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Three stories that moved trucking last week 👇

🆔 FMCSA's new Motus registration system went live May 19. Biometric ID checks, facial scans, and one dashboard. Fraud carriers, your days are numbered.

📈 Spot rates jumped during Roadcheck week as capacity tightened. DAT load posts climbed 29% in a single week as brokers scrambled to cover freight before inspections pulled trucks off the road.

💸 ATRI's new report: truck crashes are down, but insurance premiums keep climbing. Litigation and nuclear verdicts, not safety, are driving the bill.

We track the rules, the rates and the road, so you can stay focused on the miles.

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A sharecropper's son who quit school in the 7th grade built one of the biggest trucking empires in America. 🛣️

Johnnie Bryan Hunt didn't have money. He didn't have schooling. He didn't even have trucking experience when he started. What he had was grit, a wife who believed in him, and the courage to bet everything on five used trucks in 1969.

Today J.B. Hunt runs over 20,000 trucks and pulls in $12 billion a year.

Every legend starts with one truck.
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Amazon and Walmart are officially at war, and the battlefield is rural America. 🛣️

Amazon just dropped $4 billion to expand same-day and next-day delivery into 4,000 small towns and rural communities. Walmart's response?

They don't need to spend it - 90% of Americans already live within 10 miles of a Walmart.

This isn't a packaging war. It's a signal.

The companies winning rural delivery today are positioning for:
🚛 local warehouse dominance
🚛 last-mile control
🚛 customer loyalty at the doorstep
🚛 lane and data ownership
🚛 the foundation for autonomous and AI-assisted logistics

For carriers and small fleets, this opens real doors, regional loads, middle-mile support, final-mile contracts, dedicated rural routes.

But here's the catch: rural delivery has always been brutal. Fuel, deadhead miles, detention, distance, and low stop density can wipe out margins overnight. The carriers who win will be the ones who can run lean, route smart, and price right.

The $1 trillion fight for small-town America is just getting started.

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Three stories that changed trucking this week 👇

⚖️ SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that freight brokers can be sued for hiring unsafe carriers. The preemption shield is gone.

🚓 CVSA's Roadcheck blitz wrapped May 14 with a 31% out-of-service rate on day one — nearly double last year.

⛽ Diesel hit $5.38 a gallon, up 63% on the year, as the Iran war chokes the Strait of Hormuz.

We track the rules, the rates and the road — so you don't have to.

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