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The graph illustrates two clear, diverging trends: ​The Blue Line (Industry Growth): Shows the steady rise in registered large trucks and buses from 5.8 million to over 14.4 million vehicles. ​The Red Line (Safety Efficiency)

Analyzing 45 years of FMCSA data: How has truck safety evolved as the industry expanded? Since 1975, the number of registered large trucks and buses in the U.S. has grown by 148%, reaching a record 14.5 million vehicles by 2020. #Trucking #DataAnalysis #RoadSafety

Despite this massive fleet growth, safety efficiency has significantly improved. The fatal crash rate per 100,000 registered vehicles has dropped by 54% since 1975. The data indicates that modern roads are statistically safer per vehicle than in the 1970s and 80s.

@maybedanielleee I’ve seen freight stolen by carriers with 10 trucks and 80 inspections, 10 trucks with 0 inspections, and 1 truck with 5 inspections. I’ve said it before no vetting works when you’re dealing with a professional. The root cause buying and selling MC numbers needs to be stopped.

I’m not one to judge a trucking company by zero inspections. However, if the company has been in business since 1994 with ZERO inspections, you are dumb to give him freight.

@TMSuccessful Capacity is tight. Brokers are desperate but still don’t want to pay, so they post a load for $4,000 to get calls. When a carrier calls, they say, that load is booked and only the $2,500 one is available, but they can add another $500. They only need one carrier to take the bait

I wonder which rate was posted first. I used to see this a lot. Post a rate, see that a bunch of cheap dimwits take loads paying 1.50 per mile, and then repost with a lower rate.

@maybedanielleee They used to add one or two trucks, but hundreds of inspections were giving them away. Sixty-one trucks with 100 inspections doesn’t look suspicious, but one truck with 100 inspections definitely does.

@maybedanielleee That’s a chameleon carrier with both leased trucks and their own trucks. They run dispatch companies that have hundreds of middle-aged, non-English-speaking owner-operators running freight, often unknowingly Stealing freight.

I find it interesting that a brand new trucking company already has 61 trucks.

@Tianmere @maybedanielleee Most famous U.S serial killers were white men, yet no rational person claims whiteness predicts violence. That’s exactly how absurd it sounds when people equate ethnic names with being “un-American” or “non-citizen.”

@CheemaKay @maybedanielleee While true, it also doesn't guarantee they're citizens. Unfortunately, during a time like this, especially when it's one group more than others, assumptions will be made.

Oshkosh Defense is a U.S. military vehicle manufacturer. Their core business is designing and manufacturing tactical military vehicles. Everything from armored trucks to tank transporters. I found an interesting commercial motor vehicle inspection. Rather than posting that concern, I’ll leave the Google reviews from truck drivers here.

cabotage rule voilations – Canadian & Mexican carriers are abusing loopholes, running illegal U.S. domestic loads. With currency exchange advantage, they undercut American truckers $400–$500 a load. ⚠️ Rates collapse. ⚠️ U.S. truckers bleed out. ⚠️ Foreign carriers take over.

Fraud is out of control: Chameleon carriers – shut down for violations, then reopen next week under a new DOT number with the same owner & address. FMCSA rubber-stamps it. Brokers keep booking them because they haul cheap. Safety & accountability = gone.

THE AMERICAN TRUCKING INDUSTRY IS BEING DESTROYED FMCSA & USDOT know the problem with non-domiciled CDLs. They even wrote an interim rule. But it’s toothless. states aren’t following it. Result? Illegals are still getting CDLs and driving 80,000 lb trucks .

@TMSuccessful And that’s how American companies struggle to run at today’s market rates. A shady outfit would’ve told the driver to skip the scale and limp the truck as close as to a shop, just to plug the tire instead of replacing it saving $700–800, risking the lives of everyone around.

