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For the Road Ahead

Detention-to-cash covers the full chain from dock delay to recovered payment. For most carriers and brokers, that chain still leaks revenue in ways they could avoid. Trucking detention is the excessive time a driver spends at a shipper or receiver facility waiting to load or unload, typically beyond a standard two-hour free period. It acts as […]

Of all the forces reshaping diesel prices in trucking heading into 2026, the one that just landed is the most dramatic: the largest single-week price jump since the EIA started tracking the series in 1994. National retail went from roughly $3.90 to $4.86 per gallon in the first week of March—a 96-cent move that hit […]

The Supreme Court’s Montgomery case may look like a narrow legal fight over federal preemption. In practice, it is a test of whether your carrier-selection process is disciplined enough to survive scrutiny. For years, broker liability sat in the background. Something Legal worried about. Something insurance mentioned at renewal. Something ops assumed would stay somebody […]

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about freight brokerage in 2026: most brokerages know exactly how much margin they made on a load three or four days after the truck unloaded. Some take a week. A few are still chasing invoice approvals from the last quarter. That gap — between delivery and the invoice hitting the shipper’s […]

Today, the pressure is coming from three sides at once: cost volatility, compliance-driven capacity tightening, and rising legal liability expectations. Delilah’s Law is the clearest signal yet.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about freight brokerage in 2026: most brokerages aren’t growing because their salespeople are better. They’re growing because their software stopped fighting them. Walk into the average mid-market brokerage, and you’ll see the same picture. A handful of reps quoting from spreadsheets. Carrier reps copy-paste rate confirmations between email, a TMS, and […]

Dispatch-to-cash is the full chain from completed move to collected payment, and for most carriers and brokers, it’s the biggest margin lever they’ve never properly engineered.

Let’s be honest about how most trucking companies actually run their dispatch board: it’s a spreadsheet. Maybe two. Probably with conditional formatting that one person on the team understands, and a tab nobody touches because it broke in 2022. Spreadsheets are not a bad starting point. They are cheap, flexible, and every dispatcher knows how […]

Carriers are folding at a faster clip, the oversupply that’s suppressed rates for two-plus years is finally thinning out, and early signs of rebalancing are starting to show up in the data.