An emergency waiver easing truck driver restrictions for haulers of live chickens is the first move by the Trump administration to directly address a nationwide egg shortage.
Auto hauler Jack Cooper is closing after recent contract difficulties with Ford and GM.
The logistics industry is no stranger to financial inefficiencies, particularly in the accounts receivable process – something Upwell aims to combat.
On Monday, advanced transportation management software provider Alvys announced the launch of its integrated marketplace, which consolidates multiple load boards directly within its TMS platform.
ArcBest announced Monday it is piloting a forklift that also acts as a freight dimensioner.
HydroFleet and 3PL Hyundai Glovis announced plans to build a hydrogen production and truck fueling station near Georgia’s Port of Savannah.
President Donald Trump said he will impose a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium entering the U.S., a move that significantly affects trade with Mexico and Canada.
“I have never seen a role like a cradle-to-grave broker in any other industry,” said FreightHero’s founder and CEO.
This week in Borderlands: Diverse supply chain can limit tariffs’ impact, expert says; CPKC launches Texas cross-border railway bridge; Canada-based components maker expands Mexico plant; and Mexico repeals ban on imports of genetically modified corn.
The Jack Cooper-GM relationship has been severed, with GM no longer providing cars to the auto hauler.
Universal Logistics lowered its 2025 guidance due to headwinds in the intermodal market and expenses from a recent acquisition.
Truckload shipments spike into New Orleans ahead of Sunday’s showdown between the Chiefs and Eagles.
The annual revision to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ employment report showed a lot fewer jobs in truck transportation than earlier thought.
Amazon beat expectations for revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter, but it predicts slower growth in the next quarter.
Werner Enterprises highlights some favorable trends for the new year after a messy fourth quarter.
Universal Logistics Holdings reported a 19% increase in operating revenue to $465.1 million in the fourth quarter.
Werner Enterprises reported a big earnings miss in the 2024 fourth quarter due to outsize insurance claims.
US freight market continued to face headwinds in Q4 2024 Data released Tuesday by freight audit and payment provider U.S. Bank showed a trucking industry continuing to battle a variety of headwinds. According to the latest U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index, shipment volumes fell 4.7% from the previous quarter, marking the 10th consecutive quarterly decline. […]
Shares of less-than-truckload carrier XPO were up 9% in midday trading on Thursday following a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year margin improvement.
SONAR market experts say Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico might have spurred shippers to “pull forward” orders and rethink their supply chains.
Less-than-truckload carrier XPO beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations Thursday before the market opened.
RXO’s stock price was pummeled Wednesday after the release of its earnings
Q4 2024 data released by freight audit and payment provider U.S. Bank showed a trucking industry continuing to battle cyclical and structural headwinds.
Two U.S. senators are asking Ford to explain why it canceled its contract with auto hauler Jack Cooper.
Old Dominion Freight Line is planning for a good 2025 back half and hasn’t given up on the first half yet.
Uber Freight recorded its ninth consecutive quarter of negative EBITDA.
Integrated parcel carrier Purolator has become even more integrated with the addition of customs broker Livingston International.
Border seizures of fentanyl, a drug that the Trump administration has declared part of a national emergency, declined 18.8% in fiscal year 2024.
Patrick Lee Miller, 56, of Malvern, Iowa, has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged road rage incident on Interstate 80 in Jasper County, Illinois.
The U.S. Postal Service has reversed its decision to stop receiving parcels from China and Hong Kong.
Less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line beat fourth-quarter expectations Wednesday before the market opened.
RXO predicts in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it will have greater synergies from its Coyote acquisition.
The U.S. Postal Service has stopped accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong.
A Georgia-based carrier has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing a weak freight market.
The AFP program was established to make starting a trucking company more accessible for motivated hands-on leaders and commercial license drivers.
Waabi announced a strategic partnership with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks.
Supply chain-related firms in the U.S. have laid off 16,919 workers since the beginning of October.
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia is looking for opportunities to raise pricing across its larger network to levels commensurate with the rest of the market.
New tariffs pose a significant challenge for U.S. refiners, who are already grappling with declining profit margins.
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Even cars assembled in the U.S. are not exempt from tariff shocks, as components from Mexico and Canada account for roughly 10% of the value of U.S.-built cars, with an additional 5% to 6% coming from Chinese inputs.
The ping-pong question of how the National Labor Relations Board defines independent contractors is on hold, for now, in a key trucking case.
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Monday.
Businesses are heading into 2025 with lean inventories and high demand from consumers.
A recent Bloomberg report said Nikola is considering a possible sale or partnership as it attempts to raise capital to stay afloat.
This week in Borderlands: Tariffs won’t stop soaring cross-border trade, expert says; Nestle investing $1B in Mexico to boost production; Polar Leasing Co. plans Texas distribution hub; and German equipment manufacturer opens $20M plant in northern Mexico.
Harbinger, a leading medium-duty electric vehicle company, announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funds to boost growth.
ArcBest’s fourth-quarter results were ahead of analysts’ expectations but reflect a sluggish demand environment.
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A new report from the Intermodal Association of North America found international volumes helped intermodal freight author a turnaround in 2024.
