Rich Laskowski 🥋

Something else to consider is that Trump hasn’t done anything to stop the next round of emissions regulation on trucks and a lot of truck buyers are going to wait to see what kind of junk is unleashed on the industry with 2027 model equipment. I do wonder if shippers and brokers are going to take the opportunity to stop being rxtxrds about a few things. Brokers with various highly annoying surveillance tech requirements and tracking apps and other garbage; will they give up on treating drivers like shit if those drivers have better options? And shippers …. Will they do something about detention? How many decades of not solving this problem and wasting so much available capacity will they continue to tolerate when it’s a truckers market and more carriers can tell the serial time wasters to go and pound sand?

This Tesla Semi Frito-Lay truck is sitting at the industrial gate fully loaded with a massive trailer when it just takes off smooth and strong like it weighs nothing... The driver sits calm in the cab as the bright yellow and red cab pulls forward, turns sharp onto the road, and the whole Cheetos-wrapped trailer follows with zero strain while the fence and warehouse slide past. Electric trucks like this look futuristic and efficient hauling heavy loads without breaking a sweat, but now you’re watching one accelerate right in front of you Do you get excited about the future of clean trucking and cheer how quiet and powerful it is, or worry that these heavy battery rigs are going to tear up roads, bridges, and infrastructure faster than anyone admits?

Not surprisingly, Super Ego's statement calling the "60 Minutes" segment misleading is ... wait for it ... misleading. A class-action lawsuit I'm currently going through details a network of carriers and dispatchers owned and controlled by Super Ego.

Brokers get blamed because they’re the ones picking carriers and handing out loads—often the cheapest ones from outfits with sketchy safety scores or foreign ties that FMCSA flags as high-risk. CH Robinson’s “Carrier of the Year” award to a non-registered chameleon carrier (15k violations, 500 crashes) is the kind of example truckers point to as willful blindness for margin. DOT/FMCSA sets the rules and runs registration vetting (they just rolled out tighter anti-chameleon checks on addresses, ownership, and records), but they don’t book every truck. Brokers do daily business with carriers and have tools/databases to screen beyond basic FMCSA lookup. Truckers argue that skipping deeper diligence undercuts legit U.S. operators and lets unsafe rigs roll. It’s shared failure: regulators enforce, brokers transact.

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