Investigations

What the federal record actually proves about driver distraction—and what Volvo’s one-in-ten forecast could mean through 2035 By Micheal “Cupcake” Cobb Primary-source analysis using NHTSA, FARS, FMCSA, NTSB, eCFR, FHWA, and Volvo Group records. Let’s start with the part nobody needs a Ph.D. to understand: a truck with no driver cannot have a driver watching TikTok, streaming a movie, texting, scrolling, eating a three-course dashboard dinner, or arguing with dispatch while

Why Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, Capital Group and Wellington—not Walmart or Amazon—belong in the next investigation of power in freight When people talk about power in trucking, they usually point at the biggest names they can see: Walmart, Amazon, UPS, FedEx, J.B. Hunt or Knight-Swift. That is understandable. Those companies put trucks on the road, buy enormous amounts of transportation and negotiate freight rates every day. But that is only the visible layer. Behind m