logistics

The driver isn’t always taking the load. They’re creating the moment where it can be taken.

The cross-border freight market between the United States and Mexico is entering a new chapter, and Werner is positioning itself at the center of it. FreightWaves’ Thomas Wasson sat down with Werner’s Nate Browne and Lance Dixon to discuss the future of nearshoring and cross-border freight.

Most cargo theft does not start with a truck. It starts with access that looks legitimate until it is too late.

A parts supplier outside Detroit runs its production line around the clock. Orders feed in through a cloud-based ERP system, shipping commitments sync with carrier TMS platforms in real time, and quality data streams from sensors embedded in the assembly equipment. All of it depends on a network connection that many people take for granted. […]

FreightWaves has compiled a comprehensive SONAR Sitrep detailing the ground-level logistics impact of America’s AI data center build-out.

Here is a number that does not get talked about enough: we have seen a some small carriers that have somewhere between $40,000 and $100,000 in completed work sitting as unpaid invoices at any given time. That money has been earned. The load moved. The delivery was made. The BOL is signed. The money simply […]

The maintenance cost story in trucking has been quietly telling the truth about the freight recession in a way that spot rates and load volumes never fully captured. When freight slows down, trucks run fewer miles, which means fewer service events per truck per month. The Q4 2025 Decisiv/TMC Parts and Labor Service Benchmark Report […]

If you have been running the load board for the past three years, you know what the bottom felt like. Loads sitting for hours. Brokers lowballing you on every call. Rates that barely covered fuel, let alone the truck payment. That was the freight recession — and it held from 2022 through most of 2025. […]

When the insurance renewal comes in higher than last year, most small carriers respond the same way: shop it, push back on the broker, maybe raise the deductible to get the premium down. That has been the playbook for a decade. It is increasingly not working — because the problem is not your specific loss […]

A surge in M&A, electrification and distribution buildouts signals rising demand for logistics services in Canada.

A growing trend in logistics is no longer about preventing disruptions. The new focus is recovering from disruptions faster than competitors. That was the central message from Trimble Transportation and Logistics executives during a virtual roundtable.  In the presentation, company leaders outlined how their expanding carrier-shipper network is helping transform supply chains from reactive to […]

The Trump administration launched a new system on Monday for importers and businesses to reclaim shares of $166 billion in tariff refunds.

Turn everyday bypasses into measurable gains across your entire fleet.

The industry points to billions in losses, but that number only captures what can be seen. When you factor in hidden activity and indirect costs, cargo theft becomes a much larger and more persistent risk.

Discover how a $287K VIN fraud scheme exploited the trucking industry using false identities.

FreightWaves’ Editorial Director, J.P. Hampstead, sits down with Alfonso Quijano to discuss the future of AI integration and the logistics labor market.

Prime Inc. and Old Dominion Freight Line are expanding U.S. terminal networks with new hubs in Georgia and Washington.

LeadCoverage analyzes qualified pipeline dollars generated per dollar of GTM spend.

This was not stopped by a process. It was caught by chance.

I interviewed three PMs at project44’s customer event.

A growing disconnect between demand and pricing is emerging across freight markets, Flexport says.

Fleet operators tend to think of risk in terms of isolated events, such as a crash, a failed inspection, or a compliance lapse. But according to Bob O’Connell, Account Executive of Strategic Accounts at J.J. Keller & Associates, that way of thinking is itself the biggest blind spot in the industry. “A lot of carriers, […]

project44 execs pitched their product roadmap to a room full of shippers and LSPs.

Stolen freight worth $1M recovered by deputies, preventing major cargo theft loss.

LunaPath builds AI agents for logistics execution and orchestration.

One gap was all it took. By the time it was noticed, the load was already too far gone to recover.

Three updates to SONAR’s load prioritization and coverage strategy tool give carrier sales teams deeper lane intelligence, more actionable guidance, and a live connection between internal freight systems and the market. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — April 8, 2026— SONAR today announced a significant expansion of Coverage Guide, SONAR’s load prioritization and coverage strategy tool, with three […]

Two trucks carrying $470K in stolen vehicles were intercepted, but the real risk is how they moved through legitimate freight channels undetected.

Truckstop announced Tuesday it acquired Wize Load and will rebrand it Truckstop Heavy Haul Rates, adding lane-specific pricing to its Heavy Haul Load Board.

