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Diesel prices surge to new 2026 high
Prices at the pump are surging again, while spot market rates continue a late-summer slide.During the most recent week ending Aug. 24, the Energy Information Administration reported that diesel prices increased by 19.8 cents nationally, following up on the prior week’s 19.7-cent increase. Diesel's at a new 2026 high of $5.65 per gallon. When fuel prices first surged this year in…
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C.H. Robinson goes into damage control after $604 million verdict
The battle over C.H. Robinson's thermonuclear $604 million verdict has boiled over from the courthouse into the media. The mega broker in July lost the Lipe v. Lupus Superior case, with a Dallas County jury drawing some conclusions that could impact trucking in a huge way. (The jury found the driver…
‘Right thing to do’: Small fleet owner-op Elton Wek’s lifetime trucking, still rolling
One thing I’ve learned meeting all manner of new and seasoned operators in my time around trucking: there’s no better path to good advice than befriending an owner-operator willing to be an ear.Walking the expansive state fairgrounds in Huron, South Dakota, during the recent edition of the annual Wheel Jam…
Inside Truck Parking Club’s complicated relationship to Super Ego, property owners
Truck Parking Club, the paid-parking giant that courts owner-operators and property owners to its app, has a long, complicated history with a notorious “nightmare” customer, Super Ego.In fact, Super Ego’s overstays at Truck Parking Club properties reached such legendary proportion, the company devised a penalty system to bill them as…
Trucking telematics, dashcams, and usage-based insurance
Investments in technology are an ever-more common lynchpin in owner-operators' approach to improving the business-risk profile with insurers. More than just one insurance company today offers a straight percentage discount for new customers enrolling in liability-insurance programs to connect with partner vendors' electronic logging devices or broader telematics platforms. Investment in an…
$2.2M coming to truck drivers after state misclassification suit
STG Logistics, which recently completed a financial restructuring following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, has reached a settlement with New Jersey in relation to allegations of truck driver misclassification in which the company will pay more than $2.7 million.New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Kevin D. Jarvis, Acting Commissioner of…
How non-domiciled CDL drivers will try to get FMCSA ban rejected
New court filings reveal how lawyers representing non-citizen drivers will try to overturn the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's near total ban on non-domiciled CDLs.As California argued as part of a recent filing, non-citizen drivers are perhaps even safer than U.S. citizens, and FMCSA jumped to an unreasonable conclusion with…