Identity development is not limited to adolescence, a recent study from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, shows. Researchers found that identity developed positively from age 27 to 61. A more positively developed identity was associated with higher levels of mental well-being.
AITO will start selling cars in Europe in the fall of 2027. The Chinese luxury SUV brand, built by Seres with Huawei’s technology, confirmed the timing at the Paris Motor Show today, where it showed the AITO 9, 8, 7, and 6. AITO sold 426,000 vehicles in 2025, more than any other Chinese luxury brand. Now it has a date for Europe. But you won’t find the word “Huawei” anywhere in its Paris press kit. more…
Formula 1’s lengthy 2026 season is entering its final stretch. The sport took to the floodlit streets of Singapore on Sunday night, but Saturday saw action, too; this Grand Prix weekend was also the final of six sprints this year. The night race might be one of modern F1’s greatest spectacles. From overhead shots, the track becomes a bright, illuminated ribbon among the looming darkness of the city-state’s overpasses and skyscrapers. At ground level, the cars shower glittering sparks from their titanium skid blocks as the drivers flirt with how close they can get to the walls. As tracks go, the 90-degree turns and concrete barrier-lined streets were a world away from the abrasive tarmac and ample runoff of Malaysia last time out. But the tropical heat and humidity were a constant given both locations’ proximity to the equator. Showers for the sprint In Malaysia (which was still technically the Bahrain GP), a pre-race downpour disrupted things mightily. On Saturday morning in Singapore, shortly before the start of the sprint, it seemed history was about to rhyme when the skies opened. With standing water in places on the track, the sprint was delayed by 30 minutes. The sprint format, where a short extra race replaces a practice session a day before the main event, is unloved by the drivers and teams. For one thing there’s little prestige in winning Saturday’s sprint. And with qualifying just a few hours later, risk-taking is discouraged lest one wreck the car and ruin Sunday’s race a day early. Oh no, not again! Credit: Mark Thompson/Getty Images And in Singapore, like most street circuits, the proximity of the unyielding barriers that line the track mean there are real, punishing consequences for getting it even a little wrong.Read full article Comments
Freight fraud can leave victims wondering whether anyone else has faced the same attack. Stolen identities, deceptive pickups and double brokering can strike businesses across transportation. Many companies never publicly discuss what happened afterward. Freight Fraud Awareness Day wants to change that. Freight Fraud Awareness Day returns Oct. 14 with advocates across transportation and insurance. This year’s campaign focuses on education, awareness and advocacy. Organizers encourage open dialogue about criminal schemes, industry impacts and available prevention resources. Verified Carrier, Truckstop, Northland Insurance, Travelers, GenLogs, FreightValidate and Freight Bites support the effort. Andrey Drotenko, president of strategic relations at Verified Carrier, discussed the campaign in a September interview with FreightWaves. “It’s a moment to slow down, compare notes, and just act together,” Drotenko explained. Participants can discuss incidents without revealing safeguards criminals might exploit. That approach allows useful intelligence to circulate while protecting sensitive procedures. This marks the third annual Freight Fraud Awareness Day. FreightWaves covered the inaugural campaign in October 2024. Early efforts focused on building awareness around transportation scams. Organizers plan new opportunities for professionals to share expertise in coming years. ‘It’s not just me’ Drotenko compared fraud victims with friends discovering they share similar struggles. Another person might reveal an experience that suddenly feels familiar. “Oh, it’s not just me,” he recalled. That realization reflects the campaign’s push for more open dialogue across transportation. Gary Thomas, manager of risk and mitigation at SPG Cargo & Logistics, has watched criminal tactics evolve. Traditional offenders once needed physical proximity to targeted freight. Digital tools now allow identity manipulation from almost anywhere. Modern security providers must counter methods that barely existed a decade ago. “We went from a traditional bad guy waiting at the truck stop,” Thomas explained. Criminals can now “digitally manipulate somebody’s identity and the supply chain.” Technology has changed the threat facing commercial transportation. “By working together we hope to bridge that gap.” Criminal methods keep changing Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Gerardo Pachuca has watched offenders exploit transportation knowledge. “Cargo theft has been exploding,” Pachuca explained. Some criminals understand legitimate operations before turning that experience against businesses. “They know how to exploit and misuse those loopholes on the dark side of the industry.” Federal investigators are seeing similar threats. The FBI’s Memphis Cargo Theft Task Force has warned that cyber-enabled schemes allow criminals to identify valuable shipments before arriving for pickup. Those tactics demonstrate how deception can turn legitimate freight movements into theft opportunities. Chuck Forsaith, vice president of