If you missed the @CBSNews segment on brokers today you can find it here cbsnews.com/live/. I'm sharing the whole thing because you need to hear the whole thing. While I consulted on and did the undercover interview a lot goes into these and Michael Kaplan did an awesome job, @GenLogs again played a huge role. At the end of the day we have dangerous highways because we have non existent or very limited barriers to entry. At the end of the day there are consequences of this that we must focus on like Delilah Coleman and her family. Marcus also did great in this segment. This is what we're fighting for. Highway accident mitigation through appropriate barriers to entry, and licensing standards among so many other things. Brokers are a part but they're not the only part.

The debate about old equipment versus new rages pretty hard here on X, and for those of you have taken sides, or just happen to be Car and Truck people, you want to listen to this. cc @bog_beef @Tha_Big_Dog @uncledoomer @rustbeltkid1 @Empty_America @indietrucker @hellbenthagen

First, I want to say, I'm not racist, I'm anti-stupidity. I come from free blacks in colonial VA, and my nephew is black. What I am against is anybody who feels like race should give them any form of free pass, advantage, benefit, or any other stupidity that is in itself racist. I have black friends, I have black family...all of which know how to act. So don't misconstrue my posts as being anti-black. I'm not that guy. I'm anti-stupid and pro commonsense, civility, and just being a good person.

Enough said.

Tell me you pull cans for 50% of the gross without telling me you pull cans for 50% of the gross.

Texas DPS released the video of the June 4 truck fire on Highway 281 near Falfurrias. During the pursuit, Troopers deployed a tire deflation device to stop the vehicle, but the driver continued to evade until the tractor-trailer caught fire. Troopers unlocked the trailer and rescued 39 suspected illegal immigrants before the trailer became engulfed in flames.

Riling up publicity to suck in more money while using her son as a pawn... DISGUSTING!!

If you are an ATA member, an OOIDA member, a TCA member, or affiliated with any state trucking association, call your government affairs office and ask what their position is on H.R. 5408 and what they are doing about it in the Senate. This bill was not written with trucking in mind, but it applies to trucking, and the people who wrote it are not going to carve out an exemption for an industry they did not think about. @FreightWaves freightwaves.com/news/the-fa…

What the most radioactive name in American Politics taught us about Brand, PR, and psychology, and how @HunterBiden rebranded himself into a 2028 conversation. Here's what that has to do with trucking. open.substack.com/pub/therob…

You can't convince me in America in 2026 that we don't have some kind of really bad parenting issue. It's either that or the education system or both. Something systemic is causing people to be inconsiderate, entitled idiots.

In case you missed this on the 5th, the bill passed on the 10th. 230-193. This is terrible news for anyone, but especially for trucking.

I feel like we make life overly complicated. Just learn English. It's the US. Besides that, you both have phones. Speak to translate on each and both hit play. Way faster. And if they're deaf they can read it on the screen. 🤦🤷

My grandfather refused to sue people because he didn't believe the money awarded was money he had worked for and earned. Even if deserved. He was a farmer. We were never rich; he gave without ever asking for anything. Entitlement has created a very different world with very different people.

Like most bureaucratic problems, they seldom end where they started. This one is no different. While there are certainly issues being worked through, they didn't start today. The system before this one didn't work either we were just conditioned to believe it was a prize. My grandfather once told me, "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit." The change had to eventually come, and someone took the bull by the horns and stopped passing the buck. We're there. Now we just need to get it right. open.substack.com/pub/therob…

FMCSA inspection data shows the trailer that exploded on I-75 wasn't an outlier; it was a representative sample of how America's fireworks actually move. @FreightWaves freightwaves.com/news/whos-h…

Math is like English. It matters. Especially in trucking. Know both.

The drivers delivering America's last-mile and light-duty fleets are pulled off the road at nearly twice the rate and aren’t required to run drug tests. @FreightWaves freightwaves.com/news/the-dr…

What do you do when someone kills your unarmed child, they get rich off the aftermath while dragging your dead child and your family? That's something to really think about. To me...Jeff Metcalf handles this really well.

A @uhaul was used in a staged crash: truck pulls up, people get out of the car, U-Haul rams it multiple times, they get back in, and all 3 were arrested. Insurance fraud runs $308.6B a year. Louisiana’s “Operation Sideswipe” has produced 50 convictions. We all pay for it.

If you operate on highways with commercial trucks, this is a recruitment center image from Google maps for an Eastern European carrier where they herd drivers in, they push them into trucks as teams until they quit and then they herd in more and repeat. In a lot of cases These are 1099s, they're exploited and make net $0. Driver exploitation is probably more of the premise of the @60Minutes piece than the actual chameleon carrier issue.

Pre-trip inspections are the first line of defense against mechanical failure on the highway. For most of the industry, they are a 30-second checkbox exercise completed in the cab. That gap between regulation and reality is showing up in courtrooms. @FreightWaves freightwaves.com/news/the-dv…