Fleet replacement demand remains healthy, but manufacturers’ limited build capacity could dictate truck availability into 2027, experts say.
Carrier Assure CEO Cassandra Gaines says shippers need practical standards for evaluating brokers before freight is tendered—not just after something goes wrong.
Lanesurf, which helps freight brokerages cover loads in 10 minutes, has opened a public phone line. Callers dial (350) 220-6331, get assigned a load, and negotiate the rate with the AI. Any amount the caller talks the AI up above its target is money the caller keeps, up to the prize cap on that load. […]
New report credits federal regulators and states with tighter cabotage enforcement and tougher CDL oversight affecting more than 194,000 non-domiciled commercial drivers.
Shippers moved less freight in the second quarter and paid sharply more to do it. Tightening truck capacity, not fuel, did most of the damage to their transportation budgets.
The sheriff’s office linked the tractor-trailer to an ongoing criminal investigation and valued the drugs at about $4 million.
Joint truck inspection operations recently generated hundreds of violations and sidelined commercial vehicles from New England to the Mountain West.
Applicants paid about $5,000 each as a restaurant owner, training operator and test examiner helped bypass federal licensing requirements.
Customs and Border Protection officers found 366 cocaine packages after an X-ray scan showed trailer-floor anomalies and a drug dog alerted investigators. The driver faces a federal importation charge carrying a possible life sentence.
Aurora Innovation said it expects to reach an $80 million TaaS revenue run-rate by year-end, detailing the per-mile revenue outlook for both business models ahead of a planned 2027 shift to driver-as-a-service. The company reported a $270 million second-quarter loss.
An Erie commercial driver faces 22 charges after police claim his semi-truck struck nine vehicles at West 12th and Myrtle streets. Court records show bail was denied, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 7.
Atlas Energy Solutions expanded its Kodiak partnership to a second Permian load-out point and set a 100-truck driverless target for mid-2027, up from 28 today.
Authorities recovered 18 vehicles worth more than $1 million while investigating nine reported thefts valued at $876,500.
Hirschbach Motor Lines’ CTO explains why the carrier chose a startup partner over building AI in-house, and how automation is reshaping driver communication today.
A Business That Did Not Exist Yet In 1997, if a fleet needed a repair, the truck went to a shop. That was the entire menu. That was the year Bob Dickinson started what became Dickinson Fleet Services out of a small operation in Indianapolis, and his grandsons Kyle and Kevin Coltrain grew up around […]
Officers recovered 32,000 pounds of precious metal after stopping two suspects as they left the property. Police credited license plate reader technology with helping the investigation.
Senators Todd Young and Andy Kim introduced legislation targeting operators that return under new names, ownership structures, or USDOT numbers.
Lanesurf works brokers’ loads for them. It starts the moment a load appears rather than in a scramble the morning it has to move, so your team walks into the morning to pre-vetted carrier options already sitting on the loads, priced and ready to book. “Two out of every three loads we move already have […]
Uber Freight has named logistics technology veteran Amir Pelleg as chief product officer.
Georgia is moving ahead with an idea that most of the country has only talked about: a stretch of interstate where the trucks get their own road. The Georgia Department of Transportation has released a construction timeline for its I-75 Commercial Vehicle Lanes project, and the plan is concrete. Design work will be finalized and […]