the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition, has witnessed another shift. Earlier cases often involved thieves physically taking merchandise. Modern schemes increasingly rely on deception instead. Pharmaceutical losses create additional risks when stolen products return to legitimate commerce. “Back then it was almost exclusively what we would call straight theft,” Forsaith explained. Today’s methods depend more heavily on some form of fraud. Criminals may ignore required quality controls after taking pharmaceutical products. “That can significantly impact the integrity of the products once they are reintroduced into a supply chain.” Freight Fraud Awareness Day gives transportation professionals an opportunity to bring those experiences into the open. Companies can discuss what happened without exposing every security measure protecting their operations. Those accounts may reveal threats another business has never encountered. They can also remind victims of something much simpler. It’s not just me. Why It Matters Criminals benefit when fraud stays hidden. Sharing real incidents can expose patterns, close information gaps and help stop the same scheme from hitting someone else. CFCO In my opinion, awareness matters most when professionals know what to do next. The FreightWaves Certified Fraud Compliance Officer course turns fraud prevention into a repeatable verification process. Training helps teams question inconsistencies, recognize warning signs and make stronger decisions before freight moves. A consistent approach can stop one overlooked detail from becoming an expensive loss. Click here for more articles on cargo theft and freight fraud by Phil Brink. Man gets 2 years for $3.5M Amazon fraud using 23 trucking accounts – FreightWaves LAPD uncovers $1M in stolen BNSF and Union Pacific rail cargo at Los Angeles–area shoe retailer – FreightWaves Thieves clone $60K shipment, redirect 41,000 pounds of glycerin in Illinois – FreightWaves The post Freight Fraud Awareness Day returns as strategic cargo theft reshapes trucking appeared first on FreightWaves.
The results of the Lehigh Business Supply Chain Risk Management Index for the fourth quarter of 2026 show a slight decrease from last quarter's sharp jump in overall risk. Transportation disruption risk remained the highest-rated category, down from its record high in the third quarter but still well above its three-year average.
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Many transportation executives seem to place vehicle compliance in the same mental category as expense reports and badge renewals. It’s necessary, but it’s largely forgettable and delegated to the back office. That might have made sense when fleets were smaller and simpler, but it breaks down as soon as a fleet crosses state lines, adds vehicles faster than it adds people, or absorbs another company’s assets through acquisition. Registrations, titles, taxes, permits, credentials, filings, and renewals aren’t paperwork about the fleet. They’re the legal condition the fleet operates under. A truck that’s fueled, inspected, and road-ready but sitting on an expired registration isn’t a viable fleet asset for a customer waiting on a load. It’s unavailable for an inexcusable reason. Scale and geography multiply the complexity of vehicle compliance in ways that are easy to underestimate. Every additional state brings its own agency, its own deadlines, its own exceptions, and its own system quirks. A fleet that operates in five states is managing five sets of rules that rarely line up; a fleet that operates in thirty is managing a level of administrative complexity that requires a lot more than simple back-office delegation. “Leading fleets are not focused on compliance alone; they are focused on operational continuity,” said Stephanie Schmidt, Vice President of Client Service at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. “Expert-led vehicle compliance can reduce administrative burden, improve visibility into fleet assets, and help ensure critical compliance activities are executed consistently. As an example, outsourcing vehicle compliance allows internal teams to stay focused on customers, growth, and day-to-day operations rather than managing complex regulatory processes.” Executives often underestimate how directly administrative compliance affects asset availability. A vehicle that is mechanically ready but administratively unable to operate is still an unavailable asset, turning what appears to be a paperwork issue into an operational and financial one. Compliance work absorbs more than clerical hours. It requires staff who understand deadline cadences across jurisdictions, who can validate data against agency requirements, who know how to chase down an agency that’s slow to respond, and who can handle the exceptions that don’t fit the standard process. That expertise takes years to build, and once it’s built, it’s rarely replaceable on short notice. The real cost shows up as opportunity cost. Every hour an experienced operations or safety employee spends untangling a title problem or a registration exception is an hour not spent on customers, growth initiatives, or operational priorities. Executives are left with a narrower set of choices than they’d like: add headcount, pull people off higher-value work, accept slower turnaround on renewals and filings, or absorb more risk. “Vehicle compliance extends well beyond renewals and registrations,” Schmidt said. “Each jurisdiction has its own requirements, timelines, processes, and regulatory