3PL and Brokerage

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.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its broker transparency rulemaking to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on August 27, clearing the last internal checkpoint before publication and moving a document that had missed two target dates this year into the final stage of executive branch review. The listing shows the […]

Highway and Motive said in a joint statement that they have reached an agreement to restore the frequency at which Highway can access electronic logging device data belonging to Motive customers when carriers authorize that access, ending a disruption that began earlier after Motive limited the application programming interface connection between the two platforms and […]

Reported U.S. cargo theft incidents rose 5% in Q2, with California and Texas accounting for more than half of recorded cases. Electronics led targeted commodities, while Southern California remained a major cargo theft hot spot.

Highway notified its customers this week in an email communication, that Motive had imposed new limits on the integration between the two platforms, telling compliance leaders that the electronic logging device provider had begun restricting its application programming interface connection and had indicated Highway would need to compensate it for access to carrier data. The […]

There is a question hanging over the small carrier world right now, and two of the most knowledgeable transportation attorneys in the country did not flinch from it when they sat down separately on The Long Haul. The question is whether the small carrier, the one-truck owner-operator and the five-truck fleet, still has a viable […]

Mubadala Capital has acquired a majority stake in Austin, Texas-based freight brokerage Arrive Logistics.

A new report quoting one insurance executive has startling observations about broker insurance.

Freight broker RXO reported its truckload spot rate index posted its largest sequential gain in five years during the second quarter, with the strong momentum carrying into the third quarter.

Freight broker TMS provider Tai has been acquired by Descartes Systems Group in a $100 million deal announced on Monday.

For years, freight technology had been a solution looking for the industry to feel enough pain to adopt it. In 2021, the pain arrived. The pandemic-era supply chain crisis did in eighteen months what a decade of sales pitches could not. It took every abstract argument for digital freight tools, real-time visibility, capacity matching, automation, […]