By establishing an ongoing MVR monitoring program, carriers can protect themselves from risky actions like unknowingly dispatching a driver without a valid license.
Saia is turning to NASCAR as a new marketing platform, sponsoring a car from the Joe Gibbs Racing team.
ArcBest beat fourth-quarter expectations Friday but noted that continued industrial weakness is weighing on its results.
Freight markets are on notice to expect the start of Trump’s new tariff regime on Feb. 1.
In the first State of Freight webinar for the year, intermodal and politics were on the agenda.
Congress will try again to crack down on fake brokers and trucking companies that slip under the regulatory radar.
Iowa-based truckload carrier Heartland Express reported a sixth consecutive quarterly net loss (excluding one-time gains) in its Q4 earnings report.
Schneider National points to some green shoots on its fourth-quarter earnings call.
UPS said it will cut the volumes it handles for Amazon by 50% over the next two years to boost profitability.
C.H. Robinson posted strong year-on-year gains, but some of the sequential numbers were softer.
Schneider National’s initial take on 2025 earnings is largely in line with consensus expectations.
Tesla plans to begin mass production of its all-electric Class 8 Semi truck by the end of the year at its factory in Nevada.
Landstar System sees the truckload market as still in a transition period.
C.H. Robinson’s fourth-quarter earnings show some continued improvement sequentially, which has been a key metric for investors.
Landstar System missed fourth-quarter consensus on Wednesday and issued first-quarter guidance well shy of expectations.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced it has built a 40-acre solar farm that will provide electricity to most of its main corporate campus.
Love’s Travel Stops built a new travel center in California even as diesel was targeted for phase-out; now that’s not an issue.
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The dollar value of cross-border freight moving between the United States, Canada and Mexico in November was unchanged from the previous year.
Shippers and logistics professionals are bracing for U.S. tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports that could begin Saturday.
An annual report from logistics real estate landlord Prologis calls for a slight recovery in market rents during 2025 following the first decline in more than 15 years.
Truckload carrier Heartland Express is hoping 2025 is the start of a turnaround.
The project44 vs. My Carrier dispute over eBOL technology has reached a Delaware court, with both sides asking for injunctions.
ALAN has been quietly mobilizing supply chain and logistics expertise to support communities in the wake of catastrophic events for the past 20 years, most recently in Los Angeles.
Western Express prevailed in federal appellate court in a case involving a Virginia wreck from 2018.
Refrigerated carrier Marten Transport said it was encouraged with sequential improvement in metrics during the fourth quarter even as meaningful year-over-year deterioration continued.
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Chicago and Dallas tender rejections still exceed 7%.
Consumers’ growing pessimism could trigger a pullback in discretionary purchases, directly weighing on trucking demand.
This week in Borderlands: Trump tariffs could raise consumer prices in short term, expert says; TransPak expands logistics operation in Texas; Logisticus Group opens supply chain facility near Phoenix; and Grupo Lintel plans $83 million logistics park in central Mexico.
Kodiak Robotics and Atlas Energy Solutions announced that Atlas completed the delivery of 100 loads of proppant with two RoboTruck equipped with Kodiak Driver, Kodiak’s self-driving system.
Covenant Logistics Group officials are optimistic about the trucking market, expecting more freight by mid-2025.
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Autonomous yard operations leader Outrider recently announced an industry-first deployment of advanced reinforcement learning (RL) techniques across its customer sites.
Trucking-focused bank Triumph Financial had a solid EBITDA performance at its Payments unit, but a lower bottom line.
A California trucking company, which provided earthwork, excavation, and demolition services, along with its affiliated company, recently filed for bankruptcy protection, citing cashflow issues after defaulting on its factoring agreement.
Covenant Logistics Group reported 3% quarterly growth in freight revenue, “despite a challenging general freight environment,” Chairman and CEO David R. Parker said.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Truck Leasing Task Force delivered a scathing report on lease-purchase programs managed by motor carriers in the trucking industry.
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Despite encouraging signs, the U.S. manufacturing sector remains in the early stages of recovery.
Knight-Swift Transportation wants to see more proof the truckload market has turned before it raises its outlook.
In an Illinois case involving gathering biometric data from truck drivers, telematics provider Lytx has settled for $4.25 million.
A federal task force wants Congress to shut down leasing programs used in the trucking industry due to “widespread harm” that they cause small-business owners.
Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and announced an immediate halt to operations weeks after it furloughed its remaining workers and idled its Oklahoma factory.
Two purchase agreements for four of Yellow’s terminals were submitted to a federal bankruptcy court as a broader bid deadline nears.
A publicly traded coffee wholesaler has filed a lawsuit against a Texas-based logistics company nearly a year after a load of coffee, valued at almost $84,500, went missing.
President Trump said he was considering Feb. 1 as a start date for tariffs against Canada and Mexico, directing federal agencies to assess compliance with recent trade agreements.
Potential regulations aimed at boosting truck safety – including protecting women – will receive new scrutiny under one of many actions taken by President Trump on Inauguration Day.
Bankrupt Yellow Corp. has settled claims with two groups of employees who claim they were not properly notified ahead of mass layoffs in 2023.
From optimizing electric vehicle fleets to mitigating fraud and automating nonrevenue tasks, automation is positioned to address some of the industry’s most pressing challenges.
