Let’s get one thing straight—branding is not a logo. It’s not your color scheme, it’s not your slogan, and it sure as hell isn’t your Instagram page with four truck selfies and a motivational quote. Branding is how the market remembers you when you’re not in the room. It’s what brokers, shippers, and even other […]
Echo Global Logistics has emerged as a standout performer in the freight industry’s battle against fraud, earning recognition as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards. With an impressive record of delivering over one million truckload shipments in 2024 while maintaining a loss rate of less than 0.01% due to theft, Echo has […]
Everyone wants to scale. Until they do. That’s when the problems start. Invoices get missed. Drivers start calling dispatch for payroll issues. You’re chasing paperwork, and no one can find the load confirmation for that Tuesday drop in Birmingham. Adding trucks too fast without fixing your back office is like building a house on wet […]
Most carriers don’t realize how much empty miles are quietly killing their bottom line. You can have the best rates in the world, but if your truck runs 150 miles empty between loads, you’re bleeding profit—and most of the time, you don’t even notice it until it’s too late. Deadhead doesn’t show up on a […]
In this edition: Breaking down the annual NTT Data study and Mexico becomes top trading partner again.
Jabil plans to invest $500 million to expand its manufacturing and services infrastructure across the Southeastern U.S.
Scaling a freight brokerage has never been an easy task, and current economic challenges have prompted many companies to take their focus away from growth and innovation. When margins are slim and freight is hard to come by, it’s natural for decision makers to be wary of making new investments. Loadsmart is doing it anyway. […]
Creditors are claiming millions of dollars from two trucking companies and a distribution service provider after all three companies filed for bankruptcy at the start of this week.
Eight people have been arrested in Florida in connection to selling thousands of fraudulent driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.
Crowley was one of 10 winners of the 2025 Fraud Fighters Award.
Thanks to Ship OGRE’s proprietary technology, each expansion is seamless and effective due to the adaptability, flexibility and scalability of the solution.
This week in Borderlands: US trade with Mexico over $69 billion in April; Cold storage provider inks $15M deal with Texas grocery chain; and Hengli Hydraulics opens $325 million plant near Monterrey, Mexico.
Carrier411 is cancelling the account of a Mexico-based client in response to ongoing protests in Los Angeles, CEO says.
Aurora has partnered with On the Road Garage, a transportation workforce development provider to launch an apprenticeship and upskilling initiative to prepare workers for the new demands required by autonomous vehicles.
It’s one thing to want funding—it’s another to actually qualify for it. Plenty of carriers talk about adding trucks or expanding into new markets, but when it comes time to sit down with a lender, the story on paper doesn’t match the ambition. Lenders aren’t interested in how many loads you ran last week or […]
The Trump administration has approved building an automated freight bridge to connect Laredo, Texas, to Monterrey, Mexico.
Fleetworthy recently announced it had acquired Haul, a provider of AI-powered compliance and safety technology. The combination expands Fleetworthy’s offering by adding artificial intelligence and automation to its capabilities, including automated document audits, intelligent driver onboarding and scorecards, and real-time compliance monitoring. The safety and compliance gains continue to build out Fleetworthy’s existing technology suite, […]
Konexial’s VIN + TUID load board verification cuts down on freight fraud and double brokering by assigning identification to each posted load and every organization that handles it.
With the rise of fuel fraud and increasingly complex fuel tax regulations, QuikQ’s fuel payment instruments utilize technology to track and prevent discrepancies at the pump.
In this edition: Key findings from the CSCMP State of Logistics report, and a new cross-border load board hits the scene.