To handle today’s prolonged freight recession and its instability, shrinking margins, and growing pressure from customers, fleet managers need to think differently. How? With age-old advice: Steady wins the race.

By the time the product was found, it was already positioned to move through resale channels. That’s not a recovery story. It’s a reminder that most losses start long before a load is ever picked up.

Most truckers track spot rates. Some track load-to-truck ratios. A smaller number pull freight data every week. Not many are watching the pallet Producer Price Index or the American Forest & Paper Association’s monthly packaging report — which is exactly why understanding those two numbers right now puts you ahead of most of the market. […]

The Trump administration is expected to change how duties are applied to metal-based products, potentially raising import costs and altering cross-border freight flows.

One Indianapolis suburb has 1,000 newly registered trucking carriers. One neighborhood inside that suburb has more than 300 active carriers covering roughly 250 homes. The CDL crackdown is real, starting today in Indiana

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual International Roadcheck is scheduled for May 12-14, and this year’s event will zero in on two issues that continue to generate tens of thousands of violations across North America: ELD tampering/falsification and cargo securement. This year, inspectors are going old school. During the 72-hour enforcement window, CVSA-certified inspectors at […]

A Denver-papered, Chisinau-operated freight broker dispatched a truck owned by a carrier with 10 fatalities on its federal record, driven by a man with a temporary CDL. Seventeen people and their families paid for it in Beaumont, Texas.

Winners to be announced at the Freight Fraud Symposium in Cleveland.

From the US to the UK to Europe, the pattern is the same. Control shifts early, and by the time it’s noticed, the freight is already gone.

DP World has opened a Montreal freight forwarding office as it expands its Canadian logistics network eastward.

A survey of 1,000 supply chain leaders shows rising frozen food demand and tariff pressure driving major changes in cold chain logistics.

Redwood Logistics proposed “Logistics Platform as a Service” but followed analyst guidance to reposition as a modern 4PL, earning Visionary status in Gartner’s inaugural 4PL Magic Quadrant.

Let’s start with what the numbers actually look like. On March 1, diesel was averaging roughly $3.90 per gallon nationally. By March 9, a single week produced a 96-cent spike — the largest one-week increase in diesel prices since the federal government began tracking the series. By mid-month it crossed $5. As of this week […]

You delivered the load. The BOL is signed. The POD is in. The job is done. And now you wait — 30 days, 45 days, sometimes longer — for a broker to release payment while your truck payment, your fuel bill, your insurance premium, and your driver’s paycheck are all due right now. That gap […]

A growing list of transportation companies filed for Chapter 11 in March, highlighting continued financial strain across the supply chain.

More than 400,000 KitKats were stolen in transit, but the product itself is still traceable. Nestlé’s response shows how even a chocolate bar can carry the signal after the load is gone.

Cargo theft persists even with all checks passed, revealing gaps in freight verification.

One year after the “Liberation Day” tariffs, small business owners say ongoing trade policy shifts are still affecting supply chains, pricing and growth plans.

TheMaritime Administration announced nearly $489 million in funding aimed at revitalizing U.S. ports, shipyards, and maritime capabilities.

Cloud outages cost warehouses up to $100K/hour. 84% of operators had major disruptions recently. Brian Kirst on the rise of hybrid WMS.

IAG Cargo has launched deliver-e, a cross-border parcel delivery platform that leverages airline networks to offer faster, more transparent international e-commerce shipping with three-to-six-day transit times across 250+ destinations.

C.H. Robinson is reducing management headcount through voluntary buyouts, the company said.

Let’s start with what is not in dispute. In 2023, 5,472 people were killed in traffic crashes involving large trucks, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System — the most reliable national crash database that exists. Seventy percent of those people — 3,837 of them — were not in the […]

Manufacturers and retailers are increasingly renting storage trailers to manage inventory surges, cross-border freight flows and rising warehouse costs.

