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FedEx Dataworks is helping Stripe vet small businesses for working capital.

A new truck carries 100 to 150 small computers and is at its best the day it’s built. Coretura CEO Johan Lundén says a shared operating system can flip that.

Transfix has integrated E3 Group’s driver identity verification technology into its TMS, allowing brokers to verify drivers before releasing pickup numbers as freight fraud increasingly targets legitimate loads through deceptive pickups.

Einride has two cabless electric trucks running daily for EASE Logistics in Ohio, a test case for whether autonomy can absorb unplanned short-haul freight.

Hours-of-service relief can pay off on a regional LTL lane as well as coast to coast, Waabi COO Lior Ron said. Warp’s Dallas-Houston freight is the first test

Autonomous yard truck developer ISEE signed a partnership with Holman, one of its investors, to package truck leasing, retrofits and fleet services for customers.

Optimus Technology acquired SmartHop’s load and fleet management platform and plans to distribute it free through financial, insurance and logistics partners reaching tens of thousands of carriers.

YMX Logistics’ yard-management system uses computer vision to track trucks and trailers at distribution facilities, helping a grocery retailer investigate five short shipments and identify the truck and driver associated with the loads.

A truck out of service along the side of a highway with a service technician truck and warning beacons placed along the roadside edge

Geotab has launched a fleet card that uses vehicle telematics data to authorize fuel purchases, monitor spending and prevent unauthorized transactions. The company said diesel prices can vary by as much as 77 cents per gallon between stations in the same town.

As part of ongoing efforts to differentiate themselves from basic courier services, FedEx and UPS are promoting new and updated shipping security and risk intelligence tools designed to reduce losses and streamline claims processes.

PlusAI’s merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III values the autonomous trucking developer at $800 million, with $60 million committed ahead of a vote.

AI is not yet a help in fighting cybercrime but it definitely boosting the bad guys, a conference is told.

CEO Karin Rådström said the integrated setup differentiates Daimler Truck from every other player, as its Freightliner and Western Star brands hold 37.8% of the Class 8 market.

The trailers disappeared overnight from a Fremont, California, warehouse after their locks were broken. Police recovered them in nearby Newark the same afternoon, but investigators still don’t know who took them.

Descartes Systems Group has launched an AI agent within its Datamyne trade intelligence platform that allows users to search and analyze global shipment data using natural-language questions.

Flexport’s latest release pairs an MCP server for outside AI agents with a workforce of internal agents the company says handles 21 million tasks a year, plus Atlas and customs upgrades.

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 […]

Kodiak’s first unsupervised long-haul service will carry IKEA goods between Houston and Dallas later this year, after 750,000 autonomous miles with an observer in the seat.

Carriers avoid TMS migrations for good reason: data to move, integrations to replace, teams to prepare. Trimble says its four carrier systems will modernize without one.