>Freight brokers now control ≈⅓ of all loads and often award them to the lowest bidder, pushing spot rates below the cost of legal operation ... routinely run 14–20-hour days using tampered ELDs.

Is the sort of "innovation" you often hear here about when people say "EU can't innovate because of regulations"?

Tough timing for a condescending "why can't everyone's regulatory regimes just be like the EU" comment: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/after-years-controvers...

Regulations are only as good as the will of the enforcers. It would be trivial and cheap to use all the technology available today (GPS, broadband mobile networks, high definition cameras, image recognition) to enforce the laws, but the overwhelming political priority is keeping goods cheaper, at the expense of a few more collisions and casualties.

We have way fewer third world pedophile rape gangs though. Tradeoffs