Amazon just became a direct rival to the biggest names in parcel, freight, and 3PL services. Plus: shippers are paying a lot more, your carrier check may be passing thieves through, a $4M cargo theft recovery shows what's possible, and more.
"I think this is just one more way that you can go about finding quality capacity to better run your operation.”
A 20-year veteran of the freight industry, with 60k TikTok followers, argued that small carriers can't survive without brokers. Plus: the FBI's PSA, Steam Logistics sues two of its own, Ohio Turnpike comes for 315 carriers, and more.
Amazon just became a direct rival to the biggest names in parcel, freight, and 3PL services. Plus: shippers are paying a lot more, your carrier check may be passing thieves through, a $4M cargo theft recovery shows what's possible, and more.
"I think this is just one more way that you can go about finding quality capacity to better run your operation.”
A 20-year veteran of the freight industry, with 60k TikTok followers, argued that small carriers can't survive without brokers. Plus: the FBI's PSA, Steam Logistics sues two of its own, Ohio Turnpike comes for 315 carriers, and more.
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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.
“I knew that a digital brokerage was just another broker with a digital app.”
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.
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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.
"I think some TMS's are failing because they don’t understand what brokers do every day."
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