Rob Carpenter

Got the numbers for the Super Ego segment tonight. 10M+ and 2M on YouTube. There's more coming same topic, different shows, and multiple networks. If the industry makes enough noise as a whole, things begin to change. I've written articles on @FreightWaves that saw trash companies lose $2B in market cap in 20 minutes. You can literally just do things. Be loud enough about it to where the world, not just the industry demands change especially while we have an administration run by @SecDuffy and @BarrsDerek willing to drive real change.

Verisk CargoNet counted 547 cargo thefts in the third quarter, down 33%, while the average loss jumped 72% to $448,456. A federal case in Connecticut shows how the thieves now work

Solid line. Blind hill. Trooper coming. First one nearly takes a trooper head on. Second one passes and ends up in the woods. Same mistake twice: a pass with no room, no time and no line that says you can. Head-on crashes are the most deadly event in about 14% of all U.S. traffic deaths. Of the fatal head-ons, about 84% happen on rural two-lanes. If you can't see it, you can't pass it.

On Nov. 10, FMCSA ordered YMC Transport LLC out of service. The trucks it ran started moving to a new USDOT number on Aug. 7 and are running under MLTZX Group today. And the next company in line went live on Nov. 1, right on the schedule we said it would.

1 bad actor down... a network, and probably close to 10k VINs to go. Our predictive models show the most likely successors: ZPVR Auto (6014649, Vandalia, IL) was on the bench with no inspections as of Oct. 31. It went live Nov. 1: 17 inspections, 15 VINs and 13 states in six days, through Nov. 6. Ten of those VINs come from the same pool, and seven came straight off SVDX. SVDX’s USDOT number is now inactive, so ZPVR is picking up SVDX’s trucks the same way MLTZX picked up GVNL’s. BXRT has no inspections yet. Its officer is the same person listed on Central Transit Services, the first link in the chain, so it’s the most likely next carrier for the trucks. BXRT Group (5231662, Marion, IL) now has insurance. Artisan and Truckers filed a $1 million policy, CA882125084, effective Nov. 4. What are you doing Artisan?! I'd love to see the agent who filed the blanket policy on this one with FMCSA. That’s the same insurer and the same monthly pattern: SVDX: CA878483137, Aug. 20 MLTZX: CA880216102, Sept. 21 ZPVR: CA881471156, Oct. 19 BXRT: CA882125084, Nov. 4 Three new registrations from the last nine days All three match the pattern exactly: four-letter “Transport” or “Auto” LLC names, single apartments in small downstate Illinois towns, Proton email, one truck, no inspections, and no insurance yet.

Push a button. Steal a truck. If this was a manual transmission it wouldn't have happened. Stolen 18-wheeler, 50 mile chase, then a crash. Twenty years ago that thief has to find the gears on a 10 speed first. Today he pushes D. 2005: about 10% of new Class 8 trucks self-shifted. 2015: 55%. Today: 90% plus. Over the same years, deaths in large truck crashes went from 3,380 in 2009, the lowest on record, to 5,340 in 2024. Correlation isn't causation. But nobody even tracks which stolen trucks were automatics.

It's been a year to the day since Bambi's Dad here ran into this driver and took the passenger seat. It's November in Virginia, and this is the month it happens most. Virginia logged 7,486 deer crashes in 2024, half of them in the last quarter. Jake over at @StateFarm paid $1.9 billion on animal collision claims last year. Don't swerve. Brake, hold your lane, take the hit.

53 people were loaded into a trailer at an East El Paso truck yard on Oct. 28. The man's carrier, which still holds active FMCSA authority, hauled freight for a defense prime contractor and had a truck moving loads in Kansas the day after his arrest.

14,500 bridge hits a year. Plan the FN trip! The excavator cleared the trailer. It didn't clear the bridge. Now the overpass needs a rebuild, the machine is in the road, and there's a car in the back of it. 4 claims. Paperwork. Higher premiums and probably a new job. This why we built araynge.app with over height, ground clearance, over height, hazmat, enforcement, crashes and more built into the route.

Our political leadership top-down is generally unfamiliar with day-to-day issues the frontline of society deal with beyond what someone tells them and advises them on. Who our leaders listen to for insight sometimes amazes me. More than that, it turns to us as a society and both the advisor and the politician move on with their lives. Virginia tops the list right now.

Six vehicles a day get hit by trains in the US, what are the odds two trucks get hit within a 1/4 mile by the same train on the same day?

Got another one out over at @FreightWaves. Every trucking bill the 119th Congress hasn’t passed dies at noon on Jan. 3. The only must-pass bill left on the calendar comes due Dec. 11, and most of the safety gains of the last 18 months still rest on memos and rules that a court or the next administration can undo. freightwaves.com/news/what-t…

We don't have to live this way. This is why we created loadverifi.com 👉Validate the Carrier 👉Validate the ID. 👉Validate the driver. 👉Ensure the driver is qualified. 👉Validate the equipment. Track the equipment end to end, regardless of what telematics are in their truck. 👉Store load and party data in a cryptographic chain.

For the people who say these bad actors and chameleons cost them nothing, this guy might have been left holding the bag. Great West and Accredited Specialty need to pay better attention to who they insure. While working with the lot owner of this business, we placed this driver OOS because he destroyed the trailer's brake chambers and lines, etc., while running over the wall. After the cop left, the driver drove off. The information the driver provided led to nowhere. We had to connect him with the right insurer and the right claims people.

This video isn't what's necessarily important, but my question for MCSAP-funded State Agency Partners of FMCSA is: how do we let Phoenix cargo go without a pull-in for inspection? I ask because their ISS score dictates that enforcement can't choose whether to inspect. There's a mandatory pull-in, so how did they roll on without an inspection?

What's wrong with Indiana's CDL program? This is a start, and it's similar to many State CDL programs. If they have a CDL, do you have to road test them to hire them? No. As an employer, you can use a CDL in lieu of a road test. Should you do a road test and go beyond compliance? Absolutely. Don't trust the EDLT program, the examiner, or the state that licensed them. Trust what you can see: a proficient driver who fits your fleet.

M&M Wrecker Service out there doing the Lord's work in Missouri. Elections just put someone in a seat, Blue collar actually does the work that runs this country.

This company isn't on the FCRP list of approved carriers. So how did it get military freight? Brokers, agencies, or interlined freight. This means an approved carrier or broker gave it to them, and since they have no SCAC, they let them use their SCAC to move the freight. This likely means it was a carrier, not a broker. One approved "DOT family" shares 17 SCACs. Another shares 11 codes in one suite with two trucks. In all, 29 families share and use three or more codes each, 147 of the 253 approved. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/RobCarpenter/status/21…