Heartland Express posted another quarterly loss as the prolonged freight recession continued to blunt pricing and utilization, but management highlighted steady month-to-month improvement and said a broad market turn is still more likely next year than in the coming months. The truckload carrier reported third-quarter operating revenue of $196.5 million…
Interstate Personnel Services (IPS), the employee-owned parent of Paschall Truck Lines, has added New Ulm, Minnesota-based J&R Schugel to its platform, creating a combined fleet of nearly 2,000 tractors and about 6,000 trailers. The move, announced Friday, October 31, strengthens IPS with temperature-controlled capacity while keeping the deal within an…
Waabi has integrated its AI “Driver” into Volvo’s purpose-built autonomous truck platform, a sign that long-haul autonomy is shifting from pilot projects to OEM-level productization. The move aligns a next‑gen virtual driver with a factory-ready tractor — a pairing aimed at getting fleets something they can actually order, insure, maintain…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is preparing to push trucking enforcement beyond drivers and carriers to the shipping docks themselves — a shift that could put shippers and receivers on the hook when they enable or ignore noncompliant operations. In remarks highlighted by FreightWaves, Duffy said the next phase of…
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, and only tactical, short-lived bumps in ocean spot pricing. Together,…
What’s on the board right now Remote openings tied to trucking and logistics are alive and well in California—especially in sales, brokerage/agent, recruiting, and some dispatch functions. As of October 29, 2025, Indeed’s California results show eight “remote” or work‑from‑home roles across the trucking ecosystem, including: Freight Forwarding Sales Executive…
U.S. Trucking Weather Briefing — Sunday, November 2, 2025 Plan for a split day nationally: the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies stay wet and unsettled with areas of strong wind in parts of Montana, while the central and eastern U.S. start chilly and trend milder. A Pacific-driven front spreads rain…
Australia’s WiseTech Global — the new owner of e2open — is under fresh scrutiny after a police search tied to alleged share trading by founder Richard White earlier this week, an escalation that lands squarely in the middle of a major U.S. supply chain software integration used by shippers, brokers…
Heartland Express reported a third-quarter net loss of $8.3 million, or 11 cents per share, on operating revenue of $196.5 million, extending a multi-quarter stretch in the red but showing sequential operating improvement across the period. Management said the company’s operating ratio improved each month in the quarter, finishing at…
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 coverage on Oct. 31, points to a materially larger operation…