LOL only in trucking. I had an anxiety attack over one of my trucks. Got a call from my driver saying there is a nail in one of the tires and a weigh station that was right ahead with no tire shops around. The only open tire shop was after the weight station so obviously I had to call to get an after-hours-highly-priced tire service. All good, tires were fixed and are in supreme condition now. My driver goes on to proudly go through the weigh station…and the officer gives him a bypass. So driver stops and asks, “You don’t want to do an inspection?” The officer yells, “NO”. So my guy says, “Maybe at least a level III?”, officer yells, “NO. NO PARKING.” 😂 I can guarantee that had he NOT caught the nail in the tire, and passed the weigh station, it would have been a Level I inspection. C’est la vie.

@boneheadtruckrs Many Somalians in Minnesota got licenses from CA that seemed bought. Back in 2018, when I trained at one of the biggest trucking companies in the USA, I saw drivers who couldn’t speak English, couldn’t merge, and struggled with basic driving skills.

I received an email from a mother that lost her son due to a truck driver doing an illegal u-turn. Her son was driving a motorcycle and t-boned the truck doing the illegal maneuver. According to the mother, the driver was Somalian and only received 2 citations and was let go. The driver's name is Ayaad Sheikh Nuur. She said it is unclear the immigration status. She came to me asking for help. I asked her to send me whatever she had like police reports. If anyone has any info on this, let me know. This wreck was back in August. Here is one of the stories online. APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - One person is dead after a crash between a motorcycle and a semi-trailer in Outagamie County on Thursday night. Just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to the intersection of County Highway CB and Design Drive for a report of a semitrailer vs motorcycle crash. Authorities say that a preliminary investigation shows that the motorcycle collided with the semitrailer. The driver, identified as 19-year-old Damyen Worm of Neenah, died of his injuries. The driver of the semitrailer, 34-year-old Ayaad Sheikh Nuur of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was not injured. The Wisconsin State Patrol Technical Reconstruction Unit is currently investigating the crash, and no other information has been released.

@TMSuccessful Ah, lucky you. Even my goto brokers dropped $300–$400 on lanes I usually cover, and they were firm on that.

@CheemaKay Personally, I had an easy time in the Midwest this week, but a really difficult go in Arkansas.

Yes, posted rates this week have increased for all three equipment types in many regions, while volumes have decreased. I’ve attached the flatbed comparison as an example. However, an interesting trend persists: in many areas, rates are still being posted for pennies, despite no one taking or even viewing them (as shown by load views on Truckstop). Brokers, forced to pay higher rates through negotiations, seem frustrated. They hesitate to ask customers for more, fearing they’ll lose business, yet they’re also unwilling to absorb a financial loss. If the market begins to improve, carriers must adapt. It would be tragic if, after nearly four years of a challenging market, carriers continued to panic-book low rates. We cannot be our own worst enemy.

@GrandeDiesel @longmag7 @TMSuccessful Harman who?

@CheemaKay @longmag7 @TMSuccessful What does Harman say?

Just putting it out there...someone should really look into the Yuba City DMV in CA. This is the only reported DMV that is renewing Medical Cards right now (as of October 17, 2025), it is also the DMV that a lot of people chose to take their CDL test at because it was "easier". @SecDuffy

@longmag7 @TMSuccessful @GrandeDiesel Not a troll. Most Cali DMVs are updating med cards up to 6 months in advance for non domiciled licenses.

@TMSuccessful @GrandeDiesel It’s a troll. Citizen & GC guys messing with the non-dom guys. Did some Digging Turns out the traditional Punjabi community that’s been in trucking for the last 20-40yrsdon’t get along with the new arrivals non domiciled crowd due to…well obvious reasons. 😂😂

Not seeing mutations in 12 seconds doesn’t prove they never happen — especially if they occur at reproduction events (Big Bang/phase transitions) rather than mid-life. Dr. Tyson — useful analogy, or just poetry

Black holes = immune/recycling, dark matter = skeleton, EM spectrum = signals, Big Bang = reproduction. And while 13.8 billion years feels vast to us, on a cosmic ‘stellar-era’ lifetime of ~100 trillion years that’s just ~12 seconds on a 24-hour clock.

@neiltyson If the universe is an organism, are the laws of physics its DNA? Like DNA, they may ‘mutate’ or at least express differently at different scales — Newton locally, relativity at high speeds, quantum at small scales, expansion beyond light.