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For the Road Ahead
Get expert tips, TMS strategies, and freight tech trends for brokers, carriers, and shippers, all in one place.
Get expert tips, TMS strategies, and freight tech trends for brokers, carriers, and shippers, all in one place.
AI wisdom means understanding that your business doesn’t run on algorithms. It runs on people, relationships, and split-second decisions when everything goes sideways.
The CDL crackdown isn’t going away. But carriers that track the right numbers, do the math, and stay ahead of compliance will thrive while everyone else panics.
The freight market has crashed before and will crash again, but the difference the next time will be whether you’ve learned to roll with the punches or are still waiting to get knocked out.
“They Are Not Stealing Your Trucks. They Are Stealing Your Login.” For most of my career, cybersecurity sat with the technology group. You hired competent people, you bought the tools, and the CEO asked about it once a year. That arrangement is finished, and freight is where the consequences are showing up first. A criminal […]
“Two New Rulings Just Made Double Brokering Your Problem” Two court rulings landed this month, and read together, they extend the same idea that produced the $604 million verdict against C.H. Robinson. Courts are looking past contracts and authorities and asking a simpler question: who actually controlled this load? We covered the borrowed employee theory […]
Underwriters have stopped pricing trucks and started pricing operations. Commercial auto has run a combined ratio above 100% for years, primary limits are shrinking, and cargo theft losses jumped 60% in a year. Landstar cut 35,000 carriers and renewed its auto liability flat. The pattern is hard to miss.
Everyone spent the summer getting ready for negligent hiring claims after Montgomery. Then a Dallas jury went somewhere else entirely, called a carrier’s driver a borrowed employee of the broker, and returned $604 million. You can’t vet your way out of that one. Here is the analysis, including why it may not survive appeal.
A refinery runs from a control room where every critical process is on one big screen, and the operators act on what moves. Freight has never had that room. EKA’s new Control Center AI delivers about 25 signals, sorted by severity, scoped to your role, with one click to the fix.
CSCMP just put its finger on the paradox: supply chains are more connected than ever and more fragmented than ever. Gartner’s data shows AI is exposing every seam. The fix is one operating environment where the data, the workflows, and now the AI agents all live together.
ATRI’s new cost study says trucking hit a record $2.336 a mile in 2025, in a year when fuel was flat, and freight was soft. Truckload margins came in at 0.4 percent. The same report shows exactly where the recoverable money sits: empty miles, dock time, fuel buying, and the back office.
Nobody signed up to spend the day copying numbers between screens. Bad data and disconnected systems did that to good people. Here is how clean data, one platform, and AI that handles the drudgery enrich the job, and turn screen pushers back into decision-makers.
The market is loud right now, and that noise is hiding a risk the 2026 State of Logistics Report just named: network drift. For a broker, it shows up as a carrier base that quietly decays, one rational decision at a time, until it’s expensive, thin, and exposed. Here is how to see it and stop it.
