If your trucks have been running the same heavy-duty diesel engine oil since roughly 2017, whether you manage a hundred-truck fleet, run a small operation of a few units, or own the one truck you drive yourself, that oil is about to be replaced by something new, because the American Petroleum Institute is rolling out […]

If you’ve spent the last year watching driverless trucks rack up miles on the lanes you used to run and felt something between anger and dread, that reaction is fair, it’s shared by most of the industry, and it isn’t paranoia, because the deployment timeline that always seemed to sit five years out has quietly […]

CHILLICOTHE, OH., Sept. 28, 2026 – Finalists for the 11th annual “Transition Trucking: Driving for Excellence” award were recently announced by Kenworth Truck Company, Fastport, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program. This distinguished award celebrates military veterans who have successfully transitioned into professional truck driving careers. Following a thorough nomination and review […]

The pitch for automated gate technology is almost always throughput, and the numbers are genuinely impressive, but a gate that clears a truck in three seconds is also a gate that has removed a human being from the one moment where somebody might have looked at a document and thought something about it felt wrong, […]

Back in May 2023 I called the Tesla Semi a glorified day cab with poor driver positioning and weak features. In July 2025 I said that outside of what it could do as an electric truck, it was never appealing from a driver’s standpoint, and that current cab configurations ran circles around it on comfort, […]

Tesla formally inaugurated its dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada on September 24, a 1.7 million square foot plant built adjacent to Gigafactory Nevada, and while the company framed the day as the start of high volume production, the first truck actually came off that line back in April, which makes this less a factory […]

Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food retailer with roughly CA$61 billion in annual revenue, has been running automated gate technology at what its transportation team describes as the flagship facility for its entire network, and the reason that designation matters is that the site was built to absorb a set of innovative projects rather than to […]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its broker transparency rulemaking to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on August 27, clearing the last internal checkpoint before publication and moving a document that had missed two target dates this year into the final stage of executive branch review. The listing shows the […]

Highway and Motive said in a joint statement that they have reached an agreement to restore the frequency at which Highway can access electronic logging device data belonging to Motive customers when carriers authorize that access, ending a disruption that began earlier after Motive limited the application programming interface connection between the two platforms and […]

Highway notified its customers this week in an email communication, that Motive had imposed new limits on the integration between the two platforms, telling compliance leaders that the electronic logging device provider had begun restricting its application programming interface connection and had indicated Highway would need to compensate it for access to carrier data. The […]

There is a question hanging over the small carrier world right now, and two of the most knowledgeable transportation attorneys in the country did not flinch from it when they sat down separately on The Long Haul. The question is whether the small carrier, the one-truck owner-operator and the five-truck fleet, still has a viable […]

Every experienced driver has a story about it, or knows someone who does. A truck follows a navigation app built for cars, and the app cheerfully routes it toward a bridge it cannot clear, a road it is too heavy for, or a turn it physically cannot make. The low-bridge strike is one of the […]

For years, freight technology had been a solution looking for the industry to feel enough pain to adopt it. In 2021, the pain arrived. The pandemic-era supply chain crisis did in eighteen months what a decade of sales pitches could not. It took every abstract argument for digital freight tools, real-time visibility, capacity matching, automation, […]

Freight companies do not usually show up on the front of a nationally televised basketball jersey. On August 18, 2026, one did. According to an announcement released by Tennessee Athletics, Axle Logistics, a third-party logistics company based in Knoxville, has been named the first official jersey patch partner in program history, with its logo appearing […]

Every year, Inc. magazine publishes its Inc. 5000, a ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America based on three-year revenue growth, and every year it doubles as a snapshot of where the money and momentum are moving. For 2026, the logistics and transportation category landed 167 companies on the list, and the collective numbers […]

You have probably noticed something strange lately. The news keeps saying oil prices are calm, even falling, with crude sitting below $100 a barrel. And yet your diesel fuel bill keeps climbing. That disconnect is not your imagination, and there is a single number that explains it. It is called the diesel crack spread, and […]

A legal battle now underway over the records of America’s truck drivers is being described very differently depending on who is doing the describing. The U.S. Department of Transportation calls it a “radical” effort by state attorneys general to shield dangerous drivers from the law. The states call it an unlawful federal seizure of the […]

Nominations for the 2027 FreightTech 100 close August 31. Nominate your company here. There was a time, and it was not long ago, when telling someone at a shipping conference that you worked in “freight tech” would get you a blank look. The freight industry had technology, of course. It had transportation management systems, some […]

A Business That Did Not Exist Yet In 1997, if a fleet needed a repair, the truck went to a shop. That was the entire menu. That was the year Bob Dickinson started what became Dickinson Fleet Services out of a small operation in Indianapolis, and his grandsons Kyle and Kevin Coltrain grew up around […]

What Was Announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Freedom Haulers, describing it as a patriotic hiring campaign to move veterans into trucking careers. The Department of Transportation leads it, with contributions from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Labor and the Department of War. The launch package included a digital ad, […]