Greenlane brings high-power charging to Dallas and Houston on the I-45 corridor with six to eight pull-through lanes, dual CCS/MCS, and Nevoya’s multi-year commitment.
Truck Parking Club appoints Victor Westerlund as CFO. The Stax Payments veteran joins as the company surpasses 5,000 truck parking locations and targets 10,000 by 2026.
FMCSA revoked two more electronic logging devices today, bringing the total to 67 noncompliant devices removed since January 2025. Carriers using Safe ELD or MYLOGS ELD have until July 7, 2026, to replace them or face out-of-service orders.
Investors liked what they saw and heard in RXO’s first quarter earnings.
The long-awaited Tesla Semi has landed a major order. WattEV announced Tuesday at ACT Expo that it ordered 370 Tesla Semi Class 8 electric trucks. Deliveries of the first 50 Semis will begin in 2026. Once complete by the end of 2027, the deployment will be the largest single electric truck deployment in California. The […]
Shippeo announced that it has acquired German supply chain automation company Logward for an undisclosed sum.
FedEx is in the final stages of resurrecting its MD-11 fleet after helping Boeing redesign a part that contributed to the fiery crash of a UPS jet in November, executives said during an employee briefing on Wednesday.
RXO had the type of rough quarter that might be expected given rising spot freight rates against lower contract numbers, but it foresees a significantly better second quarter. In its earnings released Thursday morning prior to an 8 a.m. EDT conference call, the company said it expected a second-quarter adjusted EBITDA of $27 million to […]
A request by two separate plaintiffs for a court to stay the enforcement of the federal government’s rule governing issuance of CDLs to most non-domiciled drivers has been denied. The request came from two separate groups of plaintiffs. One is Martin Luther King County in Washington state, more colloquially known as King County, home of […]
DHL is ditching the Deutsche Post corporate name and giving it to its Post & Parcel Germany unit as part of an internal reorganization.
Trimble posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings and lifted guidance amid growth in transportation software.
Uber Freight management is celebrating a year-on-year increase in revenue.
GXO Logistics CEO Patrick Kelleher said Amazon’s new supply chain services validate — rather than threaten — the long-term growth opportunity in outsourced logistics.
“Fleet managers are operating in one of the most complex environments in recent memory,” said Josh Lovan, Industry Business Advisor at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. “Regulation changes, driver shortages, rising equipment costs, and accelerating technology adoption are becoming increasingly challenging to deal with.” The data from the company’s sixth annual State of Fleet […]
Sun Country Airlines is preparing for a late June deployment of two new freighter aircraft provided by Amazon to increase air capacity in its domestic logistics network.
The Iran war is impacting FedEx operations in Dubai, which wants U.S. permission to pause flights there from Hong Kong so it doesn’t lose the right to fly that route.
The first weeks of the CAPE tariff refund process are exceeding expectations operationally, experts say.
An investigation found 195 active motor carriers clustered along a few miles of East Dublin Granville Road in northeast Columbus; the same corridor was just exposed for a billion dollars in Medicaid fraud. Federal inspection data shows those carriers have been involved in 275 crashes, including 4 fatal and 74 injury crashes. The world’s largest retailer appears in 175 inspections across 44 of those carriers with a 20.6% out-of-service rate.
ORBCOMM has replaced its previous debt structure with new financing.
GXO Logistics reported first quarter revenue of $3.3 billion, up 10.8% year over year.
Nearly $4 million in stolen cargo was recovered in a Los Angeles County case tied to multiple companies, with one arrest made following a search warrant in Vernon.
Super Dispatch has released new data from its Fuel and Transport Cost Tracker detailing the impact of rising diesel prices on carriers, brokers and shippers.
DHL Express gets four years of labor peace after Teamster union workers voted in favor of a negotiated contract.
MODE Global has expanded into Mexico with a new office in Puebla aimed at streamlining North American logistics.
Extreme supply and pricing dynamics persisted across the freight market in April, according to a monthly survey of supply chain managers.
Rising fuel prices and shrinking carrier capacity are driving a rapid increase in shipper spending.
Amazon announced that same-day grocery delivery is now available to Business Prime members.
Cargo theft incidents are being linked to motor carrier authorities that appear legitimate but may be controlled by unknown operators.
Continental Tire says fleets adopting connected tire systems are seeing measurable fuel savings and cost reductions.
