U.S. freight demand, spot rates, load availability, and market trends that impact owner-operators and carriers.
The brief spring in the U.S. freight market’s step didn’t last through summer. New analysis shows the third quarter gave back the second quarter’s progress as shipment volumes fell and pricing power shifted unevenly across lanes and modes — a…
GXO logged a record third quarter and signaled it’s leaning into a bigger North American footprint, a combination that could add steady freight to warehouse-adjacent trucking lanes as peak season winds down. The contract logistics provider reported Q3 revenue of…
Price momentum returned to trucking in October as the Logistics Managers’ Index held steady at 57.4, but the mix shifted decisively toward transportation. Utilization jumped and prices accelerated while capacity growth eased, breaking a two‑month stretch in which capacity had…
Introduction Shippers enter early November with freight fundamentals that are gradually improving on a year-over-year basis but mixed in the near term. As of November 3, 2025, van, reefer, and flatbed markets all show sharply higher load-to-truck ratios versus a…
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is turning up the heat on UPS over the company’s growing reliance on Roadie, its gig-based delivery arm, arguing the work may overlap with union-protected jobs. FreightWaves reported Tuesday, November 4, that the union plans…
A UPS cargo jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday, November 4, forcing an overnight shutdown of the company’s Worldport air hub and leaving at least seven people dead and 11 injured, according to…
UPS’s global air hub in Louisville went dark overnight after a Honolulu-bound MD-11 freighter crashed and erupted in flames just beyond the departure end of Runway 17R on Tuesday, November 4, killing at least seven people and injuring 11 others,…
Transportation prices finally outran capacity growth in October, a notable shift that hints at firmer conditions for carriers heading into the holidays. The latest Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI) shows the pricing subindex rising sharply while the capacity subindex decelerated, breaking…
UPS is facing new heat from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters over the company’s growing reliance on Roadie’s crowdsourced drivers for parcel deliveries, a flashpoint that punctures the uneasy truce since last year’s national agreement. A report shared among UPS…
Introduction Between October 27 and November 2, 2025, the USDOT logged 3,075 new registrations across carriers, brokers, and other registrants. This analysis unpacks week-over-week changes by segment, highlights the state-level hot spots each day, and situates the numbers in current…
