Ask most fleet managers where their numbers live and you’ll get a tour: a telematics portal here, a shop system there, a finance spreadsheet someone updates on Fridays, and a handful of other platforms that each cover one slice of the operation. Every piece holds ... Read More »
Heading into the final quarter of 2026, freight costs are moving in only one direction. The latest TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index, released October 13, projects truckload rates at their highest point since early 2022, LTL rates at an all-time high, and record pricing in ... Read More »
C.H. Robinson has agreed to acquire RXO in a $5.8 billion cash-and-stock deal announced October 5. The deal brings together the largest and third-largest truck brokerages in the United States and is widely described as the biggest brokerage merger on record. The combined company will ... Read More »
September is supposed to be when trucking earns its winter cushion. This year it brought a run of court filings instead. In a new analysis, EKA Solutions CEO JJ Singh looks at why 16 trucking companies sought bankruptcy protection in less than a month, and ... Read More »
The fleet-technology market just got more concentrated. In July 2026, Geotab announced it had acquired the commercial operations of Verizon Connect's international telematics business, taking over customer relationships and operations across a swath of markets in Europe and Australia. For fleet decision-makers, the deal is ... Read More »
On August 10, 2026, FMCSA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would formally codify a driver's failure to meet the English-language proficiency (ELP) requirement as an out-of-service violation. For carriers, this is the moment a policy shift that has been building for ... Read More »
Every summer, thousands of commercial vehicles get pulled in for a hard look at one of the most safety-critical systems on the truck. This year the window is set: the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) has scheduled Brake Safety Week for August 23–29, 2026, and ... Read More »
Your People Weren't Hired to Push Screens Walk the floor of almost any freight operation and you'll see something strange: skilled, experienced professionals spending their day copying numbers from one system into another. Checking a rate in one tab, re-keying it in a second, reconciling ... Read More »
On May 15, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that federal preemption does not shield freight brokers from state negligent hiring claims. Justice Barrett's opinion held that the FAAAA's safety exception covers exactly this kind of suit. Brokers who select unsafe carriers ... Read More »
Few vehicles on the road are harder to drive safely than a loaded concrete mixer. Ten yards of wet concrete sitting high in a rotating drum gives a mixer truck a center of gravity that shifts constantly, an aggressive off-road duty cycle, and a delivery ... Read More »
