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Cummins’ aggressive scaling of electrolyzers will need other players to meet expected midcentury hydrogen demand.

Inside the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: Your top-5 episodes of the year; FourKites cuts 15%; speed limiter push back

On Wednesday, FreightWaves hosted the Domestic Supply Chain Summit, a virtual event with RXO Chief Strategy Officer Jared Weisfeld as the keynote speaker. The interview, conducted by enterprise trucking carrier expert Thomas Wasson, included an outlook for 2024 and highlighted the biggest supply chain challenges and opportunities.

In this edition: Carriers are left with empty promises of payment; Yellow passes on a lifeline; and putting a book into action.

In this edition: RealCold makes acquisition moves; Lineage commits to slightly warmer frozen food; and McDonald’s tries something new.

The financial freezeout of startups by investors may be thawing as FOMU — the fear of messing up — begins to subside.

Payments network is seeing only modest levels of freight capacity exiting the market.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Monday published a notice in the Federal Register that the state of Florida is seeking an exemption to the CDL testing regulation pertaining to skills testing.

In this edition: Three intermodal companies form an alliance; DAT has zero tolerance; and Yellow’s legacy lives on.

In this edition: Lineage seeks an impressive IPO offering, pharma packaging gets a new present, and slightly less frozen may help frozen food.

The electric grid holds more potential for electric truck charging than utilities currently allow. A big rethink is under way.

On Wednesday the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released a report that examined causes and impacts of predatory heavy-duty towing. The report defined predatory towing in which “a T&R [towing and recovery] company egregiously overcharges, illegally seizes assets, damages assets by use of improper equipment, or illegitimately withholds release of a truck, trailer, and/or cargo.”

Consumers remain remarkably spendy in the face of rising debt balances.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: White House takes credit for the state of supply chains; Operation Santa needs you; and more.

In this edition: The Supreme Court is petitioned to rule on freight brokers and F4A, and it’s been a rough year for brokerages.

Israeli tech startups count on losing some employees to military reserve duty. Many more are called during wartime.

Holiday sports offer welcome reprieve from discouraging newsfeed.

FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack wrote an article on Wednesday outlining her experience attending a truck driver training conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the National Association of Publicly-Funded Truck Driving Schools (NAPFTDS). Premack sought to get more information on a fundamental disagreement in trucking that involves driver turnover and whether there is an ongoing driver shortage.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: will truckers pull their horns for a grown man; Thanksgiving costs; reefers rise; and more.

In this edition: Fraud takes no breaks for the holidays, it takes a lot of semi-trucks to move Thanksgiving, and lots of businesses can profit from the parcel rate wars.