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A Bay City, Michigan, resident dressed as Satan to protest a proposed 2027 bridge toll hike. Some non-resident truckers could pay $13.50. Comments are open now.
Knight-Swift CEO Adam Miller says the carrier will open bid season seeking low-to-mid double-digit rate hikes, while finding good drivers stays hard.
A CargoNet report cited by Land Line says thieves took over $150 million in AI equipment this year, with deception used in 92% of high-value tech thefts.
Santa Ana police say two pallets of Pokemon and sports cards, estimated at $963,000, were stolen from a FedEx truck on Oct. 13. No arrests have been reported.
An Oregon lawsuit by Daimler Truck North America accuses a former test fleet supervisor and his wife of misusing nearly $3.8 million. The claims are unproven.
The Energy Department will exchange up to 315,000 barrels of heating oil from reserve sites in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Bids are due Oct. 27.
Motive's new AI Agents can open work orders and mark trucks out of service under rules a fleet sets. AI phone calls to drivers are coming later this year.
Sweden-based Einride will test NVIDIA's Alpamayo reasoning AI in shadow mode in its autonomous trucks, with a live road evaluation planned for late 2027.
ATA's seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index rose 0.8% in September to 114.0. It was flat from a year earlier and up 0.9% so far this year, ATA says.
Ventura County deputies say they caught a crew siphoning diesel from parked semis in Thousand Oaks and tied it to five thefts across Oxnard, Camarillo and Thousand Oaks.
A FreightWaves review of federal records found at least 16 trucking and transportation companies filed for bankruptcy between Sept. 18 and Oct. 21, 2026, including one-truck operations.