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Freight & Logistics 'You Are in the New Normal': Strategic Cargo Theft Is Up 1,475% Since 2021, a FedEx Truck Lost $963,000 in Trading Cards Outside PSA, and Thieves Now Siphon Diesel at $6.30 a Gallon
At ATA's Management Conference in Charlotte on October 20, Scott Cornell of SPG Cargo & Logistics told fleets to stop waiting for theft to fall back to pre-2020 levels: strategic theft rose 1,475% between 2021 and 2024, CargoNet sees maybe one in ten full-truckload thefts, and reported losses alone were $724 million last year. The same week brought three examples of how the game is played now: two pallets of Pokémon and sports cards gone from a FedEx truck in Santa Ana with the cargo-door lock missing, Highway warning that fraud has moved from fake carriers to voice-AI social engineering of brokers, and a four-man crew arrested in Ventura County for siphoning 315 gallons of diesel from parked trucks. Here is what changed, what the numbers really say, and what a carrier or broker can do about it this week.
Trucking Red Diesel Goes East: West Virginia Declares a 60-Day Emergency, Virginia Opens Dyed Diesel to Haulers Through December, South Carolina Stops Checking, and North Carolina's Tax Holiday Makes It the Cheapest State. The Catch Is IFTA.
Two weeks after the first wave of red-dyed diesel orders in the Plains and the South, the relief has reached the East Coast. On October 20 Governor Patrick Morrisey declared a 60-day state of emergency in all 55 West Virginia counties and suspended penalties for burning dyed diesel on the road, naming trucking among the industries it is for. Virginia's Executive Directive 5 (October 16) runs through December 31 and tells the DMV to publish a way to pay the state tax and waive the penalty by October 23. South Carolina's State Transport Police stopped dyed-diesel inspections on commercial vehicles through year end. North Carolina's 41-cent tax holiday has pushed its diesel to $5.60, the lowest in the country, while the national average sits at $6.32. What none of this does is cancel state fuel tax: IFTA says every order so far keeps it, and the federal 24.4-cent deferral still has no payment guidance. Here is the map, the money, and what an interstate carrier should actually do.
Trucking $8 Billion for Farmers, a Tax Deferral for Truckers: What the Harvest Fuel Relief Program Pays, Why Trucking Is Not in It, and Why Diesel Turned Back Up to $6.28 the Same Day
At a Monday night rally in Park City, Kansas, President Trump announced an $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief Program: one-time USDA payments to farmers 'to offset diesel costs during this harvest season.' The money comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation, is paid by acreage and modeled 2026 crop losses, needs no crop insurance, and gets its first payment rates in November. Trucking, which burns far more diesel than agriculture and now ranks fuel as its No. 1 problem, gets nothing from it. What truckers have so far is a deferred 24.4-cent federal tax on red-dyed diesel through December 31 and a hours-of-service waiver for fuel haulers. The same Monday the EIA diesel benchmark behind most fuel surcharges rose 9.7 cents to $6.276, its first increase in three weeks. What the program does, what it does not, and what the numbers mean per mile.
FMCSA & Compliance $200 Million for 2,403 Truck Parking Spaces in 12 States: Where the 14 INFRA Projects Are, Who Gets the Most, Why Two of Them Build Public Spaces at Pilot Travel Centers, and Why Drivers Still Rank Parking Second Only to Fuel
U.S. DOT announced on October 14 a $200 million package from the INFRA program for 14 truck parking projects in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, adding 2,403 public spaces along major freight corridors. The biggest is 500 spaces at five Pilot Travel Centers along I-40 and I-24 in Tennessee; the next is 305 at the Los Indios border crossing in Texas. Since April 2025 the department says it has put more than $300 million into parking. Four days later ATRI's annual survey showed parking falling out of the industry's top 10 while drivers still rank it No. 2. The project list, the money per space, what is still missing, and what else FMCSA announced this week.
Freight & Logistics The $604 Million Verdict Against C.H. Robinson Is Now a Judgment: A Dallas Judge Upholds the Award Plus About $107 Million in Interest, Keeps the Finding That the Broker Controlled the Driver, and C.H. Robinson Heads to Appeal
Judge Dianne Jones of Dallas County Court on Friday, October 16, upheld the $604,025,000 verdict a jury returned in July in Lipe v. Lupus Superior, the first major broker-liability trial to reach a verdict since the Supreme Court's Montgomery decision. Analysts put prejudgment interest at roughly $107 million, taking the total past $700 million. The jury's finding that the Lupus Superior driver was on a mission for C.H. Robinson's benefit and 'subject to control by C.H. Robinson' survives into the appeal. C.H. Robinson says it did not cause the crash, that the carrier held a Satisfactory FMCSA rating before and after the accident and had hauled nearly 270 loads for it, and that Congress must write a national carrier-selection standard. What was decided, what comes next in the Texas courts, and what the ruling means for carriers whose freight comes through a broker.
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