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.

For most of the last decade, “visibility” in freight has meant knowing where a truck is right now. Carriers connected their ELDs and brokers and shippers plugged into telematics feeds. The industry mostly stopped relying on calling drivers to ask for a location. That shift eliminated an enormous amount of manual work, and it’s now […]

Artificial intelligence has become the loudest conversation in trucking, promising faster compliance checks, deeper video analytics, and instant answers to complex regulatory questions. But according to Rustin Keller, President and CEO of J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., the technology’s growing footprint hasn’t changed who’s ultimately accountable when something goes wrong.   “AI is going to accelerate business, […]

For the past several years, many fleets have viewed trailer capacity as a lever they could pull as conditions changed—adding units when freight improved and returning them when demand softened. According to Ed Behnen, Senior Vice President of Sales at Premier Trailer Leasing, that flexibility is becoming far less available. Behnen joined Malcolm Harris on […]

ShipStation Global CEO Tom Madine explains the thinking behind the platform’s newly launched LTL offering and the broader push to bring parcel, freight and truckload under one roof. Enterprise customer Toyota Racing Development and SMB spice brand Spiceology illustrate what that looks like in practice.

Dave Slade, principal biofuels scientist at Chevron, discusses the various fuels available to fleets, benefits and considerations for alternative fuel options like CNG, what fleet operators need to know about biodiesel blends over B20, and how qualified fleets may participate in a natural gas truck demo program at no cost. 

When FreightWaves launched the AI Excellence in Supply Chain Awards, the goal was to cut through the noise of an industry where “AI” has become a marketing buzzword slapped on every press release, and instead spotlight the companies that are leveraging AI in truly revolutionary ways.  The awards recognize real deployments and measurable outcomes as […]

FreightWaves Today broadcast live from the Westin in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Univar Solutions’ annual Carrier Kickoff event, where roughly 100 transportation providers and more than 200 attendees gathered alongside Univar Solutions’ procurement and operations leadership for a supplier conference built around the fact that relationships, not just rates, win freight when trucks get scarce.

Loaded and Rolling host Thomas Wasson sat down with Sean Dehan, vice president of strategy and corporate development at Truckstop, to discuss where market pressure and regulation have led the freight industry when it comes to combatting fraud.

DeepDetectAI is Intelligent Audit’s proprietary machine learning system built to catch subtle shipping errors and fraud deeply buried inside millions of transportation transactions.