We have a carrier-quality problem with a specific geographic signature, an enforcement problem documented for decades, and a financial problem for American carriers competing against operators who pay their drivers 35 cents a mile to do work that American drivers expect 78 cents a mile to perform.
WEX and an activist investor ended their proxy battle with Impactive to get three board seats.
Both FMCSA and outside companies are spurring carriers to get ready for the next phase of Motus.
Amazon announced it has stitched together logistics services into a unified supply chain product for manufacturers and retailers to move and distribute heavy freight and parcels, which poses a potential threat to other freight management and transport companies.
Pamt Corp.’s first-quarter real estate gain helped offset a loss in its core truckload operation.
AI investment is increasingly driving construction growth in the U.S.
Universal logistics’ intermodal struggles overshadow contract logistics growth, pushing the company into a quarterly loss.
DHL Global Forwarding is partnering with sister units DHL Aviation and DHL Express to provide dedicated transport service for customers with non-parcel, heavy freight cargo moving from Asia to the U.S. and Europe.
e2open’s Logistics as a Service is proving that companies don’t have to choose between execution capacity and strategic control when it comes to outsourcing logistics operations.
This week in Borderlands Mexico: Nearshoring fuels 800K-square-foot industrial build in El Paso; Hutchison Ports adds electric cranes at Port of Manzanillo; and Burlington breaks ground on distribution center near Phoenix.
Schneider National said price renewals are currently at the highest levels since 2021 and that it expects to capture mid- to high-single-digit increases on one-way contracts this year.
Port Houston secured a $48 million grant to expand Bayport Container Terminal to boost capacity and truck flow.
Rep. Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to ban MD-11s from flying again following the November crash of a UPS jet in Louisville last year.
Broker warns shippers not to expect a return to 2025 conditions.
We have never seen a twelve-month period in which the White House, the Department of Transportation, and FMCSA moved as aggressively, as comprehensively, and as effectively on the specific safety failures that haunt our highways and our industry. Before we sit down with Derek Barrs on Monday, here is the year that got us here.
FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, as cybercriminals increasingly target freight industry operations
Hirschbach Motor Lines plans to own 500 Aurora Driver-powered trucks as part of an expanded partnership that will let the Iowa carrier run a hybrid network
April’s State of Freight discussion suggests the current freight lull is more seasonal than structural.
Schneider National beat first-quarter expectations and reiterated its full-year earnings outlook.
DHL Express led DHL Group to a profitable first quarter as the integrated logistics provider navigated through Middle East supply chain disruptions.
Self-help initiatives at XPO are being met with better demand, pushing the less-than-truckload carrier’s financial results meaningfully higher.
A major U.S. alcohol distributor is closing facilities and laying off almost 4,700 workers across seven states.
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia’s margins appear to be turning the corner following a multiyear expansion.
XPO saw improving trends in its less-than-truckload unit during the first quarter, with margin improvement outpacing normal seasonal patterns.
Every year, roughly the same time, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance runs its International Roadcheck. Three days. Thousands of inspectors. Tens of thousands of trucks. The dates get announced months in advance, the focus areas get published, and somehow, fleets still get caught off guard.
With 10,000 LNG trucks already operating globally, Westport is introducing its next-generation compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel storage and delivery system to ACT Expo 2026. powered
The Houston company landed a 231-mile empty-cab run from Houston to Hutchins on time with zero humans or remote assistance.
More than 300,000 carriers operate in a system that cannot fully verify who is behind each authority. With limited enforcement and disconnected data, fraud continues to enter through the front door. This May, industry leaders are heading to Washington, DC to address the problem at its source.
The Montgomery broker liability case before the Supreme Court was heavily discussed on C.H. Robinson’s earnings call.
Amazon’s first quarter revenues rises 17% during the first quarter to $181.5 billion, boosted by e-commerce sales across North America and Europe.
A first look at the earnings of C.H. Robinson.
Old Dominion Freight Line said the less-than-truckload demand picture is improving.
Re-rates are now a significant cost driver for LTL shipments, and Old Dominion Freight Line is focused on identifying gaps and providing better data for shippers.
Target’s first-of-its-kind receive center in Houston adds upstream capacity to position inventory closer to demand.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will restrict empty commercial truck crossings from Mexico to Eagle Pass, Texas, to afternoon hours starting Monday.
