🎣 Super Ego, Super Problem

Good Monday morning. The freight industry's worst-kept secret just made primetime. 60 Minutes spent 8 months investigating chameleon carriers. Here's what the investigation found.

Plus:

Florida's Four-Day Sweep
Trucks Aren't Selling
The $4.25M Bill

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Question of the Day: FMCSA has _____ investigators overseeing all 700,000 carriers on U.S. roads. Find answer in the feature story.

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🍳 What's Cookin' In Freight

Watch the full news conference of Operation Highway Shield **here**.

🚨 Florida Just Pulled 176 Drivers Off the Road in Four Days. Operation Highway Shield — a statewide enforcement sweep — inspected more than 3,300 commercial vehicles from March 23–26. Of the 176 drivers hit with out-of-service orders, 54 were flagged for language violations. Another 42 were arrested on federal immigration charges. This is the enforcement environment brokers are operating in right now. If your carrier vetting isn't checking English proficiency compliance, that's a liability sitting in your load history.

💸 Your Minimum Coverage Might Get a $4.25M Upgrade. A House bill introduced this week would hike the minimum insurance requirement for interstate motor carriers from the $750,000 number set back in 1980 to $5 million. The timing isn't accidental: it dropped the same week the 60 Minutes chameleon carrier investigation aired. Carriers running lean operations will feel this hardest. If it passes, expect insurance costs to ripple through spot rates fast.

📉 Freightliner's Q1 Was Brutal. Daimler Truck North America sold 29,432 trucks and buses in Q1 2026, down 24.5% from the same period last year and 13.5% below Q4 2025. Freight market weakness plus tariff uncertainty has fleets holding off on equipment spend. The one silver lining: Class 8 orders have been up 100%+ year over year in both February and March, meaning demand is coming.

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