U.S. freight demand, spot rates, load availability, and market trends that impact owner-operators and carriers.
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…
Canada Post resumed limited mail and parcel movement on Saturday, October 11, after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) shifted from a two‑week, nationwide shutdown to rotating walkouts that start at 6 a.m. in each time zone. The change…
A. Duie Pyle is stepping beyond its Northeast stronghold with a new cross-border less-than-truckload service linking Mexico to the U.S., built around handoffs at Laredo and El Paso and a model that integrates Pyle’s tech with partner cross-docks. The carrier…
Canada Post employees returned to work Saturday under a rotating-strike model, ending a two‑week national shutdown but ushering in an unstable operating environment that will ripple through freight and parcel networks across Canada and the cross‑border market. The Canadian Union…
