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Aug 20, 2025
🗑️ Western Express: The Death Row of Trucking?
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Aug 20, 2025
Trucking’s Power Shift: What Drivers Need to Know About the Industry's New Game Plan
This blog post breaks down key takeaways from a video that pulls together tips from multiple articles. Each section links to the full article so you
Aug 20, 2025
**“Trucking Exodus?” – Why a New Illinois Law Might Make Fleets Hit the Road for Good**
**Intro: Illinois Drops a Bill That’s Got Truckers Talking (and Maybe Packing)** Just when you thought it couldn’t get more expensive to run a fleet in
Aug 20, 2025
**Diesel Down, Gas Up: What Truckers Should Know Before They Celebrate (Or Panic)**
**Intro: A Win at the Pump? Kinda. Sorta. Maybe.** Finally, some rare good news for trucking fleets and owner-operators: Diesel just dropped to a national
Aug 20, 2025
**Big Money, Bigger Moves – Why Trucking’s New Alliances Might Actually Matter**
**Intro: When the Suits Start Linking Up, the Industry’s About to Shift** Look, most drivers don’t wake up wondering what Wall Street's doing with supply
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Aug 20, 2025
**TRAC GeoFleet: The Smart Chassis Revolution Truckers Didn’t Ask For—But Might Love Anyway**
**Intro: Tired of Playing “Where’s My Chassis?”** If you’ve ever lost half your clock sitting around a port, waiting on a chassis that’s either “on its
Aug 20, 2025
**“Speak English or Park It?” – Why the Feds Are Coming Down Hard on CDL Language Rules**
**Intro: It Ain’t About Politics—It’s About Road Signs and Responsibility** You ever roll through a city, see a “No Trucks” sign at the last second, and
Aug 20, 2025
**Why Shippers Are Running Back to Dedicated Fleets (And Werner’s Grinning All the Way to the Bank)**
**Intro: When the Spot Market Starts Acting Funny… You Go Home to Mama** You ever mess around with a flaky dispatcher or shady broker, only to end up
Aug 19, 2025
Bridgestone’s New W920 Tire: Built for All Seasons or Just More Hype?
Intro – The Tire That Thinks It’s a Snowplow Bridgestone just dropped their latest all-weather commercial tire: the W920. They claim it’s built to handle
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Aug 19, 2025
Trucker’s Dashcam Shock: “I Thought I Hit a Deer… Turns Out It Was a Man”
Intro – From Bambi to 911 Real Quick Imagine this: You’re rolling down a dark backroad after a long shift. Something darts in front of your truck. You
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Aug 19, 2025
Michigan Mom-and-Pop Truck Stop Gets $1M Grant — To Become a Used Car Lot?
Intro – Say What Now? In a move that has truckers shaking their heads and economic planners patting themselves on the back, a small, independent truck
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Aug 19, 2025
Colorado Cracks Down on CDL Violators — What Truckers Need to Know
Intro – CDL or GTFO If you’re out here driving without a valid CDL, Colorado’s message is clear: “Park it, pal.” Law enforcement just wrapped up a targeted
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Aug 19, 2025
Truckstop.com Buys Denim: Faster Payments or Just Another Fee Trap?
Intro – From Load Boards to Loan Sharks? Truckstop.com, one of the biggest names in load boards, just dropped some serious money to acquire Denim, a fintech
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Aug 19, 2025
Western Express: The Death Row Records of Trucking?
Intro – Suge Knight with a Steering Wheel? If you’ve been around the trucking world for five minutes, you’ve probably heard the name Western Express.
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Aug 18, 2025
Trucking Industry Shakeup: Mergers, Bankruptcies & Tech Every Driver Should Know (2025)
This blog post breaks down key takeaways from a video that pulls together tips from multiple articles. Each section links to the full article so you
Aug 18, 2025
🚛 New $29/Month DOT Compliance Plan from Trucking Hub: Game-Changer or Gimmick?
Intro: A Compliance Plan You Can Actually Afford DOT compliance. Three words that send a chill down every trucker’s spine. Whether you’re an owner-op
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Aug 18, 2025
🚛 Michigan Carrier Koleaseco Joins Hyway Trucking in Industry Power Move
Intro: The Big Fish Keep Getting Bigger Another day, another trucking company gets scooped up. This time, it’s Koleaseco, a long-standing Michigan-based
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Aug 18, 2025
🚛 Trucking Hub Launches “Dashcam One” — The All-In-One Gadget Built for the Road
Intro: One Box to Rule Them All Tired of your dash looking like a RadioShack exploded? Cables everywhere. A dashcam here. An ELD tablet there. A separate
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Aug 18, 2025
🚛 Colorado’s Historic Bridge Gets a Diet: Truckers Forced to Slim Down Loads
Intro: When Infrastructure Says “You Too Heavy, Bruh” Imagine stepping on an old creaky porch that hollers at you with every step. That’s basically what
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Aug 18, 2025
🚛 Another One Bites the Dust: Why Trucking Companies Keep Going Bankrupt in 2025
Intro: 2025 Ain’t Playing Around If it feels like trucking companies are dropping like flies in 2025—you’re right. At least 17 U.S. carriers have shut
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Aug 18, 2025
🚛 From Freight to Felony: Trucker Faces Life After Getting Caught Hauling the Wrong Load
Introduction: When One Load Wrecks a Career Trucking comes with pressure—tight schedules, surprise inspections, bad dispatchers, and paychecks that barely
Aug 17, 2025
🛑 Trucking’s Super Bowl: National Championship Driver Journey
How One Competition Elevates the Whole Industry This blog post breaks down key takeaways from a video that pulls together insights from six powerful
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Aug 17, 2025
🚨 What Is Double Brokering in Trucking? Red Flags, Risks & Real Solutions
🤔 Intro – Ever Feel Like You’re the Last to Know Where Your Load Went? Imagine you accept a load from a broker. You do the job. Then... 📞 The shipper
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Aug 17, 2025
🚨 Fatal U-Turn on Florida Turnpike: 3 Dead, Trucker Arrested
⚠️ INTRO – One Bad Decision, Three Lives Lost One illegal U-turn. Three innocent people dead. One trucker behind bars — and possibly facing deportation.
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Aug 17, 2025
🏆 Local Trucker Hits the Big Leagues: Competing in the National Truck Driving Championship
🛻 INTRO – From Back Roads to the Big Stage Every town’s got that one driver — the one who can blindside into a dock tighter than a drum, back a 53-footer
Aug 17, 2025
🔥 Tesla-Loaded Truck Sparks Haz-Mat Fire on LA Freeway — What Went Wrong?
🚨 INTRO – What Do You Get When You Mix EVs and Flames? A traffic nightmare, hazmat chaos, and a whole bunch of hot takes from both truckers and Tesla
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Aug 17, 2025
Reducing Trucking Complaints Through Fleet Management – The Trailer Equipment Edition)
🚛 INTRO – Complaints Rolling In Like Rain on a Windshield Trucking complaints… if they were freight, the average carrier would be overloaded and shut
Aug 17, 2025
🏇 Horsepower Meets Electric Power: A Trucking Twist at a Southern California Horse Show
🔥 Intro: Wait... a Horse Show Powered by a Truck? Yep, you read that right. We’ve got horse trailers, saddles, dusty arenas — and now, a battery-powered
Aug 14, 2025
🚨 Big Rig Rollover Claims Driver in New York: What Went Wrong?
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