Contract dry van rates rose every month since April to $2.39 a mile while spot slid to $2.17, reversing June’s inversion in the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index – Rates Edition.

A truck out of service along the side of a highway with a service technician truck and warning beacons placed along the roadside edge

More than 60 zero-emission truck models are on the market, Rådström said. Daimler Truck wants chargers, hydrogen stations and CO2-based tolls to catch up to them.

PlusAI’s merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III values the autonomous trucking developer at $800 million, with $60 million committed ahead of a vote.

Harbinger calls it one of the largest binding orders ever placed for medium- or heavy-duty electric trucks. All 2,000 units are slated for delivery by the end of 2027.

CEO Karin Rådström said the integrated setup differentiates Daimler Truck from every other player, as its Freightliner and Western Star brands hold 37.8% of the Class 8 market.

Flexport’s latest release pairs an MCP server for outside AI agents with a workforce of internal agents the company says handles 21 million tasks a year, plus Atlas and customs upgrades.

Kodiak’s first unsupervised long-haul service will carry IKEA goods between Houston and Dallas later this year, after 750,000 autonomous miles with an observer in the seat.

Carriers avoid TMS migrations for good reason: data to move, integrations to replace, teams to prepare. Trimble says its four carrier systems will modernize without one.

Aurora plans to exit 2026 with 200 driverless trucks and wants 30,000 by 2030. Werner, one of its driverless customers, said the economics only work once scale brings costs down.

Only 30% of Amazon sellers list in more than one country. Amazon’s fix is one inbound shipment, storage up to 45% below AWD and single-submission compliance testing.

Clarios is bringing Battery Manager to Europe after connecting about 1,100 vehicles, pitching fleets on a company-estimated $500 per truck per year in avoided battery costs.

Einride expects its footprint to reach 1,500 to 2,000 vehicles by 2028 and says about 80% of that demand is suitable for automation in the medium term.

The order is the largest for electric trucks in the U.S. to date, organizers say. Deployments will concentrate in 10 freight hubs from Los Angeles to Newark.

U.S. customers left roughly $2 billion in fuel savings on the table in the first six months of 2026, Samsara says. Its new product is built to go get it.

Optym shopped multiple transportation management systems before picking Alvys for its LoadOps customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Migrations are already underway.

Tavio, formed from a 2025 merger of two HR tech integration companies, is expanding into supply chain with Uber Freight already on its customer list.

Kodiak plans driverless highway runs by year-end. First it needs roadside inspectors to clear a truck with nobody in the cab

YardFlow has processed nearly 2 million shipments across 26 facilities. Its largest customer now wants the system in every one of its over 200 sites, including the smallest.

Tesla will run European Semi demonstrations in the first half of 2027 and is targeting customer deliveries by the end of the year, head of Semi Dan Priestley said.