After three years of carriers surviving on ramen noodles and denial, the freight market has finally decided to show some mercy. According to FTR's spot market data, broker-posted dry van spot rates jumped sharply during the week ended July 3 and landed at an all-time ... Read More »

If you've been in fleet management or trucking long enough, you've developed a healthy skepticism about federal deadlines. The automatic emergency braking (AEB) mandate for heavy trucks has been "coming soon" for so long that some of us have started treating it like that friend ... Read More »

Remember when a dashcam was just a camera? It sat on the windshield, recorded video, and occasionally exonerated your driver when a sedan decided to brake-check a 40-ton vehicle. Simpler times. In 2026, calling these devices "dashcams" is like calling your smartphone a "telephone." The ... Read More »

Shift Toward Commercial Electrification Adopting alternative powertrains is no longer just a futuristic compliance exercise for commercial vehicle operators. Consequently, heavy-duty fleets are rapidly adjusting their procurement strategies to include alternative fuel vehicles. Specifically, a newly released June 2026 CALSTART market intelligence report outlines a ... Read More »

Nobody hands you a fleet budget manual on your first day. You get a spreadsheet, a stack of invoices, and a login to some software you have never seen before. Then someone asks how much your fleet costs per mile, and you realize you are ... Read More »

Every gallon of diesel your drivers buy is a transaction you either control or you don't. Without a fuel management system in place, cash and general-purpose credit cards leave you with almost zero visibility into what was bought, where, by whom, and whether it was ... Read More »

For most of the last two years, the Class 8 order board read like a doctor's waiting room: quiet, a little tense, everybody avoiding eye contact. Then May happened, and somebody apparently spiked the punch. North American Class 8 net orders rocketed to roughly 26,500 ... Read More »

Dash cameras are one of the most effective safety tools available to commercial fleets today. They are also one of the fastest ways to damage driver trust if you roll them out badly. The technology is not the hard part. The policy behind it is. ... Read More »

Your telematics system is generating data right now. Vehicle locations, engine hours, driver behavior events, fuel consumption, idle time — it never stops. For a new fleet manager, that volume of information can feel less like insight and more like noise. The good news is ... Read More »

If your trucks seem to pick up more tire write-ups when the weather heats up, the roadside-inspection data backs you up. Analysis of FMCSA violations from May 2024 through February 2026 shows tire violations rising and falling on a clean seasonal cycle — and the ... Read More »