Trucking

As spot rates tumble, shippers should consider rerunning their RFPs to lock down better prices.

Werner Enterprises continues to see solid contractual rate increases. However, it warned that newly minted carriers dependent on the spot market are likely in trouble.

TuSimple, the autonomous truck developer is delaying its purpose-built driverless truck to 2025 while slowing its roll in other areas.

Management from flatbed provider Daseke said April was “strong,” a continuation of the better-than-expected performance it recorded in the first quarter.

Freight forwarding, supply chain and express units see strong trade-related demand.

Paccurate raised $2.2 million to advance its cartonization and optimization platform.

Transportation capacity grew for the first time since May 2020, according to a monthly supply chain survey.

Expeditors suffered a serious cyberattack in the first quarter, with a loss of volume, but still managed to make more money than the first quarter of 2021.

Cummins Inc. expects to keep raising prices to stay ahead of inflation in the materials it buys for engines and powertrains.

Freight brokerage firm C.H. Robinson had its debt rating affirmed by Moody’s, with the agency seeing “disciplined” finances at the 3PL.

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The benchmark DOE/EIA retail diesel price is at its all-time high after an almost 35-cent increase in the number since last week.

Nikola is raising money to scale its production of electric trucks through sales of new stock and tapping an equity line of credit.

Locomation expects to be the first company to deploy autonomous trucking technology safely, legally and routinely in commercial operations at scale across the United States, starting next year.

Turbulent times in trucking in with record diesel prices cutting into the cost everything, plus pyrotechnic logistics

LTL trucker Saia set several first-quarter records in its earnings report, and it will add 10 to 15 new terminals this year.

The survival of electric pickup truck startup Lordstown Motors likely hinges on completing the plant sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn.

Craig Fuller explains the impact of higher diesel prices on the U.S. economy and consumers.

AskWaves: What happens when an 18-wheeler gets a flat?

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico’s heavy-duty truck exports slump in March; Solar component maker opens Texas production line; Trucks collide near downtown San Antonio; CBP seizes $35M worth of meth in shipment of strawberry puree.