Spend a day on any interstate in this country and you will lose count. Trucks rolling down the highway with the company name scrawled on the door in black marker. USDOT numbers handwritten so small you would have to be parked next to the truck to read them. Letters smeared, crooked, half peeled off, applied with a paint pen because the real decal never showed up and apparently never will. Magnetic signs curling at the corners or flapping in the wind, when they have not already blown off somewhere back on the highway and gone unreplaced for weeks. It is everywhere, and it is baffling, because there is no good reason for it. Every one of those trucks is rolling around with a compliance problem on full display, and every single one of those problems is avoidable. The markings on the side of a commercial motor vehicle are governed by a specific federal regulation, they are checked on routine inspections, and getting them wrong is one of the easiest ways for a small carrier to draw scrutiny it did not need. A new federal filing made on June 1, 2026 is a useful occasion to get clear on what the rules actually say, because the requirements are more specific than a lot of operators realize, and the casual approaches that are everywhere on the road do not meet them. Mr. @SecDuffy… I wanted to share real evidence of the challenges shippers and brokers have managing the foreign owned carriers committing…
