Motor Freight

Truckload (TL) shippers face increasingly tough market conditions as the $403 billion market is set to tighten by Q1 2025, according to FTR’s Avery Vise. Analysts agree the market has bottomed out, and carriers like Knight-Swift and Werner are cautious about committing capacity at current rates. Shippers should expedite TL sourcing events to avoid skyrocketing rates if the economy rebounds. Knight-Swift and Landstar report drops in volumes, while Werner grows dedicated segment revenue despite competitive pressures. In rail and intermodal sectors,...

This downloadable magazine examines the rising costs for motor carriers due to tighter emissions regulations and labor costs, and explores the industry's shift towards decarbonization with various alternative fuel vehicles.

The 2024 Less-than-Truckload (LTL) survey explores how shippers collaborate with LTL carriers to secure necessary capacity while addressing new challenges, with insights into contract rate trends, e-commerce impacts, management strategies, spot contract usage, shipment volumes, and respondent demographics.

Prepare to transform your last-mile strategy by exploring the ebook "5 Last-Mile Trends to Have on Your Radar," which provides actionable insights for aligning e-commerce with customer needs, enhancing delivery experiences, optimizing costs, and ensuring positive interactions for both customers and drivers.

Private fleets are changing the trucking landscape by gaining market share and improving freight management discipline. As we head toward this year’s peak ground transportation season, let’s examine how private fleets perform compared to their common carrier rivals—and what shippers can learn from some best practices of the best-run fleets.

Entering into some form of asset-pooling agreement, operationally enabled by AI-based solutions, can help reduce non-productive expenses, improve service, enhance margin and lead to greater market share.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tom Nightingale, CEO, AFS Logistics LLC, a 3PL and freight audit and payment company.

Landstar Executive Vice President of Specialized Freight Services Al Reisman

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There’s safety in numbers and in cooperation. That’s what three major worldwide heavy truck manufacturers seem to be saying in getting ready for vehicle electrification. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Volvo Trucks North America, Navistar and Daimler Truck North America are trying to reduce transportation's carbon footprint by taking a collective approach.

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Shippers are the main beneficiaries of new freight audit and payment data. They’re now tapping into more auxiliary services such as freight bidding, modal analysis and international services—and the most savvy operations are benefiting by realizing lower, better-managed freight bills with analysis thrown in for good measure

About a dozen trucking companies bought properties at a court-supervised auction that resold about three-fourths of Yellow’s properties for a total of just under $1.9 billion.

With excess capacity and lower rates, the digital freight matching (DFM) market is keeping its eye on the ball as the segment ramps up to leverage AI to gain visibility and improve real-time monitoring capabilities.

Solera has created a comprehensive guide to help fleets and drivers navigate the challenges they face, offering insights on fleet safety, risk mitigation, driver skills enhancement, and fleet operation optimization.