Unfilled factory orders rose to $1.61 trillion in August while shipments stalled, and the steel, freight and diesel needed to work them off cost more in September.
SONAR Rate Intelligence now includes intermodal contract and spot rates, ramp data and Conversion Savings to compare truckload vs. intermodal costs.
More than 1,000 Amazon Logistics assignments flowed through the operation before federal investigators unraveled a multimillion-dollar invoice scheme.
Einride has two cabless electric trucks running daily for EASE Logistics in Ohio, a test case for whether autonomy can absorb unplanned short-haul freight.
Optimus Technology acquired SmartHop’s load and fleet management platform and plans to distribute it free through financial, insurance and logistics partners reaching tens of thousands of carriers.
Contract dry van rates rose every month since April to $2.39 a mile while spot slid to $2.17, reversing June’s inversion in the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index – Rates Edition.
Geotab has launched a fleet card that uses vehicle telematics data to authorize fuel purchases, monitor spending and prevent unauthorized transactions. The company said diesel prices can vary by as much as 77 cents per gallon between stations in the same town.
Looser fuel economy rules help Detroit’s truck-heavy lineups, but SONAR data shows accepted truckload volume is flat to down while tender rejections nearly tripled.
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges a Michigan transportation provider systematically understated load values before calculating compensation owed to owner-operators.
The driver apparently had no idea. Investigators say thieves manipulated transportation information to make the redirected shipment appear legitimate.
Interstate 35 has long been the connective tissue of the Texas Triangle, the artery that carries freight from the Mexican border through San Antonio and Austin on its way to Dallas-Fort Worth, the Midwest and beyond. As freight volumes climb and population growth adds more drivers to an already strained I-35 route, fleets are increasingly […]
A load of televisions left California bound for Florida but never arrived. Prosecutors traced that shipment into a much larger operation.
Scott Cornell says sophisticated theft groups can move stolen goods into legitimate commerce, sometimes reaching overseas markets within days.
Thirty stolen transformers worth about $600,000 were among the recoveries during a nationwide operation targeting cargo theft networks.
Descartes Systems Group has launched an AI agent within its Datamyne trade intelligence platform that allows users to search and analyze global shipment data using natural-language questions.
Flexport’s latest release pairs an MCP server for outside AI agents with a workforce of internal agents the company says handles 21 million tasks a year, plus Atlas and customs upgrades.
Most shippers, by this point, tend to believe they have visibility into their cold chain. What “visibility” truly covers, though, is often little more than surface-level location data. The gap between knowing where a shipment is and knowing what happened to it along the way is where cold chain programs can come across some of […]
Newsom signs California bills increasing cold-storage warehouse accountability after massive Lineage fire.
Carriers avoid TMS migrations for good reason: data to move, integrations to replace, teams to prepare. Trimble says its four carrier systems will modernize without one.
Only 30% of Amazon sellers list in more than one country. Amazon’s fix is one inbound shipment, storage up to 45% below AWD and single-submission compliance testing.
