NEW ORLEANS — On November 17, 2025, Trimble used its Insight Tech Conference to move beyond AI buzzwords and into the plumbing of day‑to‑day trucking work. The company unveiled a cloud‑native, modular Transportation Management System alongside new AI agents aimed squarely at the chokepoints that burn time and margin: order…
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 remain unchanged. The warning lands as the Federal Motor Carrier…
NEVADA TO CANCEL NEARLY 1,000 NON-DOMICILED CDLS UNDER NEW FEDERAL GUIDANCE Nevada DMV said Nov. 17 it will revoke 975 non-domiciled CDLs/CLPs and permanently end its limited-term CDL program to align with FMCSA’s interim rule. USDOT has threatened funding penalties for states that fail to comply. APPEALS COURT PAUSES FMCSA’S…
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 appendix are now due December 1, 2025, with the respondents’…
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 U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy trade barbs, industry lawyers and…
C.H. Robinson is expanding again on the Texas–Mexico line, adding 450,000 square feet of warehousing and cross-dock capacity in El Paso to capture accelerating nearshoring flows out of Ciudad Juárez and the broader Chihuahua manufacturing basin. The move builds on the broker’s border strategy and comes as its customers shift…
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 touch national security. Their warning landed Nov. 14, the same…
The U.S. Supreme Court has put Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC on a fast track, granting a briefing schedule that starts with the petitioner’s merits brief due December 1 and the respondents’ brief due January 14. The petitioner, truck-crash victim Shawn Montgomery, is represented by former U.S. Solicitor General…
C.H. Robinson is enlarging its U.S.–Mexico gateway in El Paso with an additional 450,000 square feet of warehousing and cross-docking space, a move the company ties directly to manufacturers shifting production to Mexico and to rising flows of high‑tech, automotive and medical freight through Ciudad Juárez. Executives say El Paso…
What the Stamped Schedule 1 Is—and Why It Matters When you file IRS Form 2290 for the Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT), the document you’re waiting for is the IRS-stamped Schedule 1. This stamped or watermarked page is your official proof that HVUT has been reported and, when applicable,…
