Even BMC-85 trust funds must now consist of cash or cash equivalents.

p44 is shipping software faster, with fewer people.

Journey offers freight brokerages recruiting, consulting, and training.

Ritchie Bros. say more carrier exits are needed to rebalance the trucking market.

Explore shipper sentiment and freight market trends in a soft October.

“The supply-demand balance may retrench in the coming months…”

Year-over-year rail volume growth is fading.

When adjusted for inflation, truck driver wages have grown 1.1% in 15 years.

The Shipper of Choice honors shippers committed to strategic carrier partnerships and ease of doing business.

AI and the return of incumbent companies drove this year’s list.

The American Chemistry Council has serious concerns about the impact to its members’ business.

Robinson announces its ‘Agentic Supply Chain.’

Robinson’s Asset Management System provides detailed, live data on trailers to brokers and their customers.

Enhancements include integrations, AI layers, new dashboards, better maps, and an iOS app.

Check out the full list of winners.

p44 dips its toes in strategic planning, financial forecasting, and shipment execution.

Data connectivity, ease of doing business, relationships, and facilities management all play a role.

project44 bets that its data can fuel the smartest TMS on the market.

Ancora wants CSX to focus on maximizing shareholder value at a critical moment.

In the first half of 2025, SC Codeworks’ freight activity data revealed the disruptive impact of tariffs on shipping patterns, marking a period of unpredictability for businesses involved in international trade. As shippers anticipated impending cost increases from tariffs, they adopted new strategies that emphasized consolidation of inventories and a subsequent slowdown in import activities. […]

Leading policy and technology experts will deliver keynotes.

Ancora built its position in Norfolk Southern in 2023 and 2024.

Tech and transportation providers among those honored.

Intermodal would be approximately 53% of a combined entity’s volume.

Intermodal, coal, and grains are driving Class I railroad traffic higher.

The deposits are in soft coal, making them economically feasible to develop.

Hotlanta’s tender rejections peaked at 11.2%.

SkyWater anticipates growing demand for domestically-sourced semiconductors.

Eliminating fuel fraud with unique QR codes and flexible business rules.

NOAA forecasts above-average activity for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season.

Tender rejections are at 6% and rising, two weeks before the holiday.

One of the thorniest processes in trucking logistics may have been solved.

AI-enabled decisioning is a long-awaited solution to information overload.

Data from shippers’ searches for capacity is piped into broker CRMs with CarrierSource’s newly launched Shipper Data Intent feature.

May Ling compares logistics to other components of the Producer Price Index.

The AI-focused partnership will usher in the next generation of industrial robotics.

The Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago freight markets are all tightening.

FreightWaves CEO and founder Craig Fuller analyzed the latest SONAR data on the State Street Markets podcast and says he’s upbeat about the freight market for the latter half of 2025.

The obscure clause in the reconciliation bill that could juice manufacturing investment.

The DOT is expediting infrastructure projects in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Tender rejections are already near last year’s July Fourth peak.

Integrating multimodal transportation data with inventory data is key.

Transportation providers and tech startups are among the winners of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighters Awards.

The Hobby Industry Coalition seeks targeted refinements to what it sees as crippling tariffs.

Warehousing and storage jobs were the bright spot in March as inventories swelled.

Penske, US Xpress, UPS, and more are in already planning workforce reductions.

The Trump administration eases tariffs on auto industry metals, offering relief to U.S. automakers and suppliers through exemptions and reimbursement incentives.

Chinese sellers are now forced to play by the same rules as U.S.-based vendors.

The country’s most reliable source of freight is slowing down.

Freight forwarders focused on the trans-Pacific are in pain.

America must forge its own path to reindustrialization.

Walmart benefits if the tariffs cut out Temu and Shein.

China-to-U.S. freight has been hit especially hard by President Trump’s tariffs.

Trade policy and industrial policy must work together for reindustrialization.

Ten-year Treasury yields fell below 4% in a classic flight to safety.

Traders and brokers are seizing on arbitrage opportunities.

Hyundai will increase production to >1M units per year and build a steel plant.

The cloud-based TMS provider was founded in 2013.

Tech companies have pledged to invest more than $1 trillion in the U.S. in recent months.

More than $1B has been invested in recent months in U.S. electrical power equipment manufacturing capacity.

Industrial production has grown 1.5% since the summer of 2007.

Utility power production during cold weather was behind the growth in industrial production in January.

Union Pacific might be running the smoothest rail network.

Can protectionism work again?

China’s share of U.S. manufactured goods imports is falling, while Vietnam’s and Mexico’s are rising.

Truckload shipments spike into New Orleans ahead of Sunday’s showdown between the Chiefs and Eagles.

Border security is just as important to Trump as trade imbalances.

President Trump wants to resurrect American shipbuilding. What’s at stake?

How bad can it get for cross-border?

Norfolk Southern COO John Orr has the railroad running tighter and faster.

Why America will build out more nuclear power plants.

Chicago and Dallas tender rejections still exceed 7%.

Container volumes have not slowed in January, blowing out year-over-year comps.

Will the U.S. be able to produce 100,000 artillery shells every month?

Oil prices are expected to gradually soften on loose supply.

The cost of energy is driving productive capital out of Germany.

Bond yields are falling and GDP growth is weakening in China as exporters cut prices.

Severe winter weather and strong restaurant performance are keeping reefer hot.

We dive into data upstream of industrial production.

Eastbound trans-Pacific container spot rates just broke $5,900 — here’s why.

Susquehanna has upgraded JBHT, KNX, CHRW and HUBG to “Positive.”

Spending exceeded expectations, sending tender rejections higher than they’ve been in years.

Intermodal volumes are robust, even past peak retail season. What does it mean for 2025?

SONAR data will power Transfix’s predictive rating models for freight brokers.

Intermediaries and incumbents roared back in the FreightTech 25 rankings during a protracted soft market for freight.

Fast, accurate freight market data is critical in periods of volatility.

MyCarrier asked a Delaware judge to stop project44 from cutting off visibility data to MyCarrier.

We solved the mystery of carrier resilience during the long downcycle.

The bleak first quarter of 2024 looks much like 2023 for freight brokerages.

A key ocean container spot rate benchmark dropped nearly 18% this week.

Will shippers pull forward freight to avoid East Coast port labor disputes?

ZPMC’s cranes appear to be part of a global digital surveillance effort on the part of the Chinese.

Intermodal at Savannah posted its strongest February ever.

Spot rates are back above breakeven and Zim’s costs are falling.

Expeditors makes less money than it did five years ago.

How do you spend $41 billion without buying more ships?

Lower inventories in the U.S. are pulling freight into the country.

Venture capitalists have plenty of dry powder but they’re being choosier.

Edge continues to win new business on the back of a regional carrier strategy.

Prospective acquirers are looking at Convoy’s platform and engineering and product teams.