. The clip is brief, but the message lands: experience, humility, and decades of…
