A trade group is suing to strip California and New York of the power to issue commercial driver's licenses entirely. Plus: $3/mi is now breakeven, DOT wants to rate every carrier, routing guides are falling apart, and more.
Shippers want the same things they’ve always wanted: reliable execution, fair pricing, and a partner who shows up prepared.
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Freight fraud is a multi-billion-dollar problem, and the old verification model is broken. Here’s the new standard every broker needs to build toward in 2026.
Every freight AI vendor quotes an automation rate. Almost none publish what's behind it. Here's the methodology question brokerages should be asking and what Chain's 3M-load dataset reveals.
Freight AI pilots succeed. Production deployments often don't. Augment CEO Harish Abbott on the change management gap — and what ops leaders need to do before the tech even matters.
Seven straight months of spot rate gains. Independent freight agents are built for this market. Here's what the thriving ones are doing differently.
The freight tech aisle has gone full AI. The ops floor has not. Here's what's actually moving the needle in 2026.
Plus, Utah hands down an $81M nuclear verdict, hundreds of Mexican driver visas revoked at the border, Q1 earnings roundup, and more in today's newsletter.
How Lloyd’s of London went from a dockside coffee shop to the backbone of global cargo insurance and why freight brokers still debate using it.
Plus, STG's path out of bankruptcy, Wyoming's "Truck Around and Find Out" operation, what "phantom capacity" means for Mexico lanes, and more in today's newsletter.
Plus, New York takes the CDL fight to federal court, a new wave of carrier and broker bankruptcies, cargo thieves are infiltrating vetted fleets from the inside — and more in today's newsletter.
Plus, a cabless autonomous truck just raised $24M, non-domiciled CDLs rules need clarifying, CSX posts a 26% profit jump while watching the UP-NS merger closely, and more in today's newsletter.
ICYMI: FreightCaviar is travelling across the U.S. Here's what the first three weeks have looked like: Sponsor meetups, subscriber photo shoots, premieres, truck stops, Elk Grove to Phoenix, and more. FOMO starts now.
Plus, the offshore dispatchers your safety score can't catch, why Hormuz stays closed even after the war ends, what Triumph Financial's invoice volumes say about where freight is headed, and more.
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