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@FreightAlley Insurance didn't move but everything else did, you go to the dealer for repairs and charge uncalled $235/hour you raise the insurance which is expensive as is and you have more small carriers going bankrupt. Owner operators have enough expenses.

Insurance minimums for motor carriers has not moved beyond $750k set in 1985. Just to keep up with CPI inflation, it should be 2 million. To match medical inflation, it should be closer to $3.5m

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

@GordMagill @dcryansnyder @BarrsDerek @SecDuffy 100%

Hey @dcryansnyder and @BarrsDerek and @SecDuffy It’s time to get serious. ELP OOS theatre is not enough. You have to seize trucks, find the owners, and jail/deport them along with their ‘drivers’.

@supertrucker Very true it happend to me with a broker I worked before.

Thanks, AI!

@SecDuffy Not enough should be no american citizenship or permanent residency no trucking, when caught driving illegaly impound truck/trailers and arrest the drivers that's how you really clean up the trucking industry.

NO ENGLISH, NO TRUCKING ❌🚛 This is only the beginning 👀

@atutruckers Not only foreign brokerages also foreign carriers and dispatch services.

Need legislation to ban Foreign freight brokerages

@NodaWolf It's not only Uzbecks, palestinians bought a former Bailey fitness building in Westlake,OH and turned it in a mosque they call it Muslim Center of West Cleveland Muslim Asdociation, every Friday they take parking spaces on all businesses around.

Islamic Uzbek gangsters are invading small Ohio farm towns with HUNDREDS of chameleon carrier shell companies. They’re LAUNDERING MILLIONS - Funding the construction of the Islamic Center of Maineville, Ohio… Meanwhile… There is NO dedicated migrant fraud task force in Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio. WHY

@supertrucker Another red flag should be the ownership of the company, if it was ever sold, when and to whom.

The biggest red flag brokers need to look for is English Language Proficiency violations. If the carrier doesn’t care whether or not their driver understands English, they really don’t care about anything else. I expect activity among carriers with ELP violations to nosedive.

@FreightAlley @maybedanielleee I agree some of them will be dumb enough to think nothing will happen to them and they will be the first ones out when s*hit hits the fan.

@maybedanielleee I think a lot of brokers are riverboat gamblers and will take their chances until we see some big payouts. I get the sense that most brokers think they are not impacted and this wont be an issue for them.

The SCOTUS ruling has nothing to do with the recent spike in trucking rates. SCOTUS impact will take years to work out and it will be months before we understand what it means for trucking rates. They are certainly going up, but not immediately. The surge in rates are caused by: classic supply and demand factors: A capacity crunch caused by regulatory crackdown of unregulated trucking firms. The trucking industry has become a Wild West of outlaws and criminals. The industry has faced a secuirty, safety, and economic crisis due to unknown drivers and carriers coming in. DOT is trying to fix that. It’s causing a shock to the market. Second, industrial activity is accelerating across the country. AI data centers, defense, energy are driving industrial activity at American factories. Add to it that American industry is far more competitive due to our energy abundance and you have the perfect ingredients for an industrial renaissance. Truckers are railroads are starting to feel it.

@atutruckers Shippers should be next.

A bomb has dropped on the criminal freight brokers!

@maybedanielleee True they laugh in the face of @SecDuffy and FMCSA.

When we say an out of service order is a nothing more than a time-out, this is exactly what we mean. They will not stop driving until someone forces them out of the truck, not just “off the road.”

@atutruckers I never heard of a short term green card there is a 3 years conditional green card if you get it through marriage and turns to permanent green card if you don't divorce in those 3 years.

Truck driver with a “Short Term Green Card” lost his CDL in Ohio What is a short term green card and why are they being issued?

@Liquid_Bulk East coast, west coast different "country" 😁

@daynight11999 Right coast

Of course truck parking costs money. The bank charges interest on the property. The seller charged for the land. The town charges taxes. Insurance costs money. Maintenance costs money. Truckers are business owners, not civil servants entitled to free storage. Appreciate truckers all day long, but business expenses are part of the game. Put your big boy pants on and stop crying every time parking isn’t free. A tractor trailer takes up 1,000+ square feet. Nobody owes you that space for free. If you find free parking or the state provides it, great. That means you did good business that day.

@Liquid_Bulk A few Petro's used to charge if you stayed more than an hour and didn't buy fuel or used the repair shop.

@daynight11999 Our truck stop has charged for parking since the late 80’s sir.

@FreightWaves How many were illegals and non-domicile?

Truck transportation jobs in April rose by an amount that has not been seen for a long time. The jobs total of 1,496,600 jobs was 4,300 more than in March. To find a one-month gain of more than 4,300 jobs in truck transportation, you need to go back to September 2023, when the BLS reported a jobs gain in that sector of 6,000 jobs. vist.ly/53hr2

@TruckerDesiree I agree they don't know there was no paid parking at truck stops till like 15 years ago.

The people who don't drive a truck but get their palms greased to promote Truck Parking Club are a different level of sleezebag. These are not appropriate places to park a truck. No employee should be paying business expenses for the employer & get shaken down by a 3rd party.

@garrett_makes @SearchCarriers You have to go to the new fmcsa carrier portal.

Reminder that @SearchCarriers is free, no login required for the same details you're trying to get off Safer.

@FreightBrkrGuy @maybedanielleee @freightcaviar I see them on the road at shippers and receivers but still the fuel is where it is how can you stay afloat with cheap freight?

@daynight11999 @maybedanielleee @freightcaviar Bold assumption. Have you met a typical driver these days?

Truck drivers when they don't want to pay for truck parking