U.S. freight demand, spot rates, load availability, and market trends that impact owner-operators and carriers.
Freight market signals are increasingly pointing toward a goods-led slowdown in the U.S. economy. For truckers, the telltales are showing up first on the oceans and factory floors, then moving inland: softer export demand from Asia, wobblier U.S. manufacturing readings,…
Interstate Personnel Services — the employee-owned parent of Paschall Truck Lines — has added Minnesota-based J&R Schugel to its portfolio, a move that expands IPS’ capabilities into more temperature-controlled truckload and widens its Midwestern footprint. The combination, reported in trade…
Interstate Personnel Services (IPS), parent of Paschall Truck Lines, said it has added Minnesota-based J&R Schugel to its portfolio — a move that brings a sizable temperature‑controlled operation under an employee‑owned umbrella known for dry van strength. The combination gives…
Truckload carrier Heartland Express recorded another quarterly net loss for the third quarter of 2025, underscoring how a stubbornly weak freight market and excess capacity continue to outweigh cost actions and network pruning. The company’s latest results, published Friday, October…
Interstate Personnel Services (IPS) said refrigerated truckload carrier J&R Schugel is joining its portfolio, a move that instantly deepens IPS’s temperature-controlled footprint as shippers head into the late-October through Thanksgiving rush. The company positioned the addition as a way to…
Amazon is injecting $1.9 billion into its Delivery Service Partner network just as third‑quarter results show the company’s engine running hotter. For trucking and parcel operators, the timing signals where the next wave of freight and labor pressure may surface:…
Werner Enterprises is positioning for the turn by letting the market do the heavy lifting. Management told investors this week it expects industry capacity to keep thinning — aided in part by stepped-up enforcement on non‑domiciled CDL/B‑1 visa driving and…
XPO used pricing discipline and productivity gains to turn a weak shipment backdrop into stronger profits in the third quarter, a result that stands out in a still‑sluggish LTL market. The carrier’s adjusted earnings rose year over year and its…
XPO pushed profitability higher in the third quarter even as freight stayed soft, lifting adjusted EPS to $1.07 on $2.11 billion of revenue and trimming its North American LTL adjusted operating ratio to 82.7%—a 150-basis-point improvement year over year. Under…
On October 30, 2025, an early read on TFI International’s U.S. LTL business pointed to a recovery that’s gathering, but not yet running — a blend of service improvements and lingering cost pressure that keeps the turnaround firmly “in progress.”…
