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Einride and EASE Logistics Put Driverless Electric Trucks Into Daily Freight Service in Ohio
Two cabless, driverless electric trucks from Einride are now moving freight every day between EASE Logistics warehouses in Marysville, Ohio, the companies announced Oct. 6. The SAE Level 4 trucks run scheduled routes on EASE property and local public roads...
What Diesel Export Uncertainty Means for Supply Chain and Inventory Planning
By Tasos Angelopoulos - CEO at StockIQ Technologies Geopolitical conflicts can create supply chain risks well beyond the countries directly involved, particularly when export bans or other trade restrictions are being considered at the highest levels of government. That risk...
Shippers Should Budget for 5% to 8% Higher Truckload Linehaul Rates in 2027
Shippers setting 2027 transportation budgets should plan for U.S. truckload linehaul rates 5% to 8% higher than this year, according to the TRAFFIX Trends Q4 2026 market update from TRAFFIX, a third-party logistics provider based in Chicago. The forecast excludes...
Too Many Control Tower Alerts Leave Service Parts Teams Reacting to Stockouts
Control towers that manage service parts networks are generating more alerts than planning teams can work through, and most corrective action still happens after a part has stocked out, according to an October 2026 industry research report from Unilog.SC, a...
Spot Broker Margins Rise to 15.5% in September as Benchmark Rates Firm
Freight brokers kept more margin on spot truckload loads they won in September, even as the gap between their quotes and benchmark market rates narrowed, according to the September 2026 Tabi Pricing Pressure Index (TPPI) from Tabi Connect, a rate...
Service Parts Teams Rush Parts After Stockouts Their Control Towers Saw Coming, Research Finds
Service parts organizations mostly use their control towers to react after a stockout, even as those systems flag hundreds to thousands of alerts a week, according to Unilog.SC’s October 2026 Industry Research Report. Four of five global equipment makers surveyed...
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...
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