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Lead Story · Regulation & Emissions
Proposed EPA change keeps NoX limits in place, impacts other truck regulations
The EPA released its long-awaited proposed revisions to the 2023 heavy-duty NoX rule Thursday, and the headline number will surprise no one who feared a full rollback: the core nitrogen oxide standards stay in place, with the agency projecting the amended rule still delivers 90% of the promised emissions cuts. The real changes are procedural — warranty mileage requirements get sliced from a planned 450,000 miles back to 100,000 and pushed to model year 2030, deratements get replaced with audible DEF warnings, and manufacturers gain access to noncompliance penalties instead of hard production stops. A 45-day comment period is now open. For fleets and 3PLs pricing multi-year equipment plans, the message is stability on emissions targets but real relief on the compliance mechanics that were set to make MY2027 trucks more expensive to own.
Air Cargo & Supply Chain
Amazon air bridge supports Venezuela earthquake relief
Amazon Air Cargo is deploying seven weekly humanitarian flights from Miami to Caracas, donating aircraft and fuel to move relief supplies into a country where more than 3,800 people have died and nearly 2 million need aid following last month’s earthquakes. DHL has run its own relief flights in parallel, moving more than 100 tons of aid via Panama since late June. It’s the first time Amazon has worked directly with nonprofit Airlink, and it’s a reminder that private cargo capacity — the same networks 3PLs lean on for peak season — is also the fastest lever available when disaster strikes.
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White Paper: Q2 2026 Freight Brokerage Rate Report
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Cargo Fraud
Truck driver accused of using fake documents to steal $2.9M cargo
Indiana police arrested a California driver after recovering nearly $2.9 million worth of tungsten oxide powder — stolen days earlier in Pennsylvania — following a tip and a traffic stop on Interstate 70. Authorities say the driver used fraudulent paperwork to obtain the load, which was bound for Mitsubishi Materials in Japan. It’s the same playbook 3PLs have been warned about all year: forged documents, a legitimate-looking pickup, and a shipment that vanishes before anyone notices the paper trail doesn’t hold up.
3PL Technology & M&A
Trimble shares get upward bump on report it may sell transportation unit
Trimble is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs to shop its Transportation & Logistics segment — the unit built around its TMS and Trimble Maps products — after 15 years of acquiring its way into the space. The segment brings in $550 million a year, about 15% of Trimble’s revenue, and Oppenheimer’s Kristen Owen thinks it draws private equity interest given how busy freight-tech M&A has been lately, from DAT’s Convoy tech-stack buy to Vista’s Omnitracs deal. For 3PLs and brokers running Trimble-built TMS tools, a sale means a new owner — and likely a new roadmap — could be coming.
Compliance & Enforcement
Operation Safe Driver Week hits July 12 — the ticket you get this week follows you long after
CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week runs July 12 through 18 across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with reckless and careless driving as the official focus for a third straight year — though last year’s data shows speeding, not "reckless driving," generated the bulk of citations (917 versus just 20). The real stakes are downstream: every citation feeds the Unsafe Driving BASIC in FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System, which shapes inspection frequency, insurance pricing, and increasingly, which loads brokers will book a carrier for. For 3PLs vetting capacity this week, a clean CSA profile just got a little more valuable.
3PL Spotlight
3PL Spotlight
Highway looks to become the ‘Plaid for Freight’ as cargo theft goes direct
Highway’s Chief Commercial Officer Michael Caney says the freight industry is repeating fintech’s arc — moving from good-faith paperwork to enforceable digital rails — and positions Highway as the "Plaid" doing it. As identity verification has made carrier impersonation harder, theft has shifted from double-brokering to legitimate carriers "breaking bad," and Highway now monitors roughly 2.5 million loads a month for the behavioral tells that flag it: a five-truck outfit suddenly booking 100 loads, or unfamiliar carriers moving into high-value lanes. Its Trusted Freight Exchange has scaled to roughly 100,000 vetted carriers and 250-300 broker customers in about seven months — a sign that post-Montgomery, "enforceable standards" are becoming table stakes rather than a nice-to-have for brokers who want to stay insurable.
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