UPS announced that it will eliminate a total of 51 parcel distribution centers this year as part of a network downsizing effort, as it reported lower profits that still topped consensus forecasts by analysts.
On April 23, a State Department spokesperson confirmed that commercial truck driver visa processing has resumed under strict new standards. Now the question is whether the states tasked with running the new system have the institutional capacity to maintain what federal audit pressure forced them to fix.
This week the agency announced that new Clearinghouse registrants will have to prove their identity before gaining SAP-level access to a federal database that 38 million queries have trusted since 2020.
Old Dominion Freight Line exceeded first-quarter estimates, noting freight demand improved as the quarter progressed.
An $81 million verdict in Utah against a building supply company over its trucking operations that killed a preteen is being called the largest civil verdict ever awarded in that state and has entered the discussion about being one of the largest nuclear verdicts in trucking in recent years. The verdict came down in a […]
Broker Landstar System said Tuesday that the truckload market is in the early stages of an upcycle, noting revenue per load is trending well ahead of normal seasonal patterns.
Werner’s Q1 results highlight early signs of a freight recovery, with rising rates and shrinking capacity setting up stronger earnings in the second half.
Port Houston’s March throughput climbed on grains and energy cargo, even as steel imports declined.
ArcBest is seeing some positive signs as carriers gain the upper hand in negotiations.
Alain Bedard, the CEO of TFI International, has never been shy about discussing the problems of his U.S. LTL operations, which the company built from the acquisition of UPS Freight in 2021. On a previous earnings call with analysts, he said the U.S. LTL operations of TFI were“too fat.” On another call, he called some […]
FedEx is telling pilots and other personnel to get ready for the return to service of the MD-11 freighter as federal regulators could soon approve a Boeing fix for the grounded aircraft.
A Florida man has been charged in a federal case involving more than $600,000 in stolen onions and potatoes. Prosecutors say the scheme relied on posing as a legitimate business to secure and redirect shipments.
ArcBest beat first-quarter expectations Tuesday before the market opened.
Uber Freight executive says “phantom capacity” is masking a tightening market as compliant drivers and secure lanes become harder to access.
This is a first look at the earnings of TFI International.
The St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund raised over $10,000 to support over-the-road drivers during the 2026 Mid-America Trucking Show.
Australia Post is investing heavily in parcel infrastructure, including a new express hub at Brisbane Airport.
Trump administration uses steep tariffs to drive production shifts as new projects in Indiana and Arkansas signal some traction.
YunExpress is the first Chinese company to lease a cargo terminal at East Midlands Airport in the United Kingdom. It will self-handle cargo on its dedicated freighter service from China.
New York CDL lawsuit filed as state challenges DOT in federal court over a $73M funding cut.
This week in Borderlands Mexico: Texas cargo theft falls; DP World taps Terry Donohoe to lead Mexico operations; and BNSF boosting capacity AZ rail hub.
Ryder’s first quarter earnings relied on an old standby.
Maine House and Senate members complained to the U.S. Postmaster General about nearly $350,000 in delinquent payments to an air carrier in the state that provides essential service to rural communities.
Covenant Logistics points to a tightening driver market and stronger demand as early signs of a truckload rebound.
Descartes Systems Group acquired driver performance management platform Idelic for $28 million.
The driver isn’t always taking the load. They’re creating the moment where it can be taken.
A dozen small carriers and logistics firms filed for bankruptcy in April, signaling continued stress in the fragmented freight market.
Marten’s first quarter earnings still showed a company dealing with a weak freight market.
Covenant Logistics Group Truckload sees momentum building after weather and fuel headwinds weigh on first quarter results.
Sam’s Club members can now pay for one-hour delivery from a neighborhood store, part of Walmart’s strategy to compete with Amazon for online sales.
The Department of Labor rule on joint employers will need to be watched by trucking companies.
The company has grown into the largest network of reservable truck parking in the country in less than four years since its 2022 founding.
Truckload carrier Heartland Express sees improving market fundamentals as a financial tailwind in the back half of this year.
Knight-Swift Transportation said the truckload market has fundamentally shifted with little help from demand.
Humble Robotics emerges from stealth with $24M seed funding and the Humble Hauler, a cabless autonomous electric truck for dock-to-dock freight.
Ryder said used vehicle sales was a strong point in its first quarter fiscal performance.
