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Borderlands: Mexico
Borderlands Mexico: US widens Mexican cartel crackdown to tequila makers, baby shoe company
This week in Borderlands Mexico: US widens Mexican cartel crackdown; Port Houston posts record first-half container volume; and Foundry Commercial plans logistics center in Fort Worth.
Truckload Indexes
Shippers face tighter capacity as trucking rates hold near record highs
American Shipper
New test program puts nuclear container ships on the horizon
Trucking Regulation
FMCSA says no to epilepsy exemptions after years of yes
Latest Headlines
Montgomery v. Caribe
CDL Issues
The Playbook
The Playbook
Georgia Is Building 41 Miles of Toll-Free, Truck-Only Lanes on I-75. GDOT Thinks Nearly Every Truck Will Use Them.
Georgia is moving ahead with an idea that most of the country has only talked about: a stretch of interstate where the trucks get their own road. The Georgia Department of Transportation has released a construction timeline for its I-75 Commercial Vehicle Lanes project, and the plan is concrete. Design work will be finalized and […]
Playbook: Cash & Capital
BasicBlock acquires TrueNorth, expands beyond finance
SONAR High Frequency Data
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Inside SONAR
SONAR Launches Accepted Truckload Volume Index to Close the Gap Between Tendered and Moving Freight
Tender acceptance rates have long signaled stress in the truckload market — but until now, users had no direct index tracking the volume of freight that actually cleared that process and moved. SONAR’s new Accepted SONAR Truckload Volume Index (ASTVI) fills that gap. The dataset family isolates accepted truckload demand by stripping out rejection activity, […]
More from SONAR
SONAR Upgrades Batch Rate Intelligence Into a Full RFP Pricing Engine
SONAR this week released a significant upgrade to Batch Rate Intelligence, expanding the feature from a bulk lane analysis tool into what the company describes as a complete RFP pricing workflow.
USDOT signs on as a customer of SONAR’s high frequency freight market data
The US Department of Transportation has signed a deal to receive high-frequency freight market data from SONAR.
Calling devs: SONAR launches Driver App Shortage Hackathon
FreightWaves SONAR will launch its first virtual Driver App Shortage Hackathon on June 15-22 to address the lack of software built primarily for truck drivers.
Chart of the Week
Chart of the Week
Why do tender lead times keep climbing
A quiet indicator of supply chain strategy shifts, the tender lead time is telling us many things about how shippers are feeling about transportation markets.
Chart of the Week
Intermodal’s historic growth
Chart of the Week
How much is trade policy influencing imports?
Chart of the Week
How long will this truckload market cycle last?
Chart of the Week
LTL’s paper gains
Trade War
Healthcare Logistics
Trump’s tariff on drugs targets one of the world’s most globalized supply chains
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News
$139M drug bust exposes broker-style cross-border trucking operation
Project Bay uncovered 973 kilograms of suspected cocaine, 660 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine and 17 firearms. Authorities charged 21 people with 104 offenses.
Last-Mile Delivery
Weak housing market hurts big and bulky last-mile delivery
Railroad
First look: Union Pacific earnings
Autonomous Vehicles
Aurora races toward scale with new driverless hardware
American Shipper
Technology
How HERE boosts AI route optimization with a reasoning layer
HERE Technologies is pairing AI route optimization with a reasoning layer that explains dispatch decisions and a tool that learns from drivers in the field.
American Shipper
Walkout by union dockworkers shuts down Oakland terminals
American Shipper
Alaska Air to acquire 4 cargo jets, base some in Hawaii
American Shipper
Feds plan nuke power on ships at top US container port
Modern Shipper
E-commerce & Fulfillment
Maersk to run $100M Boston fulfillment center for large retailer
Maersk will fulfill orders for the Northeast region for a large e-commerce seller from a new Boston facility.
Last-Mile Delivery
DoorDash teams with Shopify on delivery for small retailers
E-commerce & Fulfillment
Australia Post named delivery partner for Vinted’s Australia launch
Last-Mile Delivery