nuances, making experienced professionals and established agency relationships difficult to replace. As organizations face turnover or staffing changes, having consistent access to dedicated specialists helps preserve consistency, reduce risk, and keep fleets operating legally and efficiently.” For growing fleets, the question is less whether compliance work gets done and more whether the organization has a sustainable model for executing it at scale. The fleets most exposed to compliance risk are often the ones that are otherwise performing well. They’re growing quickly, adding lanes, or expanding into new states. An inefficient process that worked cleanly when the fleet had a few hundred units and operated in a handful of states can show weak points at a few thousand units across dozens of jurisdictions. More vehicles mean more transactions, more renewal cycles, more exceptions, and more agency systems to navigate, each with its own quirks and requirements. Growth by acquisition compounds the problem. Research from the J. J. Keller Center for Market Insights found that 94% of transportation organizations encountered unexpected risks or complexities during a merger or acquisition, with documentation and recordkeeping among the most common challenges. An additional 93% reported significant concerns during the transaction process, including operational disruption and delays. Vehicle compliance often sits at the center of those risks because acquired assets must be integrated into existing compliance processes without interrupting operations. “One of the less visible challenges of an acquisition is ensuring every acquired asset can continue operating legally and without interruption,” Schmidt said. “Vehicle compliance becomes a business continuity issue when fleets inherit different registration practices, title-management processes, and state requirements. Experienced partners and proven processes can help protect operational continuity during periods of rapid growth and change.” Institutional knowledge is one of the hardest things to scale. The person who knows why a particular state handles a filing differently, or which agency contact to call when a renewal stalls, is difficult to replace, and nearly impossible to replicate quickly when a fleet doubles in size or absorbs a new set of jurisdictions overnight. The consequences of a compliance breakdown rarely stay contained to the back office. A missed renewal can delay dispatch on a load that’s already been sold. An incomplete filing can turn into an urgent, all-hands correction. An expired credential can create exposure at a roadside inspection that costs far more in downtime and driver disruption than the filing itself would have. None of these show up on a compliance dashboard until they’ve already become an operations problem like downtime, rework, lost productivity, customer complaints, and lost time and revenue associated with each. The cost of noncompliance includes the cost of interruption, and those costs can compound in unpredictable ways. A delayed load, for instance, can cost a customer relationship or reputation. Disaster preparedness is a subset of this same risk, especially as it pertains to proper storage and handling of documentation. “Vehicle titles are among the most critical documents tied to a fleet, yet many organizations store them across multiple offices, filing systems, or locations,” Schmidt said. “Secure offsite title management helps protect these assets from loss, damage, theft, or natural disaster while keeping records accessible when needed. As part of a broader risk-management strategy, it gives leaders confidence that ownership documentation remains protected during unforeseen events.” None of this means every fleet should outsource compliance. It means every fleet should evaluate whether its current approach can reliably support growth, turnover, and increasing regulatory complexity. An internal model works when an organization can sustain the specialization, staffing depth, and backup coverage that multi-jurisdiction compliance demands. A hybrid model keeps core ownership in-house while routing high-volume, specialized, or exception-heavy work to outside support. A fully externally supported model makes sense when predictable execution, geographic reach, or scalable capacity are difficult to maintain internally, especially through growth or turnover. The goal in any of these arrangements should be to strengthen execution wherever the organization’s internal model is stretched thin. Executives should be asking these questions: Does current staffing have the capacity to absorb deadlines, exceptions, and growth? Is the team’s jurisdictional expertise deep enough to survive turnover? What level of risk is acceptable when work is delayed or done incorrectly? How exposed is asset availability to an administrative failure? Can the current model scale as the fleet’s footprint changes? And where should internal expertise be concentrated for the greatest return to the business? Vehicle compliance is no longer a back-office function for complex, multi-state fleets. It is a business capability that directly influences fleet readiness, growth, and risk. The strongest operating model is the one that gives leaders confidence that vehicles can remain legally available to serve customers as the business evolves. Click here to learn more about J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc. The post The Hidden Business Risk Inside Fleet Compliance appeared first on FreightWaves.