The freight market momentum is building at a rapid clip. National dry van spot rates — tracked via the SONAR National Truckload Index (NTI.USA), the 7-day moving average of booked rates including fuel — have broken out to a new cycle high of $2.89 per mile. This represents the strongest level since 2022 and confirms […]

A tow bill landed on trucking Facebook this week and it has been making the rounds ever since. Drivers are sharing it, tagging each other, dropping fire emojis and expletives in equal measure. Some are calling it a scam. Some are saying the driver should have known better. Most are just staring at the total […]

One month ago the national average for diesel was $3.65 a gallon. As of this week, it is over $5.00. According to AAA, that is a 38% increase in roughly 30 days — the fastest one-month fuel price spike the trucking industry has experienced in years, driven by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran that […]

The U.S. truckload spot market just hit a new cycle high at $2.82 per mile on the National Truckload Index (NTI.USA)—that’s the 7-day moving average of booked dry van spot rates, fuel included. Volumes are holding firm at multi-year peaks we haven’t seen since late 2022. The chart shows the steady climb of trucking spot […]

How the feds are tackling non-dom CDLs and English language proficiency.

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.

President Trump has temporarily waived the Jones Act for energy shipping and other commodities after the war in Iran sent gas prices soaring.

Ocean liner CMA CGM is introducing emergency multimodal transport options for the UAE and northern Gulf to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

The chart below is real. It comes directly from FMCSA’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. It is publicly available. And based on the coverage it has received relative to its significance, it might be the most important piece of data in the trucking industry that the industry has largely ignored. Here is what it says, in […]

The deal is straightforward. Shell Rotella and Truck Parking Club are running a promotion called “Night on Us.” Drivers who get a qualifying Shell Rotella T5 Synthetic Blend or T6 Full Synthetic oil change — at a minimum of 11 gallons — at a participating service location can submit their receipt at rotella.com/nightonus and receive […]

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Transfix co-founder Drew McElroy explains how running its own brokerage formed the basis for its TMS. The interview covers the 2014 founding, the decade of operations and the later transition to software.

Discover the MC number market and learn about the FMCSA’s efforts to curb illegal trades in this underground industry.

The newly-appointed chief of the U.S. shipping regulator says the United States must completely rebuild its industrial maritime complex if it wants to reclaim leadership on the global stage.

Sanjay Singh founded Royal Bengal Logistics, Inc. in 2018 in Coral Springs, Florida. He built a website that described a company with 250 employees, a fleet of over 200 semi-trucks and growing, and revenue of $1 million per month. He held annual investor banquets in hotel ballrooms. He posted a video of himself onstage announcing […]

There is a legal process in the United States called civil asset forfeiture, and if you drive a truck, carry cash, or run a small business that deals in either, you need to understand it before you drive through Texas — or most other states — with your operating capital in your pocket. The case […]

Dalilah Coleman is a seven-year-old girl from California’s San Bernardino County who, on June 20, 2024, was five years old and riding in her family’s car when a commercial 18-wheeler driven by Partap Singh — a citizen of India who entered the country illegally through the southern border in 2022 and was later issued a […]

For most of the past year, two federal agencies have been doing more to reshape the trucking driver pool than anything else in the industry: the Department of Transportation with its non-domiciled CDL crackdown, and the Department of Homeland Security with its immigration enforcement raids. DOT and DHS have operated in close coordination — DOT […]

Let’s start with something that sounds simple but changes everything about how you should read the freight market: retail is the engine that drives truckload freight. Not manufacturing alone. Not energy. Retail. When Americans buy things — clothes, furniture, electronics, appliances, home goods, groceries — those products move on trucks. Multiple times. From a factory […]

Three times in five years. That is how many times the federal standard governing whether an owner-operator is legally classified as an independent contractor or an employee has fundamentally shifted under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The 2021 Trump rule. The 2024 Biden rule. And now, on February 27, 2026, the Department of Labor’s formal […]

FMCSA does not publish emergency bulletins for hypothetical problems. When a federal agency puts out a formal, dated, publicly addressed warning that begins with the phrase “DO NOT” in all capital letters, it is because the behavior being warned against is happening — at scale, right now — and the agency wants the industry to […]

While AI stole the spotlight at Manifest, Ryder System’s venture arm is increasing its focus on investments in warehouse automation

For the first time, legislation introduced in the 119th Congress would require every motor carrier, subcontractor, and owner-operator hauling Department of Defense freight to certify they have no ties to Chinese military companies, and back that certification up with their signature.

The headline writes itself and the industry groups are celebrating: Pell Grants are coming to CDL schools. The American Trucking Associations called it a move that would “dismantle financial barriers that prevent students from low-income households from accessing the career pathways that lead to the trucking industry.” The Secretary of Education said a great education […]

Layoffs across manufacturing and logistics operations signal companies are recalibrating supply chains amid shifting freight demand and industrial output.

