The Gap Is Bigger Than You Think Picture two owner-operators, both running a regular Midwest corridor. Same general freight, similar weights, comparable miles per week. One of them is averaging somewhere around 7.5 to 7.8 miles per gallon. The other is pulling 6.1 to 6.3. On a week where each truck burns 400 gallons of […]
A Note Before We Start Tax law is not a place for general advice to substitute for specific counsel. The concepts in this article are educational. The numbers used are illustrative. Your actual tax situation depends on your entity structure, your annual taxable income, your state’s conformity with federal law, and decisions that need to […]
WWEX and Auctane form ShipStation Global to give small and midsize shippers enterprise-grade technology and transportation services through a single platform.
From cartel-linked theft investigations to testimony before Congress, Lemm’s message was clear: cargo theft is no longer just a transportation problem.
Two weeks ago, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration flipped the switch on the biggest overhaul of its registration infrastructure in decades. The legacy systems carriers had used for years, including the Unified Registration System, the Licensing and Insurance public filing system, and the FMCSA Portal’s registration functions, were permanently retired at 8:00 PM Eastern […]
Carriers on Kleinschmidt’s network can now route invoices directly through Upwell’s audit engine for faster payment processing.
FreightWaves launches a fast-paced business news show about supply chain, transportation and logistics.
Cargo theft and freight fraud are forcing brokerages to rethink how freight moves through trusted systems. As organized theft groups evolve, repeatable verification processes and operational discipline are becoming more important than speed alone.
The convergence of a proven 15-liter engine, Clean Energy’s nationwide fueling network, and fuel savings averaging $3 or more per gallon is reshaping how fleets evaluate their next fuel strategy.
In 1966, Canadian Pacific Railway had a problem. Empty boxcars were piling up in Eastern Canada with no payload for the return trip west. The solution was a small freight company called Fastfrate, created specifically to fill those cars with less-than-truckload shipments bound for Western Canada. Six decades later, that single-service operation has become one […]
Coupa’s acquisition spree continued with the recent addition of Tonkean, a workflow automation platform aimed at automating procurement and supply chain workflows.
GAF’s Marianna Vydrevich said AI-powered analytics are helping supply chain teams automate workflows, optimize inventory and model disruptions.
Pull up the import data on U.S. charcoal briquette shipments and you are looking at something that some people in trucking would not think to check heading into a holiday weekend. But that data, read against the consumer spending picture for Memorial Day 2026, tells you something specific about the supply chain, the retail freight […]
Freight fraud incidents are climbing by double digits year over year, and Reliance Partners breaks down how fraud has evolved and what to do about it.
A Freightliner Cascadia operated by Amritsar Trans Inc., a five-truck carrier out of Manteca, California, rear-ended three vehicles on Highway 99 near Lodi on May 19, 2026, killing two young men. The driver fled on foot. The carrier sits inside a web of 267 carriers clustered across residential addresses in the same ZIP code, and 10 involuntary revocation actions.
Infios’ analysis of millions of U.S. customs entries reveals how tariff stacking transformed supply chain execution in 2025.
Banks learned years ago that fraud prevention requires more than instinct or technology alone. They built compliance roles, documented procedures, and repeatable verification processes designed to reduce risk and stand up in court. FreightWaves believes the transportation industry is now entering that same shift.
On October 17, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, imposing a 25% tariff on imported medium and heavy-duty trucks and truck parts — Class 3 through Class 8 vehicles, engines, transmissions, tires, chassis components. It took effect November 1. For USMCA-compliant parts out of Mexico […]
The 2026 CVSA International Roadcheck ran May 12 through 14 — but enforcement didn’t stop there. Blitz week ran May 10 through 17, and by the time it closed out, the numbers were more significant than what the three-day event alone produced: 38,926 inspections. 69,446 violations. 13,273 out-of-service orders. 25,008 carriers inspected. What a lot […]
Safe isn’t always exposure-free or risk-free. Compliant isn’t always safe. What “safety” means doesn’t matter. A carrier can be all three of those things on paper and still bury everyone who touched the load in exposure. This is a working primer on how risk professionals actually vet, qualify and screen a carrier.
