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Hey Bubba, why hasn't AI taken over trucking?
17+ hour, 55+ min ago (1080+ words) Last year at the Mid-America Trucking Show, Tapan Chaudhari introduced Hey Bubba, a voice AI dispatcher and assistant made for owner-operators and small fleets. Bubba looked like it had the potential to seriously shake things up." Bubba promised to handle…...
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1+ week, 4+ day ago (19+ words) DOT's Duffy: 'Spot rates are going to go up' as FMCSA cracks down on all types of fraud'overdriveonline.com...
Majority of owner-ops victims of freight fraud, broker tricks: Survey
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1070+ words) In the midst of the roughest, most prolonged freight market drought in modern history and an ongoing "fraud apocalypse," a majority of Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readership has suffered directly as a result of freight fraud, new survey results show." The…...
New freight fraud prevention tool offers best practices, education, more
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (616+ words) Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, March 10, 2026: A new resource for motor carriers, shippers, brokers and others in trucking has launched with the goal of helping educate, detect and prevent the growing threat of freight fraud. The National Motor Freight…...
Truckers' tools to prevent fuel fraud, theft: AI, cybersecurity self-help
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (182+ words) "What would be an acceptable false-positive rate in your minds?" he asked. "How many good transactions would you be OK with me stopping to prevent a bad one?" Those results he attributed largely to technical innovations, some described in part…...
$7.8 million cargo theft ring busted in Florida
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (364+ words) Trucking news and briefs for Monday, Feb. 16, 2026: The state of Florida has filed charges against a group of cargo thieves for their alleged involvement in at least 32 cargo theft incidents and a vessel theft in the state. Florida Attorney General…...
Legislation back in play to reform DataQ appeals
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (770+ words) Trucking news and briefs for Friday, Jan. 30, 2026: Legislation introduced this week in the U.S. House takes another shot at DataQs reform after similar legislation stalled in the previous Congress. Reps. Tracey Mann (R-Kansas) and Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) reintroduced the "Motor Carrier…...
Five ELDs pulled from FMCSA's 'Registered Devices' list
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (215+ words) The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Friday morning announced it removed five electronic logging devices from its list of registered devices. The devices were placed on FMCSA's Revoked Devices list'due to the companies' failure to meet the minimum requirements established…...
Beating 'social engineering' hacks: Cybersecurity for owner-ops
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (967+ words) The registration page is accessible via this link. Key takeaways from the fist session?" Social engineering-enabled hacks and thefts could come in the form of tricking you into giving up your bank account password, whether or not it's a good…...
Recommendations to ensure compliance with FMCSA's new electronic med cert rule
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (657+ words) Since the June 23 implementation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Medical Examiner's Certification Integration (NRII) rule that moves the certificate transmission process to an electronic system, there seems to be some confusion surrounding the new system in some cases....