39 posts tagged with “trucking”

Class 8 safety sensors, LiDAR-enabled collision mitigation, insurance pressure, and nuclear verdict exposure are turning fleet safety technology into a carrier procurement requirement.

Trucking nuclear verdicts, broker liability cases, and subcontracted freight exposure are turning carrier qualification into an auditable risk-control discipline.

Deferred fleet maintenance from the long freight recession is turning into a shipper risk as utilization recovers and truckload capacity tightens.

Q2 freight brokerage rates are moving through a capacity-sensitive market. Brokers and shippers need lane-level rate strategy, not static assumptions.

Improving trucking credit and balance-sheet signals are early warnings that capacity discipline, carrier survivability, and bid behavior are changing.

Diesel’s May 25 average of $5.523 per gallon shows why shippers need fuel volatility, surcharge controls, and oil-risk scenarios built into routing guides.

The Supreme Court's rejection of Florida's truck-license lawsuit does not remove CDL, roadside enforcement, and driver qualification risk from shipper routing guides.

A proposed 91,000-pound truck pilot would change more than payload limits. It could reshape rail-versus-truck economics, procurement assumptions, sustainability claims, and modal planning.

Commercial truck insurance premiums are rising faster than inflation even as injury and fatal crash rates improve. Here is what shippers should ask carriers and brokers before those costs hit freight bids.

Truckload capacity is showing less slack after three weak earnings years, while LTL pricing strengthens. Shippers should rebuild routing guides before tender pressure returns.