What’s new for 2025 The IRS has finalized inflation adjustments that raise several popular employer benefit caps for the 2025 tax year. Key changes affect health care flexible spending accounts (FSAs), qualified transportation (commuter/parking) benefits, and employer-provided adoption assistance—programs many fleets use to compete for drivers and back-office talent. The…
National Overview — Wed, Nov 5, 2025 A Pacific system keeps the Northwest and northern California unsettled with periods of heavy rain, gusty winds, and a limited flash‑flood threat. Farther east, a vigorous disturbance brings strong, potentially damaging winds and some thunderstorms from the northern Mid‑Atlantic into southern New England.…
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 a two‑month stretch in which extra trucks were coming online…
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 employees on Tuesday said the union plans to press the…
America’s fast-moving commercial driver’s license overhaul is already reshaping the driver pool. Within days, state licensing offices began pausing non‑domiciled CDL transactions and roadside inspectors intensified English‑language enforcement, sidelining thousands of drivers — many from immigrant communities that have long supplied capacity in longhaul, drayage, and local P&D. Ukrainian drivers,…
TRUCK OEMS WIN PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST CARB CLEAN TRUCKS PARTNERSHIP A federal judge granted DTNA, Paccar, Volvo Group NA and Navistar a preliminary injunction, relieving them from complying with California’s Clean Truck Partnership requirements while the suit proceeds, dealing CARB a legal setback. The manufacturers argue the pact is pre-empted…
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 freight-market conditions as of November 4, 2025. Weekly Overview The…
A federal judge has temporarily barred the California Air Resources Board from enforcing its Clean Truck Partnership, siding with four major heavy‑duty manufacturers who say the pact collides with federal law. In an order issued Friday, Oct. 31, U.S. District Judge Dena M. Coggins granted a preliminary injunction that pauses…
Freight brokerages are staring at an unusual two-front war: demand that won’t cooperate and costs that won’t quit. The latest warning shot came this week via FreightWaves’ analysis arguing that 2026 will bring a wave of brokerage failures as spot rates rise for reasons unrelated to freight demand, compressing margins…
ACT Research’s latest read on the U.S. truckload market — highlighted by FreightWaves — points to a capacity base that’s shrinking rather than expanding into peak retail season. That matters because fewer seated trucks against even modest freight growth flips pricing power back toward carriers, first on the spot board…
