Trucking

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.

New AI RateAgents from BeyondTrucks enable carriers to automate complex fuel surcharges using plain language.

Alan Ritchey’s latest shutdown in New Jersey highlights mounting pressure on freight contractors as USPS continues pulling operations in-house.

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.

This week in Borderlands: Truck exports to U.S. fall in March; Port of Manzanillo posts record Q1 container volumes; and GM, SAIC weigh Mexico partnership.

Gord Magill has been behind the wheel since high school. So was his father. So was his grandfather. That lineage gives “End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers” something most books about trucking fundamentally lack: the credibility that comes only from someone who actually lived it.

A new wave of layoffs across logistics providers highlights ongoing contract volatility and soft demand in key freight segments.

FMCSA confirmed today that $73,502,543 in federal highway funding has been withheld from New York after the state refused to revoke non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that its own DMV system issued illegally. More than half of the records audited violated federal law. Decertification of New York’s entire CDL program remains explicitly on the table.

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.

The federal government just rewired the system carriers use to challenge erroneous violations and crash data. Most truckers still do not know it exists. That needs to change, because your SMS scores, your insurance premiums, and your ability to keep working may depend on what you do next.

Mudflap has completed its acquisition of Parade. The deal pairs Mudflap’s location-verified carrier network with Parade’s capacity management platform for brokers, which has facilitated more than $40 billion in total cumulative freight transactions. Mudflap boasts more than 515,000 drivers across over 100,000 verified carriers. The Palo Alto-based fintech company provides fuel discount solutions to carriers […]

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

From single-truck operators to mid-sized fleets, carriers across the U.S. are filing for bankruptcy as the freight downturn persists.