Start your day with the latest breaking Military, Army, Trucking, and Transportation news.
News
Hasty US exit from Europe could drive allies away from American arms, RAND says
A rapid, uncoordinated U.S. military drawdown from Europe could push key NATO allies further away from American weapons over the long term, according to a new RAND study, a shift the authors say would hurt the U.S. defense industrial base. RAND released the report, “Anticipating Allies’ Responses to U.S. Retrenchment from Europe,” on Wednesday. It examines how France, Germany, Poland…
More Stories
Desolate Arctic outpost likely to host US troops under new Greenland deal
At a windswept gravel airstrip in eastern Greenland, a small Danish military detachment has quietly kept watch for decades.Now, under a new U.S. defense agreement signed this week, the outpost at Mestersvig could soon become a key American military foothold in the Arctic.Mestersvig sits 149 miles from the nearest settlement…
Owner-op income near record high already, early in upcycle: ATBS
Amid a month of turmoil, with rumors of a shutdown over historically high fuel prices bouncing around, Overdrive's Partners in Business coproducer ATBS urged owner-operators rather to "keep your foot on the gas" to make hay of what's likewise a historically favorable trucking market. That pedal-to-the-floor image ATBS Vice President Mike…
The 20-day clock on your trucking authority application
On Sept. 24 I pulled the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's public Motus-system registration files from data.transportation.gov, and counted every operating authority application sitting in Pending status. There were more than 22,000. In 21,400 of them, or 95.4%, no required liability insurance filing was recorded. The unfiled count went from 16,606…
Military personnel data exposed in breach, agency warns
A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center system allowed unauthorized users to access files containing unencrypted personal information, including Social Security numbers and military personnel data, according to a breach notification letter reviewed by Military Times.The Defense Manpower Data Center, or DMDC, discovered the vulnerability on July 16 in…
ICE names and shames carrier with 100% OOS rate, ‘illegal’ driver
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Maximo Garcia-Lopez, an "illegal alien from Guatemala," after a crash in Marlborough, Massachusetts, hospitalized a child. ICE took the unusual step of revealing the identity of the carrier Garcia-Lopez hauled for, YMY Transport LLC of Colonial Heights, Virginia. Data from Overdrive sister Fusable company Central Analysis…
Rocking, rolling: Nine-truck KST Logistics stacks honors
Shannon Sanders, owner of Manteca, California-based KST Logistics, has been on a journey of stabilization for the last couple years. In 2024, KST's founding owner-operator and Shannon's husband, Ken Sanders, died during a tragic accident on a load site, hit by falling pipe, throwing the business the Sanders had built…