Before you can have an honest conversation about what’s happening to DACA recipients in the trucking industry right now, you have to first be honest about what DACA actually is – because a lot of people are weighing in on this policy debate without a firm grip on the facts, and that confusion is doing […]

Most small carriers do not lose in hiring. They lose in what happens after the handshake — the documentation that didn’t get collected, the employer verification that never got followed up on, the drug test that cleared but nobody logged into the right system, the medical card that expired and sat in a drawer for […]

A bill moving through the House of Representatives right now would establish the first federal framework for putting fully autonomous heavy-duty trucks on public roads. The SELF DRIVE Act of 2026 — formally H.R. 7390, introduced February 5 by Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio — is being framed by its supporters as a necessary step […]

Werner’s Jaime Jones explains how AI GPUs, semiconductor wafers, and data center hardware are transforming freight logistics. Shippers are demanding new levels of real-time visibility, engineered transit plans, and carrier-shipper collaboration that go far beyond traditional cost-per-mile thinking.

In this episode of What the Truck?!?, host Malcolm Harris sits down with Sarah Olmstead and Mike Holland to discuss why the Express Carriers Association (ECA) Marketplace is beneficial to the industry.

Regulations originally designed to protect brokers are being used against them.

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.

FreightWaves’ Thomas Wasson sits down with EROAD’s David Blackwell, ELD and Transport Product Manager, and Akshay Kumar, Senior Product Manager, to discuss why fleets with more data than ever are still struggling to act on it, and what the path forward actually looks like.

Florida didn’t just get cold this winter. It got cold in a way that most growers working those fields hadn’t seen in over a decade, and the damage to the state’s produce supply is still being tallied. What started as a warning on the weather radar turned into one of the most consequential agricultural events […]

Explore freight fraud tactics as stolen loads and identity scams plague logistics, evolving with new threats.

Every load that moves across the American freight network generates a paper trail. Proof of delivery documents. Bills of lading. Rate confirmations, accessorial charges, invoices – the list is endless. By the time a single shipment reaches its destination, carriers and brokers are managing a half-dozen or more documents, and each one needs to be […]

Trade uncertainty in the U.S. and beyond is reinforcing long-term supply chain decentralization, with companies betting on flexibility over political predictability.

Bot Auto has partnered with Ryan Transportation to launch driverless autonomous freight operations between Houston and Dallas this spring. Overnight runs will overcome driver fatigue and hours-of-service limits with precision autonomous technology.

GXO Logistics is betting on North American growth, robotics and AI to power stronger margins and free cash flow in 2026.

For the last few years, if you’ve followed trucking headlines, you’d think the entire industry is falling apart. Fraud schemes. Cargo theft. Crash investigations. CDL scandals. Bankruptcy filings. Rate collapses. Regulatory fights. Scroll your feed long enough and it starts to feel like trucking is nothing but dysfunction. But that isn’t the full story. It […]

Through the integration of its recent FirstFleet acquisition, Werner has solidified its position as a top five Dedicated provider.

American agriculture rarely makes front-page freight headlines, yet it quietly underpins a significant portion of trucking demand. Grain, livestock, fertilizer, seed, feed, refrigerated meat, packaged goods, ethanol, farm equipment—entire freight ecosystems depend on a stable farm economy. Recent reporting has highlighted a sharp rise in farm bankruptcies and growing concern from agricultural leaders about systemic […]

When I was a teenager working at a Subway in Sumter, South Carolina, I used to get corrected for something that seemed small at the time. I would build a sandwich, stack it high, and make it look generous. My boss would walk by and say, “That’s too many tomato slices.” I didn’t understand it […]

New tool allows users to intuitively analyze trucking capacity by geography.

The freight market is entering 2026 with cautious optimism replacing the extreme volatility of recent years. As market dynamics evolve, shippers and carriers are approaching the year with notably different strategies, according to new survey data from Echo Global Logistics. Echo surveyed 1,024 shippers and 832 carriers between October and November 2025, capturing expectations that […]

Medlog has opened Medlog 1, a major integrated logistics park in Saudi Arabia, strengthening the country’s position as a global logistics hub.

Zim, Israel’s flag ocean carrier, confirmed it will be acquired by Hapag-Lloyd of Germany for $4.2 billion.