3PL and Brokerage

Editor’s note: This is a contributed commentary. It comes amid FMCSA’s ongoing revocation of registered ELDs over hours-of-service log manipulation and FreightWaves welcomes responses from other parties. An ELD connection has become an important part of how freight moves. Brokers use it tounderstand whether a carrier is operating, whether vehicles are associated with that carrier, […]

Radiant Logistics announced it has acquired the Dallas brokerage operations of Whitacre Logistics Services, an intermodal and over-the-road transportation unit that will become part of Radiant Road & Rail.

(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) As if C.H. Robinson did not have enough going on with its recent acquisition announcement with RXO, six trucking companies sued the global 3PL as well as Total Quality Logistics in Texas federal […]

On the day after the C.H. Robinson-RXO deal was announced, Wall Street positive, S&P is cautious.

Einride has two cabless electric trucks running daily for EASE Logistics in Ohio, a test case for whether autonomy can absorb unplanned short-haul freight.

In a move that may have been foreshadowed by strong upward stock movement Thursday and Friday, C.H. Robinson, the country’s biggest 3PL, is getting a lot bigger by acquiring RXO. The transaction was announced Monday morning.  RXO’s (NYSE: RXO) stock price had risen sharply Thursday and Friday, with it rising Friday by $2.02, a gain […]

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, […]

A new lawsuit charges C.H. Robinson and TQO with RICO-prohibited actions.

This article is contributed content from an independent writer. It does not represent the views or opinions of FreightWaves or any of its subsidiaries.  A trucking company hauling an Amazon Prime trailer had lost its operating authority, returned to service and accumulated safety violations before a crash injured three people on a New Mexico interstate, […]

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 […]

At a leading logistics M&A conference, the value of humans as brokers gets a boost.

Radiant Logistics beat fiscal fourth-quarter expectations due to a solid performance in its international business and a tightening domestic surface transportation market, which is expected to more meaningfully boost results moving forward.

This article is contributed content from an independent writer. It does not represent the views or opinions of FreightWaves or any of its subsidiaries. Dalilah Coleman was riding with her stepfather, Michael Krause, when their car stopped for road construction on a California highway. A tractor trailer struck them from behind, leaving the child and […]

Oral arguments were heard last week in the broker transparency case of Pink Cheetah vs. TQL.

Spartan Logistics announced it has acquired Allen Logistics, adding 100,000 square feet of space to its asset-based network of over 20 dry storage and food-grade warehouses.

Score a victory for TQL in a case involving broker liability.

Private equity firms have acquired 3PL Navajo Expedited, aiming to enhance its driver-vetting and pricing automation capabilities while pursuing complementary acquisitions.

It was a tech conference but C.H. Robinson’s legal battles were never too far away from the discussion.

Flexport has launched its first fulfillment operations outside the U.S. in Canada and the U.K., with continental Europe slated to follow in 2027.

Broker FitzMark has acquired United Transportation Services, which specializes in third-party logistics for trade shows.