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Rob Carpenter Trucking's crash reconstructionist, expert witness, and daily news desk. Driver, broker, fleet owner & compliance exec. Featured on CBS 60 Minutes. SiriusXM host.

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A Four-Year-Old Walked Into Route 41. A Tractor-Trailer Was Coming North.
09/30/2026

A Four-Year-Old Walked Into Route 41. A Tractor-Trailer Was Coming North.

Around 12:25 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2026, a four-year-old boy stepped off the grassy shoulder of State Route 41 in Highland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, crossed the southbound lane, and walked into the northbound lane. A tractor-trailer hit him. He was taken to Lancaster General....

They Bought the Carrier. Then They Stole the Load.
09/30/2026

They Bought the Carrier. Then They Stole the Load.

Arshpreet Singh paid $22,000 for a Texas carrier called Z&F Transportation LLC in March 2024. A co-conspirator picked up a load of televisions in Fontana the same month and drove them to nowhere. That's not a smash-and-grab. That's a supply chain infiltration, and a federal jury in Los Angeles said....

A Child Got Hurt. The Driver Had No License. The Carrier’s Truck Was Already 100% Out of Service.
09/29/2026

A Child Got Hurt. The Driver Had No License. The Carrier’s Truck Was Already 100% Out of Service.

ICE Boston arrested an unlicensed Guatemalan national on September 18 after his tractor-trailer allegedly struck a car carrying a child in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He'd been cited for the same offense in Connecticut two weeks before. His carrier, YMY Transport LLC, had a 100% vehicle out-of-servi...

Bulldog National Files to Escape a Policy
09/29/2026

Bulldog National Files to Escape a Policy

Bulldog National Risk Retention Group filed a declaratory judgment action against R.C Sonic Trucking LLC in the Southern District of Florida on September 15, 2026. The insurer wants a court to tell it what it owes or doesn't. That's a standard coverage fight. What makes it worth watching is what the...

How Prosecutors Allege Kristopher Lunsford Turned a $127 Million Passive-Income Pitch Into a Federal Fraud Case
09/29/2026

How Prosecutors Allege Kristopher Lunsford Turned a $127 Million Passive-Income Pitch Into a Federal Fraud Case

Kristopher Lunsford allegedly told more than 500 investors they could buy into a semi-truck fleet and collect guaranteed weekly checks without ever touching a steering wheel. According to prosecutors, roughly $2 million of the $105 million raised actually went to trucking operations. The rest went t...

A Wisconsin Carrier Sued Its Cargo Insurer. The Policy Is the Story.
09/29/2026

A Wisconsin Carrier Sued Its Cargo Insurer. The Policy Is the Story.

A Milwaukee-area trucking company and two of the specialty marine insurance market's biggest names are now in federal court over a cargo coverage dispute. The case is docket 2:26-cv-01153 in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. What makes it worth reading is not the claim it's what the claim reveals a...

He Claimed 2,000 Trucks. He Had About 20.
09/28/2026

He Claimed 2,000 Trucks. He Had About 20.

The pitch was simple: buy a lease on a semi-truck for $25,000 to $40,000, sit back, and collect $1,000 to $1,250 a week while Lunsford's operation did the rest. According to federal prosecutors, there was no operation. There were roughly 20 trucks, many of them broken down, and more than 500 investo...

174 Handguns, 167 Kilos of Suspected He**in, One Semi. MSP Motor Carrier Officers Pulled the Thread on I-69.
09/28/2026

174 Handguns, 167 Kilos of Suspected He**in, One Semi. MSP Motor Carrier Officers Pulled the Thread on I-69.

MSP Motor Carrier Officers stopped a semi on I-69 near Marshall, Michigan on September 24, 2026, and found 174 handguns with obliterated serial numbers and 92 bundles of suspected he**in weighing roughly 167 kilograms. The driver was arrested on drug and weapons violations. The investigation is ongo...

Someone Built a Fake CEVA App. It’s Sitting on Your Driver’s Phone, Reading Every Text.
09/24/2026

Someone Built a Fake CEVA App. It’s Sitting on Your Driver’s Phone, Reading Every Text.

Corp MDM doesn't need to do much. It just needs to catch the text that unlocks your TMS login, your EFS account, or your bank's two-factor code. Security researcher Ben Folland documented the implant this week. The operator behind it hasn't been identified. The infrastructure is live.

The B**r Thieves Are Organized. The Industry Is Finally Catching Up.
09/24/2026

The B**r Thieves Are Organized. The Industry Is Finally Catching Up.

Organized criminal groups stole an estimated $725 million in cargo in 2025 alone, a 60 percent jump from the year before. Food and beverage was the top targeted commodity category, with 708 thefts logged by Verisk CargoNet. The NBWA is now treating this as a supply chain security emergency.

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