The scramble is over. Carriers and owner-operators who spent the past few years chasing build slots, paying inflated prices for used units and taking whatever iron they could find are now facing a different problem: plenty of options and very little margin for a bad decision. Lead times have stabilized, used pricing has found a […]
Every carrier with a safety technology program eventually learns the same lesson: the hardware is the easy part. Cameras can be mounted, collision mitigation can be specified on new tractors, and telematics can be switched on. What’s harder to install is the belief, among people who spend their working lives behind the wheel, that the […]
When a shipper puts an LTL lane out to bid, price is the number everyone can compare in five minutes. Price, however, doesn’t say much about what happens six months into the contract. A rate quote doesn’t indicate whether a shipment arrives on the dock when it’s supposed to, whether the weight matches the bill […]
Larry Cothran did not set out to become what he now calls the number one trucking content creator in the world, he set out to post one video a day and then simply refused to stop, and that stubborn daily discipline, showing up on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube every single day for more than three […]
For a small carrier, the choice of whether to own a trailer, finance one, run power only, or rent by the day looks like a simple equipment question, but it is really a business decision with a cost structure attached to every option, and getting that math wrong is one of the quietest and most […]
As AI tools multiply across freight and logistics, the important question is how much control to hand over, and to what. On the latest Lean Quarterly Dive, host Malcolm Harris sat down with Lean Solutions Group CTO Alfonso Quijano to unpack that question. “experts in the loop,” a model that treats human judgment Quijano didn’t […]
123Loadboard and Direct Freight are combining two independent freight marketplaces so brokers can close capacity gaps and carriers can find better-matched freight. Vice President of Sales Carmelo Messina explains why the industry’s biggest problem is still the loads that don’t get covered.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means freight brokers can face state liability claims for their selection of carriers. For carriers, that shift turns a documented safety program from a compliance nicety into a competitive credential. In an upcoming webinar, Lytx® outlines the elements of a defensible safety record.
Trucking shouldn’t just offer somebody a seat. It should offer them a future, better skills, better opportunities, and more money and choices. That was the premise Werner Enterprises Senior Director of Driver Recruiting Ben Pile brought to his recent appearance on Brake Check with host Charles Gracey. Pile has spent 23 years in driver recruiting, […]
Years of pricing volatility in trucking insurance are pushing more fleets toward captives and other alternative risk structures. Reliance Partners Senior Vice President of Sales Frank Kneeland explains why the conversation is shifting from premiums to total cost of risk — and why timing the move matters as much as the structure itself.
Customers expect a Managed Transportation partner to run their freight reliably and cost efficiently. They should get more: experts who understand their network, bring ideas for making it better, and drive those changes. The scale and knowledge of their partner should work to their advantage. At Uber Freight, we call this Transportation Orchestration and it’s […]
As the freight industry heads into its highest-volume stretch of the year, the cargo theft numbers tell a deceptively reassuring story. Reported incidents fell sharply in the second quarter of 2026, down roughly a quarter from the year before. But losses over that same period more than doubled, to $304.6 million, with the average theft […]
As veteran dispatchers and ops managers age out of the workforce, small and mid-size freight operators are stuck running decades-old systems that never got the AI investment enterprise carriers did. Evos, an autonomous operation launching this fall, says it can capture that institutional knowledge and put it to work before it walks out the door.
New Descartes MacroPoint ELD+ feature has been rolled out to track a shipment’s ELD, trailer GPS, and driver mobile app simultaneously rather than picking a single source. Andrew Wimer, Associate General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes, joined FreightWaves’ What the Truck?!? to explain how the added redundancy closes visibility gaps, flags potential fraud, and keeps drivers in the loop.
As fleets scale across jurisdictions, vehicle compliance is ultimately about whether assets are legally available to operate, not whether the paperwork gets filed correctly. J. J. Keller’s Stephanie Schmidt explains why executives should treat compliance capacity as a resource-allocation decision.
Dotra Compliance, an AI-driven platform built to serve as a carrier’s “virtual compliance department,” is helping small and midsize carriers close the gap between regulatory volume and in-house resources. Co-founder David Vincent explains why, after a Supreme Court ruling reshaped broker liability, a clean compliance record has become as important to winning freight as avoiding fines.
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, […]
Last year’s RelayCon left the impression that small carriers had shown up to Las Vegas hungry, but this September something had shifted, because the carriers filling the hallways and breakout rooms weren’t just hungry anymore, they’d done their homework, they knew their numbers, and they came with a specific list of what they needed to […]
Interstate 35 has long been the connective tissue of the Texas Triangle, the artery that carries freight from the Mexican border through San Antonio and Austin on its way to Dallas-Fort Worth, the Midwest and beyond. As freight volumes climb and population growth adds more drivers to an already strained I-35 route, fleets are increasingly […]
Most shippers, by this point, tend to believe they have visibility into their cold chain. What “visibility” truly covers, though, is often little more than surface-level location data. The gap between knowing where a shipment is and knowing what happened to it along the way is where cold chain programs can come across some of […]
