Live with FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs | Freight Expectations

What happens to the global supply chain when tender rejections start creeping back toward pandemic-era heights? While demand metrics currently look modest, the foundation of available fleet capacity is far more brittle than it appears. CEO of RXO Drew Wilkerson outlines the critical variables logistics leaders need to monitor to protect their cargo networks from future disruptions as the market hardens.

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.

This has long been my advice to a young person looking to break into journalism. Three steps: 1) Find some public data that most people are ignoring. 2) Really learn what it measures and how to aggregate and present it. 3) Through posting, become the expert everyone turns to.

WE’RE GOING TO AN ELLA LANGLEY CONCERT ON THE 18TH AND WE’RE EVEN GOING TO MEET HER!!!!

In a volatile market, long-term service reliability consistently outlasts seasonal rate fluctuations. While pricing always matters to corporate shippers, securing consistent capacity at key strategic locations remains the top priority. Building a unified freight network allows large carriers to maintain service guarantees, keeping supply chains fluid when assets are needed most.

The road to stabilizing trucking insurance rates starts with a complete overhaul of operator vetting. Thom Albrecht, Chief Revenue Officer at Reliance Partners, breaks down the key regulatory updates that insurance underwriters are demanding to make highways safer. From minimum training hours for CDLs to tightening freight broker bonding requirements, major changes are looming to ensure only properly vetted fleets can hit the road.

Are bad actors in trucking quietly stockpiling DOT numbers? Right now, it costs about $300 to $350 to register an operating authority. But as safety regulations tighten and the FMCSA faces pressure to conduct stricter upfront safety audits, that cost could easily skyrocket to $5,000–$10,000 in the future. Full episode: vist.ly/57kvf

The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building. The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce. When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.

スペースXのIPOが話題だけどトラック界のテスラと称されていた米国の大型BEVトラックメーカーのニコラを覚えていますか？大型BEVトラックが走行している様に見えるけど実は下り坂から車両を転がしているだけと発覚して大炎上。一時期はフォードの時価総額を超えた事もあったけど倒産しましたよね。

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