Trucking

FedEx has named more executives to lead the divestment of the Freight subsidiary and run it as an independent company.

Regulators are giving thousands of truck drivers relief from work-hour rules to prevent fireworks shows around the country from fizzling out.

Estes Forwarding Worldwide said it was targeted by a cyberattack in May, but reports “no significant disruption.”

Milton, Pennsylvania-based logistics company Patton Logistics Group has announced it will purchase Milton Transportation and Warehousing and its sister company, BTR Inc.

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As nearshoring efforts accelerate, shippers are increasingly rethinking their cross-border strategies. Unlike transporting goods across state lines, cross-border shipping demands specialized expertise, robust infrastructure and comprehensive security measures. To fully capitalize on the advantages of nearshoring, companies need partners who understand that success hinges on more than just moving trucks –– it requires mastery of […]

FedEx said its newly streamlined air cargo network helped it adjust to tariff-induced demand fluctuations and make a profit during its latest quarter.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is intensifying enforcement of English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards, signaling major operational changes for the trucking industry. As of today, June 25, 2025, drivers who fail to meet these requirements face immediate grounding, potentially straining trucking capacity, increasing tender rejections, and driving up national truckload rates. FreightWaves estimates […]

Relay Payments has extended its reach into maintenance with three new partnerships.

FedEx has permanently parked 12 cargo jets as it aligns the fleet with shipping volumes to control costs.

Amazon is ramping up Same-Day and Next-Day delivery for small towns, rural areas.

Tender rejections are at 6% and rising, two weeks before the holiday.

FedEx founder Fred Smith is being remembered as a legend in the freight transportation industry after his death on Saturday. Former FedEx employees have many stories about how Smith built the FedEx airline from scratch.

FedEx has named a new chairman after founder Fred Smith died over the weekend.

Justice Department press release describes violations of several FMCSA rules by Shaquan Jelks; magistrate order on detention spells out some of the details.

This week in Borderlands Mexico: Supply chain firms invest in new cross-border facilities; Japanese industrial supplier investing $5M in Mexico expansion; and Benchmark Electronics opens manufacturing facility in Guadalajara, Mexico.

FedEx founder Fred Smith died Saturday with a legacy as a great U.S. entrepreneur.

GXO Logistics has announced Patrick Kelleher as the new CEO and received approval for its Wincanton acquisition.

Grand jury indicts seven men on charges they targeted trucks for robberies.

New legislation would mandate that all truck drivers be tested for proficiency in speaking and reading English before being allowed on the road.

Attorneys in a $5 million Illinois trucking accident settlement hope their case brings safer changes to roadways.

DHL Express Canada was forced to suspend operations Friday. The company wants the government to override a new law prohibiting the use of replacement workers.

Canada Post has agreed to a new contract with its rural postmasters, but remains at loggerheads with its largest union.

Volvo Group and Daimler Truck have officially launched Coretura, a joint venture dedicated to developing a standardized software-defined vehicle platform for commercial vehicles.

One of the thorniest processes in trucking logistics may have been solved.

Freight fraud has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and financially devastating risks in today’s global supply chain landscape. With global cargo theft losses exceeding $80 billion in 2023 and the average cost of a successful fictitious pickup surging to $365,000 per incident in Q1 2024, the industry has been desperately seeking more […]

HTL Freight, the 3PL that has been acquiring other brokerages, has made its fifth purchase since 2021.

A stretch of Interstate 40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina border has been shut down from flooding and a rockslide according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation

The airport in Lyons, France, is significantly expanding its cargo infrastructure with the opening of a replacement terminal for DHL Express and construction underway on a general warehouse and pharma center to be occupied by Worldwide Flight Services.

Companies across the U.S. and Mexico announced more than 8,790 freight-related job cuts in recent weeks.

DAT and OTR, one-time partners involved in a lawsuit over factoring, have settled a legal dispute.

On June 8, 2025, a trailer carrying 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, valued at $1.4 million, was stolen, discovered missing during a pre-trip inspection at a Love’s Travel Stop in Bennett, Colorado. This major gaming hardware heist highlights the vulnerability of high-value cargo. Rising Cargo Theft Cargo theft surged 27% in 2024, with 3,625 incidents […]

Outpost, which has a $500 million pot of money to build independent terminals with parking, is opening four more outlets.

