Issue archive

What a check-call bot really saves

We read every vendor's own numbers. The one per-load figure: about a minute.

Somebody built a fake MOTUS

One real address, four lookalikes. Plus: FMCSA's carrier file went quiet.

Diesel set a record. Did your surcharge?

Three numbers fix it. Plus: AI bots that said 'take care' for 18 hours.

The camera cannot change your CSA score

Two vendors had a disagreement. Your trucks went dark

Twenty-nine percent of every ELD ever certified is gone

They deleted the rule because the system already knows

Then 22 states sued over that system, a judge froze part of it Friday — and 36 states never deleted their own rule anyway. The 50-state lookup is live.

It doesn't know what doesn't exist

I asked two AI models 24 freight questions. Eighteen had no answer they could give.

Registered is not verified

Nobody caught them. A speeding ticket did.

It took the struck-through number

The cost conversation was never the real conversation.

Automate the typing. Never the deciding

Three rules die July 22. Your duty doesn't

FMCSA won't tell you which states still want your conviction report.

Half of freight just said no to AI

41% of brokers are buying AI agents. 48% won't touch them. A year into the hype, both sides are right — depending on your operation

A $290,000 truck for $50,000?

California's EV-truck stack is real — but the federal credit everyone quotes just died. The honest math.

The robots came for the clipboard

C.H. Robinson just turned carrier selection into software. The one back-office task to automate first.

Driver-out went live this month

A driverless truck doesn't stop for a 10-hour break.

The vetting reckoning: the Supreme Court just made your broker liable for you

Point-in-time vetting is dead. Here's what brokers are buying instead.

MOTUS, two weeks in: a design consultancy built the bug board FMCSA didn't

Two weeks into MOTUS — what's broken, what's hidden, what to do.

C.H. Robinson runs 30 AI agents. Here's the part they skip

A technical teardown — the anatomy, the real cost, and the 5 questions that separate real from slideware.

Three federal moves, 72 hours, same operators

Why your broker liability insurance probably doesn't cover Montgomery. And the 14-ELD swap script.

MOTUS Phase II: The Operator's Field Guide

What changes at 8 PM ET on May 14, where carriers get stuck, and what to do this week.