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Dec 18, 2025

Trucking Headlines Breakdown: Real Change or More Roadblocks?

This blog post breaks down key takeaways from a roundup of trucking articles you need to know. Each section links to the full story so you can dive

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Dec 18, 2025

🚫🚬 ATA Pushes Back on Marijuana Reclassification: Safety or Stigma?

Intro: A New High... or a New Headache for Truckers? With all the talk about the federal government possibly reclassifying marijuana, most Americans are

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Dec 18, 2025

📬 USPS May Open Last-Mile Delivery to Bids – Freight Game-Changer or Chaos Incoming?

Intro: This Ain’t Just About Mailboxes You ever hear something and go, “Wait… say what now?” That’s what the logistics world did this week when the U.S.

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Dec 18, 2025

🚛 Congress Just Launched a Trucking Caucus – But Will It Actually Help Drivers?

Introduction – A Seat at the Table or Just Lip Service? After years of drivers asking, yelling, and protesting for better treatment, Congress has finally

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Dec 18, 2025

Ford’s New Truck Game Plan: Real Innovation or Just More Hype?

Introduction Ford’s making waves again — this time saying they’re doubling down on trucks, hybrids, and battery storage while scaling back flashy electric

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Dec 18, 2025

Cargo Theft in 2026: Strategies Fleets Can’t Afford to Ignore

Introduction – Welcome to the New Wild West If you think cargo theft peaked during the pandemic... you ain’t been watching the truck stops lately. Here

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Dec 18, 2025

Immigrant Truckers Get a Second Chance: California’s CDL Flip-Flop Explained

Intro: What in the Regulatory Road Rage is Going On? Imagine busting your tail for years behind the wheel, dodging traffic, living out of truck stops,

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Dec 17, 2025

🚨 Rail Merger Madness: Is Big Business About to Steamroll Truckers (Again)?

Introduction – Another Day, Another Billion-Dollar Deal Look, we all know how the story goes: two massive companies shake hands in a backroom deal,

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Dec 17, 2025

PGT Just Bought a 67-Year-Old Kansas Carrier – What It Means for the Rest of Us

Another Old-School Fleet Gets Swallowed in the Name of “Expansion” PGT Trucking just made a big move — acquiring a 67-year-old Kansas-based trucking company

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Dec 17, 2025

Fuel Crisis or Cold Excuse? Hours-of-Service Waivers Hit the Northeast

Truckers Called In to Save the Day — Again Winter’s barely settled in, and already parts of the Northeast are cracking under the weight of the cold. So

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Dec 17, 2025

Self-Driving Truck Showdown: Aurora vs. the Teamsters Union

🤖 Introduction: No Driver, No Deal? In the latest twist on the road to automation, Aurora’s CEO just told the Teamsters: “No thanks.” The union had demanded

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Dec 17, 2025

New York’s “Hidden Toll Tax” – Why Truckers Are Sounding the Alarm on This 1% Fee

This Ain’t Just a New York Problem – It’s a Trucker Wake-Up Call You ever notice how government loves to slip in fees while nobody’s looking? Well, they

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Dec 17, 2025

Lawsuit Over EV Charging Funds Could Stall Trucking’s Electric Future

🔌 Introduction: When politics jams your charging station If you thought delays at the fuel island were bad, wait ‘til you hear this one. Sixteen states

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Dec 17, 2025

🚨 Teamsters vs. Titans: Why a $85 Billion Rail Merger Might Just Jack Up Trucking

Union Pacific + Norfolk Southern = Trouble? So here’s the setup: Two of the biggest freight rail giants — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern — are trying

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Dec 16, 2025

The Fusable Advantage & 5 More Must-Know Trucking Updates (No Fluff)

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

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Dec 16, 2025

🚨 FMCSA Plans to Flip the Script on Trucking Safety in 2026

Old School Safety Ain’t Cutting It Anymore – And FMCSA Knows It FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs just put the industry on notice: the old way of doing

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Dec 16, 2025

📰 Arkansas Trucking Update: Vol. 30 Issue 5 — What Drivers Need to Know (No Fluff)

Introduction: Same Old News or the Start of Big Change? The latest edition of Arkansas Trucking Report (Vol. 30, Issue 5) drops a mix of policy, politics,

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Dec 16, 2025

🔟 Top 10 Reasons Commercial Trucking Professionals Choose Fusable

The tech that’s winning over fleet managers, owner-ops, and drivers coast to coast. Introduction: The Road’s Changing — Are You Ready? In today’s trucking

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Dec 16, 2025

🚨 Another Trucking Company Collapses — 600 Drivers Laid Off Overnight

Why this keeps happening, how it affects YOU, and what every trucker should be doing right now. Introduction: Déjà Vu on Diesel Another week, another

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Dec 16, 2025

🚨 The Evidence That Wins Trucking Injury Cases

What lawyers look for, what drivers need to know, and how to protect your future. Introduction: When the Truck Stops, the Fight Starts You never think

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Dec 16, 2025

🚨 Texas Trucking Accidents & House Bill 19: What Every Driver Needs to Know

Why lawyers are mad, companies are smiling, and what it means for YOU behind the wheel. Introduction: Texas Just Flipped the Script If you’re driving

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Dec 15, 2025

🚨 CDL Chaos, Under-21 Debate, and 350,000 Plates a Year — What’s Really Happening in Trucking?

This ain’t your typical trucking news roundup. We’re throwing on Hervy’s “Report Better News” sauce and digging deeper — past the headlines, into what

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Dec 15, 2025

Is trucking a great career for 2026

The truth? Trucking’s not dead — but it’s definitely changed. And if you’re not changing with it, you’ll get run over. Look, I’ve been in the game

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Dec 15, 2025

🚨 CDL Scandal: New York Becomes 8th State Caught in Immigrant Licensing Mess

Intro: Another Day, Another DMV Disaster — And Truckers Take the Hit Just when you thought the system might be getting its act together, here we go again...

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Dec 15, 2025

🚨 Tragedy on the Turnpike: Man Killed by Tractor-Trailer in Tamiami — Who’s Really at Risk Out There?

Intro: Another Life Lost, Another Truck Driver Traumatized It happened early one Saturday morning. A man, trying to cross the southbound lanes of Florida’s

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Dec 15, 2025

🍳 Inside the Kitchen That Feeds America’s Road Warriors: How the World’s Biggest Truck Stop Makes 350,000 Meals a Year

Intro: This Ain’t Just a Truck Stop — It’s a Trucker's Town You ever roll into a place so legendary, you almost feel like you should take your hat off?

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Dec 15, 2025

🛣️ House Bill Could Let Under‑21 Drivers Haul Interstate — Game-Changer or Road Hazard?

Intro: Age Ain’t Nothing but a DOT Number? Imagine this: you're 19 years old, fresh outta CDL school, hauling freight from El Paso to Houston — no problem.

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Dec 15, 2025

🔥 Battery Farm Battle in New Milford: Clean Energy or Quiet Catastrophe?

Intro: When Green Energy Meets Small-Town Pushback Just when you thought New Milford, Connecticut was your average sleepy town with winding roads and

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Dec 14, 2025

What the Heck Is Going On in Trucking? 6 Real Stories You Need to Know (That Ain’t on Mainstream News)

This ain’t your granddaddy’s trucking update. We pulled together six recent stories shaking up the trucking world — from legal crackdowns to bathroom

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Dec 14, 2025

🚨 Strange Bedfellows: States Say Freight Brokers Aren’t Protected by ‘Safety Exception’

This Courtroom Showdown Could Flip Broker Power on Its Head In a surprising twist that’s got brokers sweating and carriers cheering (maybe), a group of

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