Your morning rundown for owner-operators, last-mile drivers and the dealers who sell their rigs. Friday, October 23, 2026. 🚛 Trailer Orders Go Nuclear While Class 8 Can't Make Up Its Mind FTR reported 43,059 U.S. trailer net orders in September, up 78% from August and 385% above a year ago, the biggest month since December 2022. ACT Research counted 42,700, up 311% year over year. Both point to pent-up replacement demand after a long stretch of lean buying, early openings of

Six stories from the last 24 hours: record diesel and the heating oil reserve loan, Tesla Semi production, International's second shift, Mack's 2027 outlook, September tonnage and Toyota's hydrogen refueling.

Seven stories from the last 24 hours: Class 8 and trailer orders, diesel at $6.276, reefer rejections, a $963K cargo theft, the Paccar MX-13 lawsuit and staged-crash fraud.

Three fresh stories from the ATA show floor: a 1,200-mile natural gas Cascadia, a trailer fairing claiming 3 gallons saved per 1,000 miles, and a lock-plus-landing-gear system aimed at trailer theft.

Six stories from the last 24 hours for owner-operators, final mile drivers and dealers.

🅿️ $200 Million Is Coming for Truck Parking Anyone who has circled a full truck stop at hour ten knows parking is a safety issue. The U.S. DOT announced Wednesday that $200 million in annual funding through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America program will go to truck parking projects in 12 states. Named projects include about 260 spaces on I-91 in Enfield, Connecticut, roughly 500 spaces at five Pilot Travel Centers near Nashville and Knoxville, and around 106 spaces a

Your daily Trucker Tales rundown: the last 24 hours of news for owner-operators, final mile drivers, and dealers. ⛽ $8 Diesel in California: The Squeeze on Small Carriers California's on-highway diesel averaged $8.09 a gallon on Monday, according to the Energy Information Administration. That is up a penny from the week before and a touch under the September peak near $8.25, but nobody hauling freight in the Golden State is calling it relief. Truckers have been asking state l

Driver pay, driverless-truck beacons, OEM sales and orders, used truck prices and fuel — today's owner-operator and dealer news.

🗣️ English Proficiency Out-of-Service Rule: Comment Period Closed The comment window on FMCSA's August proposal to put drivers who can't meet English-proficiency standards straight out of service closed Oct. 9 with more than 2,000 submissions. OOIDA, signed by President Todd Spencer, filed comments backing the rule, arguing there is "no margin for error on the road." According to Land Line, CVSA stopped issuing ELP out-of-service orders around 2014, then reversed course in 2

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