Todd Dills

Overdrive July Trucker of the Month Jeffrey Crise is motivated, like most owner-ops, by prospects for profit. But if you take one thing away from the hotshot hauler's story, listen for the passion behind a primary goal: To be a true source of support for drivers as his business grows.

Starting Aug. 23, Brake Safety Week inspections will see troopers fan out to scales and the roadside with a particular focus on drums and air-disc systems' rotors. There's some good news about truckers' prevention in the data, though intensity of brakes violations in the wider mix nationally just keeps rising. Detail here on the most intense states, more.

Just last year, the state of North Carolina explicitly banned the booting of commercial vehicles, yet private-tow tactics for parking enforcement clearly remain available to towing companies with latest headlines reporting a $9K tow bearing hallmarks of a parking-lot trap.

Almost two months to the day since making a public appearance to cut the ribbon at the grand opening festivities of her Dolly's Tennessean travel stop, music icon Dolly Parton has passed: Her nephew shared the news with this moving message.

Independent flatbedder Dee Zeeman combines OTR and mechanical knowhow with the steady hand in the back office of his wife, Bev, whose quick thinking in a critical moment might well have saved his life.

Two carrier-authority suspensions with active insurance on file, one brokerage-authority grant with no bond? July Trucker of the Month Jeffrey Crise, DPW Inc. owner Kristin Crawford detail Motus mixups they're still at a loss to explain, worth tens of thousands in lost income. There could more than 1,000 other similarly situated carriers.

Diesel inventories hit a low for 2026, below even the lowest point in 2022, when watchers warned of extremely low stocks. Demand for U.S. petroleum exports drives it with world access to Middle East oil hampered by war. Don't count on the AI data center construction boom to solve that problem.

Truck and engine OEMs generally have three paths to compliant engines in EPA's proposed NOx-2027 rule changes, all of which are likely to add thousands to the cost of new units.

Overdrive August Trucker of the Month Jeffrey Crise gets his authority back after Motus-glitch "involuntary suspension," yet the same can't be said for many as case-by-case triage continues.

Last week's FTR freight fraud panel focused in on revenue fraud like double-brokering and increasingly sophisticated cargo theft rings, likewise touching on what was on everybody’s mind Tuesday last week the day after DOT and DHS announced the new White House "Crossroads" fraud task force.