Rob Carpenter

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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Travelers Joins the Ranks of Insurers Going to Court Against Super Ego
09/12/2026

Travelers Joins the Ranks of Insurers Going to Court Against Super Ego

On September 9, 2025, Travelers Property Casualty Company of America filed suit against Miser Logistics LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The docket number is 2:25-cv-08527. That's not remarkable on its face. Insurers sue their own insureds regularly. It matters....

A Walmart Parking Lot, $234,000 in Dimes, and 11 Years: What the Palmer Sentencing Says About Cargo Theft in 2026
09/11/2026

A Walmart Parking Lot, $234,000 in Dimes, and 11 Years: What the Palmer Sentencing Says About Cargo Theft in 2026

On September 11, 2026, a federal judge sentenced Philadelphia man Haneef Palmer to 11 years in prison and ordered $1 million in restitution for his role in a cargo theft ring that stole more than $1.5 million in freight from at least ten victims between January 2023 and July 2024, including $234,500...

Priority patient with 11 to the hospital. On the I-81 Truck crash radio: oxygen cylinders, a cardiac arrest, deputies’ c...
09/11/2026

Priority patient with 11 to the hospital. On the I-81 Truck crash radio: oxygen cylinders, a cardiac arrest, deputies’ cruisers on fire, and a fire ground that ran out of water.

At 20:09 Thursday the first call into Frederick County was a vehicle striking a semi on I-81 southbound near the Route 37 interchange. Within minutes units were reporting a tractor-trailer rolled over in the median, on fire, hauling oxygen cylinders that were venting and exploding into the roadway,....

He Was Playing a Game in a Commercial Truck. Two People Died. Now He’s Getting Six Years.
09/11/2026

He Was Playing a Game in a Commercial Truck. Two People Died. Now He’s Getting Six Years.

On the night of July 19, 2022, a semi-trailer crossed into a construction zone on Highway 30 in Brossard, Quebec, and never slowed down. The agreed statement of facts filed in a Longueuil courthouse this past April tells you exactly why: the driver was playing an online game on his cellphone, the ei...

Brenda Watson Deserved Better Than a Cartoon
09/11/2026

Brenda Watson Deserved Better Than a Cartoon

Brenda Watson, 50, of West Union, Ohio, died on the shoulder of U.S. 68 in Pleasant Township on the night of September 2. Then a shouting match between Cabinet officials and California's governor tells you a great deal about the policy fight that was already underway before she left her driveway.

The Trucking Network That Ran Co***ne to Atlanta for a Decade Closed Its Last Case on September 9
09/11/2026

The Trucking Network That Ran Co***ne to Atlanta for a Decade Closed Its Last Case on September 9

A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced Roberto Lopez, the domestic logistics head for a cartel co***ne network that moved up to 300 kilograms a week through American trucking, to 18 years and 10 months in federal prison on September 9, 2026. The case has been open since 2009. Lopez spent more than a d...

The Formula One Ring: How a Lake Worth Couple Allegedly Turned $10 Cans Into a $1.1 Million Operation
09/11/2026

The Formula One Ring: How a Lake Worth Couple Allegedly Turned $10 Cans Into a $1.1 Million Operation

A Lake Worth couple allegedly ran a paid network of boosters across eight Florida judicial circuits, clearing formula shelves at Publix, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Winn-Dixie and reselling the product out of a non-air-conditioned warehouse in Davie. Investigators say they cleared $1.1 mill...

153 million license scans hit the dark web. Some were CDLs.
09/11/2026

153 million license scans hit the dark web. Some were CDLs.

A dark web service called Nexus claimed more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license scans, many with the infrared and ultraviolet images used to prove a card is real. Some records were tagged CDL. The FBI's New Orleans field office is looking at IDScan.net, a Louisiana company that also...

11 more diesel pardons. The warrants are splitting shops from the men who owned them.
09/11/2026

11 more diesel pardons. The warrants are splitting shops from the men who owned them.

The Sept. 3 clemency batch cleared Oregon shop owner Travis Turner but left the conviction of the company he pleaded alongside standing. Across seven emissions cases, the diesel pardons have landed on one side of the defense table and not the other.

A Restaurant Owner, Two Government Clerks, and a Federal Database: How 124 People Got CDLs Without Earning Them
09/10/2026

A Restaurant Owner, Two Government Clerks, and a Federal Database: How 124 People Got CDLs Without Earning Them

Mahmoud Alhattab charged applicants roughly $5,000 a head to skip every mandatory step of the CDL qualification process, knowledge test, entry-level training, skills test. Prosecutors say at least 124 people got licenses. Many couldn't speak English. On September 10, 2026, the Justice Department ann...

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