When a shipper puts an LTL lane out to bid, price is the number everyone can compare in five minutes. Price, however, doesn’t say much about what happens six months into the contract. A rate quote doesn’t indicate whether a shipment arrives on the dock when it’s supposed to, whether the weight matches the bill […]

As AI tools multiply across freight and logistics, the important question is how much control to hand over, and to what. On the latest Lean Quarterly Dive, host Malcolm Harris sat down with Lean Solutions Group CTO Alfonso Quijano to unpack that question.  “experts in the loop,” a model that treats human judgment  Quijano didn’t […]

123Loadboard and Direct Freight are combining two independent freight marketplaces so brokers can close capacity gaps and carriers can find better-matched freight. Vice President of Sales Carmelo Messina explains why the industry’s biggest problem is still the loads that don’t get covered.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means freight brokers can face state liability claims for their selection of carriers. For carriers, that shift turns a documented safety program from a compliance nicety into a competitive credential. In an upcoming webinar, Lytx® outlines the elements of a defensible safety record.

Trucking shouldn’t just offer somebody a seat. It should offer them a future, better skills, better opportunities, and more money and choices. That was the premise Werner Enterprises Senior Director of Driver Recruiting Ben Pile brought to his recent appearance on Brake Check with host Charles Gracey. Pile has spent 23 years in driver recruiting, […]

Years of pricing volatility in trucking insurance are pushing more fleets toward captives and other alternative risk structures. Reliance Partners Senior Vice President of Sales Frank Kneeland explains why the conversation is shifting from premiums to total cost of risk — and why timing the move matters as much as the structure itself.

As the freight industry heads into its highest-volume stretch of the year, the cargo theft numbers tell a deceptively reassuring story. Reported incidents fell sharply in the second quarter of 2026, down roughly a quarter from the year before. But losses over that same period more than doubled, to $304.6 million, with the average theft […]

As veteran dispatchers and ops managers age out of the workforce, small and mid-size freight operators are stuck running decades-old systems that never got the AI investment enterprise carriers did. Evos, an autonomous operation launching this fall, says it can capture that institutional knowledge and put it to work before it walks out the door.

New Descartes MacroPoint ELD+ feature has been rolled out to track a shipment’s ELD, trailer GPS, and driver mobile app simultaneously rather than picking a single source. Andrew Wimer, Associate General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes, joined FreightWaves’ What the Truck?!? to explain how the added redundancy closes visibility gaps, flags potential fraud, and keeps drivers in the loop.

As fleets scale across jurisdictions, vehicle compliance is ultimately about whether assets are legally available to operate, not whether the paperwork gets filed correctly. J. J. Keller’s Stephanie Schmidt explains why executives should treat compliance capacity as a resource-allocation decision.

Dotra Compliance, an AI-driven platform built to serve as a carrier’s “virtual compliance department,” is helping small and midsize carriers close the gap between regulatory volume and in-house resources. Co-founder David Vincent explains why, after a Supreme Court ruling reshaped broker liability, a clean compliance record has become as important to winning freight as avoiding fines.

FreightWaves and G3 Logistics are hosting a free Oct. 15 webinar on the hidden costs eroding margin in packaged goods supply chains. Register now to learn how supply chain leaders are identifying, quantifying and governing the exceptions quietly draining capacity and profit.

Interstate 35 has long been the connective tissue of the Texas Triangle, the artery that carries freight from the Mexican border through San Antonio and Austin on its way to Dallas-Fort Worth, the Midwest and beyond. As freight volumes climb and population growth adds more drivers to an already strained I-35 route, fleets are increasingly […]

Most shippers, by this point, tend to believe they have visibility into their cold chain. What “visibility” truly covers, though, is often little more than surface-level location data. The gap between knowing where a shipment is and knowing what happened to it along the way is where cold chain programs can come across some of […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest Atlantic hurricane outlook is calling for a below-normal 2026 season. It’s welcome news, on its face, for any fleet that has spent years threading dispatch schedules around tropical storm warnings and coastal evacuations. According to Lytx®’s  2026 Road Safety Report, drawn from more than 341 billion miles […]

Freight’s cycle-ending forces are still stacking up, but Reliance Partners’ Chief Revenue Officer Thom Albrecht sat down with us to discuss why this one might last. Nearly 360 trucking, freight brokerage, and insurance professionals packed the Grand Hyatt Nashville for the 5th Annual Trucking Matters Seminar Series, Reliance Partners’ largest turnout yet for an event […]

Shipium’s Always On Audit swaps monthly invoice archaeology for real-time shipment forensics, using AI agents to catch billing errors before they ever hit an invoice. CEO Jason Murray and SVP Penny Allen explain how the system’s digital twin model is already flagging misapplied rates and surcharges for early customers.

FreightWaves and Waabi are hosting a free Sept. 29 webinar on how autonomous trucking is moving from pilot programs to predictable, scalable freight capacity. Register now to learn what the early mover advantage means for shippers, carriers and brokers.

LX Pantos President and CEO Lee Yong-ho discusses how the Korea-born logistics provider is building out its U.S. footprint, digital platforms and installation business as part of a broader push to become a top-tier global player. Lee also details the company’s contract logistics strategy, its priority overseas markets and its progress on sustainability commitments.

EAIGLE founder and CEO Amir Hoss joined FreightWaves to break down how the company’s computer vision platform is slashing gate dwell times and closing the yard’s long-standing data gap. Fresh off a growth funding round and 350% year-over-year growth, Hoss detailed how EAIGLE turns cameras yards already have into a fully automated, paperless gate-to-dock operation.