Echo Global Logistics has emerged as a standout performer in the freight industry’s battle against fraud, earning recognition as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards. With an impressive record of delivering over one million truckload shipments in 2024 while maintaining a loss rate of less than 0.01% due to theft, Echo has […]

An Ohio couple pleaded guilty to using four trucking companies they owned to obtain COVID-era loans.

DOT’s proposed new enforcement policy could result in a disincentive to investigate motor carrier violations, according to accident victim advocates.

A new robot that flips packages so labels can be scanned is helping FedEx more accurately sort packages at its Cologne, Germany, air station for final delivery.

Scaling a freight brokerage has never been an easy task, and current economic challenges have prompted many companies to take their focus away from growth and innovation. When margins are slim and freight is hard to come by, it’s natural for decision makers to be wary of making new investments. Loadsmart is doing it anyway. […]

Descartes’ MyCarrierPortal leverages real-time Incident Reports to continually vet your network.

Amazon’s air logistics unit has started flying internationally for the first time from the U.S. to help fulfill e-commerce orders in Colombia and is leaning on a U.S. cargo airline to fly the aircraft and a Colombian airline for revenue on the return leg to Miami.

DHL Express Canada will stop accepting shipments on Tuesday and suspend all operations on Friday in response to a work stoppage by 2,100 employees.

Creditors are claiming millions of dollars from two trucking companies and a distribution service provider after all three companies filed for bankruptcy at the start of this week.

Eight people have been arrested in Florida in connection to selling thousands of fraudulent driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.

California’s lawsuit over Congressional attempt to end the state’s ZEV waivers targets questions of the action’s legality.

Crowley was one of 10 winners of the 2025 Fraud Fighters Award.

Los Angeles-based tech logistics company Warp announced Friday it has secured a $10 million Series A round to scale its AI-powered freight network via robotics and automation.

AI-enabled decisioning is a long-awaited solution to information overload.

This week in Borderlands: US trade with Mexico over $69 billion in April; Cold storage provider inks $15M deal with Texas grocery chain; and Hengli Hydraulics opens $325 million plant near Monterrey, Mexico.

Carrier411 is cancelling the account of a Mexico-based client in response to ongoing protests in Los Angeles, CEO says.

Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by Carrier411’s Darren Brewer

May data from Cass Information Systems shows continued pressure on freight demand, but carriers are experiencing some pricing relief.

The Trump administration has approved building an automated freight bridge to connect Laredo, Texas, to Monterrey, Mexico.

Legislation signed by President Trump impacting California’s clean truck rules immediately brought a lawsuit from the state.

Fleetworthy recently announced it had acquired Haul, a provider of AI-powered compliance and safety technology. The combination expands Fleetworthy’s offering by adding artificial intelligence and automation to its capabilities, including automated document audits, intelligent driver onboarding and scorecards, and real-time compliance monitoring.  The safety and compliance gains continue to build out Fleetworthy’s existing technology suite, […]

The Canadian government has agreed to Canada Post’s request to force a union vote on is latest contract offer to break a negotiating stalemate.

Forward Air announced the departure of three board members following a push from activist investor Ancora Holdings Group.

C.H. Robinson talked staffing and RXO talked the English language requirement at a Wells Fargo forum.

A new enforcement policy proposed by DOT raises the question of whether the trucking industry will become less safe or will be better able to comply with regulations.

An intermodal chassis designed by Stoughton Trailers is the first to meet IIHS’s high standard for underride crash protection.

A possible cyberattack on a major food distributor is beginning to disrupt grocery supply chains.

Over 90 Albertsons truckers represented by Teamsters Local 745 in Dallas have ratified a new four-year contract with the grocery retailer.

Contract negotiations between Canada Post and mail carriers remain deadlocked as efforts to start arbitration falter.

May’s inflation data was set to be the first real test of how consumer prices would be impacted by historically high tariffs.

Investigators in Canada recently arrested nine men for using trucks to smuggle cocaine, while police in Arizona recovered a truckload of stolen electronics.

As tariff talk cools, intermodal carriers are becoming more upbeat.

