Larry Cothran did not set out to become what he now calls the number one trucking content creator in the world, he set out to post one video a day and then simply refused to stop, and that stubborn daily discipline, showing up on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube every single day for more than three […]

The freight industry has spent years and real money chasing fraud, piling up more tracking, more data, and more awareness than it has ever had, and the losses keep climbing anyway, which is the paradox Michael Caney, Chief Customer Officer at the Carrier Identity® platform Highway, set out to unpack at the FreightWaves Broker Compliance […]

For the better part of eight months the price of diesel has climbed to levels that gasoline has not come close to matching, and for a carrier whose single largest variable cost is the fuel in the tank, that split is not a curiosity but a direct hit to the bottom line, which is why […]

For a small carrier, the choice of whether to own a trailer, finance one, run power only, or rent by the day looks like a simple equipment question, but it is really a business decision with a cost structure attached to every option, and getting that math wrong is one of the quietest and most […]

The way courts decide who is responsible when a contracted truck ends up in a wreck is changing faster than most of the freight industry realizes, and the shift is not about one ruling or one eye-popping dollar figure, it is a whole direction of travel that keeps pulling responsibility up the chain toward brokers […]

Somewhere in your truck right now, a connected system is quietly recording how it is driven, how hard it works, where it goes, and how healthy its engine is, and that stream of data is no longer just a maintenance convenience, it is becoming one of the most important numbers in your business, because at […]

One of the quieter but more consequential points to come out of a recent candid session with Daimler Truck leadership had nothing to do with financing or freight rates and everything to do with how the trucks themselves are being built right now, because the company made clear that it is already producing a Freightliner […]

For most of the last two decades, trucking could read the politics of its workforce fights along a familiar line, with one party broadly friendly to the independent contractor model and the other broadly skeptical of it, but according to the policy and legal experts who briefed an American Trucking Associations committee at the group’s […]

The trucking industry has fallen in love with two phrases that get tossed around in conference rooms and press releases without anyone stopping to explain them, and if you have heard the terms truck as a service and driver as a service and nodded along while quietly wondering what they actually mean for the money […]

On a rainy Saturday morning in Charlotte, inside the brand new North American headquarters of Daimler Truck Financial Services, four of the company’s senior leaders traded the usual press-conference script for something closer to a fireside chat, and over the better part of an hour they said more about where this industry is actually heading, […]

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 […]