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Jury Hits C.H. Robinson With $604M Verdict in First Major Post-Montgomery Trial
A Dallas County jury has handed down one of the largest nuclear verdicts ever recorded against the trucking industry, awarding roughly $604 million in a case that marks the first major test of broker liability standards since the Supreme Court's...
Only 1.4% of Carriers Can Handle Steel Freight, New Index Finds
A new quarterly index from TA Services, a third-party logistics provider based in Mansfield, Texas, estimates that just 1.4% of FMCSA-registered motor carriers in the U.S. are actually equipped to handle specialized steel freight. Out of a universe of more...
The Quiet Aftermath of Trump’s Jones Act Waiver
The most consequential shipping policy experiment in a century is about to hit its deadline. In March, the Trump administration issued a waiver of the Jones Act, the century-old law requiring that commodities moving between U.S. ports travel on vessels...
The Hormuz Closure Is No Longer a Crisis, it’s an Operating Condition.
The Strait of Hormuz story has entered a new phase, and it is one that most companies' risk playbooks were never written for. More than 400 vessels are stranded, freight rates are up 75%, and analysts warn Brent crude could...
Mariner Logistics Names Justin Turner CEO
Mariner Logistics has named Justin Turner as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, the Coppell, Texas-based asset-backed 4PL announced. Turner arrives with close to two decades in transportation and logistics leadership, most of it spent inside companies going through...
Report: Why Spare Parts Inventories and Customer Escalations Keep Rising Together
Spare parts inventories at manufacturers are sitting at record levels, and customer escalations are climbing right alongside them, according to research published in June by Unilog. Conventional inventory logic says those two lines should move in opposite directions, and the...
Tariff Volatility Is Driving Companies Into More Trade Zones Than Their Software Can Manage
Companies are responding to tariff volatility by leaning harder on foreign trade zones, and most of them are now running more zones than their software was built to manage. In a 2026 survey of 301 enterprise trade, supply chain, and...
Capacity, Not Demand, Is Tightening Cross-Border Freight, and Diesel Is Sending It to Rail
Moving freight across the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico has become measurably harder over the past several months, and the pressure is coming less from a surge in shipments than from a shortage of trucks to haul them. The...
Mariner Logistics Rolls Out Carrier Verification Standard After Supreme Court Ruling
Mariner Logistics, a full-service 4PL and managed transportation provider, today announced the Sentinel Protocol, a structured, multi-source carrier and driver verification standard applied to every shipment Mariner coordinates. The protocol is designed to produce documented, traceable evidence of rigorous due...
Is the Freight Recession Over?
For the past eighteen months, someone in this industry has declared the freight recession over roughly every six to eight weeks. Analysts, executives, economists — all taking their turn at the podium, all eventually walking it back. Craig Fuller himself...
With the Strait Closed, Aviation Is Rewriting Its Economics from the Ground Up
When the Strait of Hormuz closed, the effects on container shipping and trucking were immediate and well-documented, but the disruption to global aviation has been equally severe and, in several respects, more structurally consequential, because the aviation industry does not...
AI Is Writing More of the Software That Runs Logistics While Its Security Falls Behind
The more code an organization hands to artificial intelligence, the more likely it is to ship software with known security flaws. Companies where AI generated 81 to 100 percent of production code were nearly three times more likely to release...
China’s Softer Tone on Rare Earths Does Not Change U.S. Dependence
In May, China told the United States that its rare earth export controls are lawful and that it would address what it considers reasonable concerns about critical mineral access. The statement from China's Ministry of Commerce, reported by Reuters, followed...
PAVA Logistics Scaled to 200 Trucks Without Losing Control of Its Margins
Pavlo Vayda built PAVA Logistics the way most carriers say they want to build a trucking company but rarely do; slowly, with cash, and with a close eye on cost per mile. Founded in 2011 with a single truck, PAVA...
Diesel at $5.64, Ocean Rates Climbing, and a Strait That Won’t Reopen
Atlantic and Gulf port regions are running hot, West Coast gateways are absorbing outbound capacity pressure, and the domestic transportation market is taking simultaneous hits from fuel costs, enforcement activity, and rerouted ocean carrier networks. The common thread running through...
Tim Cook Built Apple’s Supply Chain. Now It Has to Exist Without Him.
When Tim Cook steps down as Apple's CEO on September 1st, the technology press will cover it as a leadership transition, but for the supply chain industry it is something more specific: a case study in what happens when 28...
The Supreme Court Just Validated What Good Brokers Have Been Doing All Along
The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling allowing freight brokers to face state negligence claims for negligent carrier selection is being welcomed by operationally serious brokers as long overdue recognition that carrier vetting is a safety decision, not a paperwork exercise. The...
Stalled on the Line: Why Freight Speed Now Decides Who Builds Cars
By Stuart Mitchell, VP of Finished Vehicles, Circle Logistics For most of the past decade, supply chain disruptions in automotive followed a familiar pattern: something breaks, the industry absorbs the hit, and operations return to normal. That conditioned how most...
The Freight Market Is Tightening, but Q1 Data Shows the Shift Is Structural.
Spot load posts climbed more than 70 percent year over year in February, outpacing available truck capacity by a margin that has not been seen in years, and the conditions driving that imbalance are not resolving. They are compounding. That...
Changing the Document Doesn’t Change the Rules. Changing Where the Risk Lives Is Another Matter.
By Ben Silas, Group Chief Commercial Officer, EFM Global, with contribution from Catherine Stephens, Head of International Trade Services, Business West Today, June 1, 2026, the United Kingdom, European Union, Norway, and Switzerland will stop accepting paper ATA carnets as...
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