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Diesel Eases From Record as Truckers Await Details of Federal Dyed-Diesel Order
The national average price of on-highway diesel fell for a second straight week to $6.199 per gallon for the week of Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That was down 18.3 cents from the prior week and...
From $5.8 Billion to Advisory: A Run of Logistics Deals Built Around Data
Three acquisitions since late August, at C.H. Robinson, Descartes and Redwood Logistics, have each been framed around data, AI or both. The largest was C.H. Robinson’s $5.8 billion cash-and-stock agreement to acquire RXO, announced October 5. The deal would combine...
Retail’s $849.9 Billion Returns Problem Starts Upstream in Freight Execution, Report Argues
U.S. retailers projected $849.9 billion in merchandise returns for 2025, or 15.8% of annual sales, according to the National Retail Federation’s 2025 Retail Returns Landscape, produced with Happy Returns, a UPS company. NRF estimated that 9% of all returns were...
Researchers Flag Logistics-Themed Phishing Ahead of Holiday Shipping Peak
Researchers at EfficientIP say security teams should watch for delivery and logistics-themed phishing lures heading into the holiday shipping season. The warning follows a first half of 2026 in which the sector's share of phishing detections more than tripled. Logistics...
Record Diesel Prices Squeeze Owner-Operators as Shippers Weigh Broader Freight Cost Pressures
Diesel reached a record $6.53 per gallon on Sept. 22, according to AAA figures cited by The Wall Street Journal, which reported that prices are up 77% over the past year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration's weekly survey put the...
Spot Broker Margins Slip to 14.7% as Pricing Index Moves Into Balanced Territory
Freight brokers kept less on awarded spot loads in August, with awarded margin falling from 16.5% to 14.7% on a four-week average basis, according to the August edition of the Tabi Pricing Pressure Index (TPPI) from freight quoting software company...
What Record Diesel Means for Shippers, From the Carrier Side of the Table
By Douglas Hindman, CEO, GR Holdings U.S. retail diesel reached a record $6.505 a gallon as of September 19, according to AAA, and the Energy Information Administration's weekly on-highway average has set back-to-back records of its own, reaching $6.285 for...
The Broker’s New Burden of Proof
By Michael Caney, Chief Commercial Officer, Highway For years, freight brokers have told shippers that their carrier network is trusted. Many could not produce a record of what that trust was actually based on. This spring, a unanimous Supreme Court...
Steel and Paint Suppliers Still Price Above Their Own Costs, Procurement Index Finds
Output prices at U.S. paint manufacturers and steel mills are still running above what those producers pay for inputs, years after the 2021-22 commodity shock, according to a new analysis from procurement software company WTP Buynamics. Paint and coating makers...
Air Bridges, Waived Tolls and a Shuttered Port: Logistics Answers Colombia’s Earthquake
A Boeing 737 freighter landed at El Edén International Airport in Armenia, Colombia, on Saturday, the first aircraft of its type to work bulk cargo at the field. The aircraft was ferried from São Paulo because its performance envelope fit...
Broker Margin Slides to 16.9% as Quote Volume Jumps 15% in July
Brokers got more shots at spot freight in July and earned less on each one. Awarded broker margin on U.S. spot freight fell 4.5 points month over month in July, from 21.4% to 16.9%, while spot quote volume rose 15.2%...
Logistics Growth Stories Stand Out on the 2026 Inc. 5000
Despite a freight recession that has dragged on for years, fast-growing logistics companies claimed their usual sizable share of the 2026 Inc. 5000, released August 11. The annual ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies, published by Inc., measures percentage revenue...
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...
Circle Logistics Names Baraka Nevels Vice President, Branch Development
Circle Logistics has hired Baraka Nevels as vice president of branch development, the company announced Sept. 8. Nevels will lead growth strategy and operational performance across the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based 3PL's branch network, which spans 32 U.S. locations. Nevels has...
Loftware CPO Michelle Northey Named 2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum Trailblazer
Loftware Chief Product Officer Michelle Northey has been named a recipient of the 2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award in the Trailblazers category, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based product identification software company announced Aug. 17. The award is presented by...
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...
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