Median last-mile delivery cost rose 12% again in 2026. FarEye CEO Kushal Nahata told Last Mile Leaders America the increase is now the planning baseline.
Last-mile delivery eats 40% of supply chain costs. FarEye’s co-founder explains why Agentic AI, not just optimization software, is finally changed the math for dispatchers.
As enterprise retailers add regional carriers, 3PLs and gig couriers, Burq is pitching one layer to route, monitor and redispatch every order before the delivery promise breaks.
Last-mile delivery is where every upstream mistake finally comes due. It is the last stop before the customer, the last chance to get an order right. It is also the first place where blame lands when something goes wrong. Maersk is betting that connecting every link in that chain, from the port to the doorstep, […]
Tariffs, fuel and last-mile rates are all moving the wrong way at once. ShipStation Global CEO Tom Madine says small shippers are trying to absorb the whole problem in-house.
HERE Technologies is pairing AI route optimization with a reasoning layer that explains dispatch decisions and a tool that learns from drivers in the field.
Federal safety rules attach to the truck, not the driver. Get under the weight, the seats, or the license class, and some screening lifts. Here’s what the inspection data shows about who ends up behind the wheel of your delivery truck.
The Supreme Court widened the definition of interstate worker to include some that never cross state lines,
Maersk’s Sam Coiro explains how the ocean giant uses its existing fulfillment infrastructure and multi-carrier network to deliver packages coast to coast with one label, one invoice and one tracking number.
Straightship and Dragonfly have launched a strategic partnership that gives U.S. retailers a single integration point for northbound shipments, delivering one tracking number, pre-cleared customs and consistent service from major cities to remote communities.
Last-mile delivery technology platform FarEye has partnered with Amazon Key to address costly delivery failures stemming from access issues at gated communities and apartment buildings.
The question of arbitration vs. litigation is easy to overlook in the Flowers Foods drivers’ Supreme Court case.
Uber Freight enters the last mile delivery market through an investment in technology platform Better Trucks.
A long-promised service has launched out of a Walmart Supercenter in Mesquite, Texas: Zipline drone delivery.
Amazon beat expectations for revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter, but it predicts slower growth in the next quarter.
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.
Some Amazon employees are preparing to strike or protest on Black Friday as part of the “Make Amazon Pay” demonstrations against alleged labor abuses.
Last-mile solutions provider OneRail has raised $42 million in venture capital backing to streamline the last mile of the delivery process.
New bills in both the Senate and House of Representatives would upgrade the 45G tax credit for inflation and expand trackage covered under the program.
In the constantly changing world of last-mile delivery, it can no longer operate as a siloed operation from middle mile.
