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09/03/2026

Herlene Ancar of SAGE Truck Driving Schools has a simple question for carriers hunting for drivers: why not look at the people already loading your trucks? The dockhands doing the hard grunt work have already proven they show up and they can do the job. Promote them into driving and you start with loyalty you did not have to buy. She sees the same with diesel mechanics who never got a CDL, where companies send their senior guys over to train. Those people already understand punctuality and work ethic, so what she gets in the classroom is someone ready to learn, and watching the light bulbs go off as they step up to the next level is the part she loves.

09/03/2026

Charles Soncrant describes running under someone else's authority as an express lane pass at Disney World. You skip the two years of standing in line building your own reputation and borrow theirs instead. Here is why he says that is dangerous for the person actually driving the truck. Shippers and consignees have to be able to prove they paid the carrier. If you are signed on under ABC Trucking and ABC does not pay you, but the shipper can prove they paid ABC, the shipper and consignee are off the hook entirely. It falls under equitable estoppel and becomes a civil matter between employee and employer. Federal law is not going to save you there.

09/02/2026

When the Busch family still had Anheuser-Busch, Rob Carpenter hauled for them and they reconciled their books every 30 days. It did not matter what you hauled, you got paid. Then InBev bought them and immediately moved to 180 day terms. Run the math on that. If you are pulling barley out of the port at $500,000 a month, by the time six months rolls around you are $3 million in the hole before you have seen your first check. The only way around it is factoring, and good luck finding a factor willing to front $3 million to a fresh company. Rob calls capital the most under-realized and misrepresented problem facing new operators.

09/02/2026

Herlene Ancar of SAGE Truck Driving Schools sees the same pattern over and over. The recruiter sells a good product, but leaves out the intricate details, or the recruiter and the trainer are not speaking the same language. So a new driver signs on, and six weeks into a twelve week training course they are already saying this is not for me. Nobody told them they would be away for the full twelve weeks. Nobody told them they would be covering lodging, food, and expenses out of pocket up front. Her fix is not complicated: transparency from the very beginning is what it takes to both recruit and keep people.

09/01/2026

Charles Soncrant, President of Kizer, Schwartz and Associates, says most carriers do not think about legal protection until the problem is already sitting on top of them, and by then the clock has run. You have an 18 month statute of limitations from the day that invoice goes out. You are not getting paid inside 60 days, so two months are gone. Another 30 days disappear while you try to figure out what to do. Then you start calling attorneys, waiting for callbacks, sitting through consultations with people who do not know what a bill of lading is. By the time you pick a collections department, the wrong one will eat six to ten months more, if not the entire year.

09/01/2026

Rob Carpenter has argued for years that the industry needs an open deck endorsement for load securement, and he cannot make sense of why one has never existed. You need a passenger endorsement, and ELDT to get it, to be told not to cross the yellow line at the front of a bus. You need nothing at all to understand the brake strength of your equipment, working load limits, or how many points of securement a load requires. In the first quarter of last year he handled five expert cases that were all fatalities, and every single one of them was load securement related. Plates coming off trucks and going through windshields.

The trucking industry is facing a workforce cliff that most people outside the industry haven't heard of yet. Seth Milli...
09/01/2026

The trucking industry is facing a workforce cliff that most people outside the industry haven't heard of yet. Seth Millican, president and CEO of the Georgia Trucking Association, joined Justin Holden to lay out the numbers: 45% of Georgia's commercial drivers are 55 or older, and the pipeline to replace them is not ready.

Beyond workforce, Seth covered cargo theft evolving into sophisticated international fraud operations, the 2025 tort reform victory in Georgia, and why finding a sustainable funding stream for freight infrastructure is the most urgent unresolved policy challenge in the state. Full episode available now!

08/31/2026

Asked what one thing he would change in trucking tomorrow, Charles Soncrant answered without hesitating: he would outlaw brokers. Then he immediately qualified it. There are some genuinely good brokers out there, and plenty of them rely on him to help guide them. He is not saying brokers are bad. What he is saying is that the mere fact brokers exist is the thing fraud companies are exploiting.

08/30/2026

Rob Carpenter ran seafood up the East Coast, Virginia to Miami to Savannah and on to Hunts Point in New York, where arriving late to market meant the freight was worthless. He shares the moment he learned to recognize when it was time to pull over, and reflects on how much the standards around that have changed since.

08/30/2026

Herlene Ancar, campus director at SAGE Truck Driving Schools, is not against college. Her point is about the students who were never on that track, who have no 529 plan waiting for them. CDL school takes seven weeks, eight at the most, and the return on investment shows up almost immediately. No debt. Straight into the workforce. Steadily employed and generating income while their peers are still years from a diploma.

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