U.S. freight demand, spot rates, load availability, and market trends that impact owner-operators and carriers.
Triumph’s latest look under the hood of its payments and factoring network underscores a reality many in trucking already feel on the road: despite a grinding, two-year market reset, owner-operators are still finding ways to hang on. FreightWaves’ reporting on…
Australia Post will pour A$320 million into a new parcel “super-hub,” a move that underscores a broader shift to bigger, more automated nodes designed to pull volume off a sprawling network and push it through fewer, faster facilities. The investment,…
Less-than-truckload pricing power isn’t just holding — it’s setting records. The LTL rate-per-pound component of the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index hit a new all-time high in the third quarter, standing roughly 65% above its January 2018 baseline, according to FreightWaves’…
Global container flows are setting fresh marks even as U.S.-bound demand cools — and now a new round of U.S.–China port fees threatens to shuffle service patterns again. For trucking fleets and intermodal shippers, that mix of record global volume…
Canada Post has begun the slow process of powering its network back up after a two-week shutdown, switching to rolling strikes that keep parts of the system moving while others pause. The phased restart is aimed at clearing trapped volumes…
Less-than-truckload carriers just notched a new high in third-quarter pricing, even as freight demand stayed lackluster. The latest AFS/TD Cowen index readings behind today’s report point to disciplined yield management — not volume — as the engine of LTL revenue…
Introduction The latest USDOT registration data for the week of October 6–12, 2025 shows a modest step down in total new filings, with a sharper pullback among motor carriers offset by pockets of growth in broker and “other” registrations. Midweek…
Truckload and drayage carriers are staring at a softer-than-normal peak season at U.S. ports and inland rail ramps. The cooling pulse of containerized freight is arriving just as a new layer of geopolitical and regulatory risk lands on ocean trades—factors…
Ports and rail ramps may be running smoothly, but trucking is where the squeeze will be felt. That’s the takeaway from ITS Logistics’ latest read of U.S. gateways, highlighted by FreightWaves: with import volumes slipping, terminals have time on their…
Port and rail ramp operations are running relatively smoothly, but import demand has thinned enough that trucking — especially drayage and inland intermodal — is set to feel the downstream pressure in the weeks ahead. That’s the core takeaway from…
