3PL and Brokerage

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, […]

Freight companies do not usually show up on the front of a nationally televised basketball jersey. On August 18, 2026, one did. According to an announcement released by Tennessee Athletics, Axle Logistics, a third-party logistics company based in Knoxville, has been named the first official jersey patch partner in program history, with its logo appearing […]

One quarter of weekly releases produced 1,058 AI citations, turning a marketing chore nobody wanted into the cheapest visibility in logistics

AI-powered freight broker Fura announced it has acquired High Rise Logistics for an undisclosed sum.

Landstar says it has removed more than 35,000 carriers from its approved network over the past four years.

BlueGrace Logistics announced it has acquired Idaho-based 3PL Truk TMS.

Uber Freight remained unprofitable though revenue rose.

On the first earnings call since the Montgomery decision, RXO management focused on what it sees as a strength.

RXO’s earnings were a mixed back year-over-year and sequentially.

It may have been an earnings call, but there was a nuclear verdict at the center of C.H. Robinson’s earnings call.

Field Ventures led the seed round. Freight Hero charges brokers a flat fee per load and says AI agents handle more than 90% of customer load touches, with human operators on the rest.

C.H. Robinson said it hit its margin targets in the second quarter.

Landstar System said the truck brokerage market has begun to reshape in the wake of the Supreme Court’s broker liability ruling.

Wall Street sold off freight brokerage stocks following a nuclear verdict in Texas.

Uber Freight’s CTO says 95% of AI proofs of concept fail in production, not testing. Here’s how his team cut document processing work by more than half.

San Francisco-based Envoy AI is expanding its logistics platform with Ellie Workforce, designed to automate freight execution at enterprise scale.

(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) When I interviewed Michael Leizerman, the plaintiff attorney who won at the United States Supreme Court in the broker negligent selection case now reshaping freight litigation, I expected pushback from the audience. More […]

The SCOTUS decision stripped brokers of the federal preemption defense used for years to escape negligent carrier selection claims. Almost nobody is talking about the commercial leasing and rental companies that made the decision to hand a 33-ton vehicle to the carrier in the first place. Their legal shield was different and the Supreme Court published the map to it.

Argosy Private Equity announced that it acquired a controlling interest in third-party logistics provider K&L Freight Management.