A candid market panel at Trimble’s Insight conference in New Orleans this week framed trucking’s stubborn downturn in stark terms: freight demand remains muted and the driver population is edging lower, leaving carriers waiting on a catalyst that hasn’t arrived. The session — featuring FreightWaves’ Craig Fuller, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Lee…
Why this matters today Los Angeles Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) has issued the latest “List of Permitted Waste Haulers,” with a report run date of November 19, 2025. If you’re dispatching roll-offs, subbing on demolition jobs, or hauling construction and demolition (C&D) debris within city limits, this roster is your…
National Overview — Wednesday, November 19, 2025 A slow-moving Pacific low keeps the Southwest unsettled today with periodic rain and a few thunderstorms. Heavy mountain snow continues in the Sierra Nevada and the southern Utah ranges. Moisture begins shifting into the Southern Plains tonight, bringing increasing showers and storms. The…
Federal regulators are preparing a closely watched experiment to test whether more flexible split-sleeper options can improve safety and productivity. But among drivers and safety advocates, a louder question is gaining traction: will added flexibility become another lever for dispatch pressure? FreightWaves’ reporting underscores a rising fear that a well-intentioned…
Harbinger has closed a $160 million Series C and secured an initial FedEx order for 53 battery‑electric trucks, a one‑two punch that puts the young manufacturer squarely in the center of the medium‑duty transition many parcel and service fleets have been waiting for. The deal gives FedEx a near‑term pathway…
At Trimble’s Insight conference in New Orleans this week, executives and customers confronted a freight market that still isn’t giving carriers much to cheer about. The headline takeaway: volumes remain under pressure and the available driver pool is thinning — a combination that’s forcing fleets to squeeze more productivity from…
Introduction For the week of November 10–16, 2025, new U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) registrations totaled 2,667. The dataset shows pronounced weekday strength led by carriers, a typical weekend lull, and continued dominance by Texas, California, and Florida at the state level. Against a backdrop of soft freight demand but…
FedEx’s move to streamline its U.S. parcel and air operations into a more unified “one-network” model is arriving just in time. The FreightWaves report outlines how the carrier’s restructuring aims to cut handoffs, share assets across Express and Ground, and pivot faster as trade flows shift—changes that matter for every…
NEW ORLEANS — Trimble used its Insight 2025 conference to make its most expansive AI push yet, arguing that the fastest way to ease trucking’s chronic “swivel-chair” inefficiencies is to embed intelligence directly into everyday workflows — not bolt it on after the fact. Executives framed the strategy as a…
A national highway safety organization is urging federal regulators not to move ahead with proposals that would let some truck drivers stretch their on‑duty day beyond the current 14‑hour limit, warning the plan risks amplifying fatigue and coercion rather than fixing root causes like detention. The call comes as the…
