National Overview – Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Most of the Lower 48 remains quiet today with no organized severe-thunderstorm risk. Expect breezy and cooler conditions across the Great Lakes and Northeast. North-Central Texas turns hot, dry, and windy with elevated wildfire concerns. The West stays mostly calm until midweek. Plan…
As of October 21, 2025, investor skepticism around autonomous trucking is giving way to selective conviction. The latest signal: new coverage of public AV trucking names and a drumbeat of live, driverless milestones that shift the conversation from “if” to “how fast” the technology scales for freight. The FreightWaves report…
Truckstop has rolled out a SONAR-infused experience for dry van users inside its load board, putting real-time market signals where brokers and carriers actually search, price and book. One visible cue: a board-level heat map that highlights markets with faster-than-normal spot rate increases or declines, explicitly labeled as powered by…
Forward Air’s hunt for a buyer hit a wall Monday, triggering a sharp selloff that rippled through trucking circles watching the high‑profile process as a gauge of LTL sector confidence. FreightWaves reported there was no deal on the table, a reality check that swiftly bled into the stock price. ([]())…
Importers rushing to blunt tariff exposure are taking a fresh look at Mexico’s duty‑deferral and special customs regimes as the United States moves to levy a 25% duty on imported medium‑ and heavy‑duty trucks starting November 1 — with a 10% tariff on buses — and outlines how USMCA‑compliant vehicles…
Global plans for a first-ever carbon price on shipping were put on ice Friday, after President Donald Trump urged countries to vote “No” and denounced the proposal as a “Global Green New Scam Tax.” Delegates at the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) voted to adjourn the decision for a year,…
Wabash has closed the book on the St. Louis “nuclear verdict” that has shadowed the company and much of the trailer sector for the past year, reaching a settlement with the plaintiffs and halting further appeals, according to a report published Monday, October 20. The case stemmed from a 2019…
Importers are accelerating plans to stage and process freight inside Mexico’s foreign trade zone-style regimes as a hedge against fast-changing U.S. duties — a pivot spotlighted in FreightWaves’ Borderlands coverage and now reinforced by fresh tariff moves that reshape near-term trucking demand on both sides of the border. ([]()) The…
What happened and why drivers are talking about it A widely shared Mutha Trucker News video posted on October 20, 2025 shows a trucker being confronted after reportedly driving the wrong way through a truck stop lane where a two‑hour parking limit is posted. The clip captures a familiar flashpoint:…
National Overview — Mon, Oct 20, 2025 A fast-moving cold front exits the East early today, leaving a band of morning to midday showers and storms across the Northeast, then turning cooler and breezy behind it. Out West, coastal rain and high-elevation snow shift from the Pacific Northwest into the…