Logistics’ share of US GDP rose in 2024, and CSCMP doesn’t see it declining any time soon.

Data from shippers’ searches for capacity is piped into broker CRMs with CarrierSource’s newly launched Shipper Data Intent feature.

A strike against 10 Roads Express that has dragged on for months may be nearing a conclusion.

DHL Express Canada says it has taken steps to minimize any disruption from a lockout and strike over a contract dispute with union workers.

Nortia Logistics filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Monday, listing both liabilities and assets of $1 million-$10 million.

Canada Post and its unionized letter carriers are negotiating again on a collective bargaining agreement, but their inability to resolve differences is compounding problems at the national mail carrier.

Truck parts supplier FleetPride saw its debt rating cut by Moody’s.

Easy comps and dynamic pricing have ArcBest back in growth mode, but yields are now lagging.

FreightTech startup Cargado is expanding its services into Canada.

This week in Borderlands Mexico: Renegotiating USMCA may boost North American trade; Automotive supplier opens manufacturing facility in Guanajuato; Humanscale expands manufacturing operations in Nogales; and New import cold storage facility slated for Texas border city.

Testing that is part of the growing partnership between Windrose and Terawatt includes demonstrating Windrose’s dual guan charging capabilities, which deliver over 650 kW using two 350 kW chargers from Delta Electronics.

May Ling compares logistics to other components of the Producer Price Index.

Applicants for CDL grants may have an easier time now that Biden-era DEI and climate change requirements have been stripped out of the approval process.

Qualifying drivers requires navigating complex Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). Doing this correctly is critical, as non-compliant driver qualification files can result in substantial audit fines and serve as a basis for negligence claims in post-crash litigation. Maintaining audit-ready DQ files isn’t just about regulatory compliance—it’s essential for protecting your business from financial and […]

Chattanooga-based startup Truck Parking Club recently announced it has expanded to over 2,000 locations and over 40,000 reservable spaces.

Less-than-truckload carrier Saia reported a decline in tonnage for the first time since Yellow Corp. closed.

The Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago freight markets are all tightening.

Autonomous trucking company Plus will go public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp IX.

Proficient Auto Logistics saw its stock plummet for a while on Wednesday, possibly due to an investor presentation.

Less-than-truckload carrier XPO saw a volume decline in May that was in line with its previous guidance.

A small-business trucker has been charged with laundering money from fake credit cards to a Turkish bank account.

The death of the Advanced Clean Fleets rule in California dealt a blow to zero-emission vehicles in drayage, but Long Beach remains committed.

The push for tort reform in Texas went zero for two in the just-completed legislative session.

Improving how truck driver registrations are vetted and collecting better crash data are among FMCSA’s FY26 priorities, according to a new detailed budget request.

Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are not giving an inch in their fight over a labor contract, with Canada Post showing frustration with union leadership and opposing its call for binding arbitration.

Various transportation metrics maintained recent growth trajectories in May, according to a monthly survey of supply chain managers.

Yellow Corp. has asked a federal bankruptcy court to approve four terminal sale agreements totaling $6.8 million.

A South Florida trucking executive is going to prison for a $100 million Ponzi scheme.

Activist investor Ancora said an independent proxy adviser is backing its plea to Forward Air shareholders to vote against three legacy directors who served during the ill-conceived Omni Logistics acquisition.

Columbus, Ohio-based ODW Logistics has a new group president.

This week in Borderlands Mexico: Nearshoring investments still flowing south of the border; Buhler Group plans first manufacturing facility in Mexico; Frisa opens $350M steel factory in Monterrey; and $90M logistics hub opens near Phoenix.

Canada Post, in a sign it has lost patience with leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, has asked the Canadian government to put its latest contract offer to employees for a vote.

House legislation would ban hauling horses across state lines in livestock trailers designed for smaller animals.

A bill that the Texas trucking industry targeted as a key tool for tort reform has died in the state’s House.

In today’s rapidly evolving logistics landscape, companies face mounting pressure to maintain driver headcount amid persistent industry-wide challenges and the ongoing shortage of qualified CDL holders.  This environment has transformed how companies approach recruitment, as well as what candidates expect from the hiring process. Job applicants now engage with potential employers through increasingly diverse digital […]