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October Market Update: Seasonal Demand Creates Regional Capacity Pressure
October 5, 2026
October is now underway, bringing the truckload market into the opening stretch of the fourth quarter. Fall harvests remain active, retailers are moving deeper into holiday inventory planning, grocery networks…
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Diesel Fuel Update: Crude Prices Continue to Ease While Freight Rates Stay Firm
October 5, 2026
Energy markets remain unsettled as conflict involving Iran and concerns about crude oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz continue to influence global supply expectations. The Strait of Hormuz is…
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Freight Market Update: Flatbed Capacity Tightens as Spot Rates Climb
October 5, 2026
The truckload market is beginning October with firmer pricing and increasingly different conditions across equipment types. Overall tender rejections remain elevated, the national dry van rate moved higher, and flatbed…
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October Truckload Market Outlook: Regional Pressure Builds as the Fourth Quarter Begins
September 28, 2026
October moves the truckload market out of September’s transition period and into the opening stretch of the fourth quarter. Fall harvests remain active, retailers are moving deeper into holiday inventory…
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Ford Presents New F-Vision

Fresh Plaza (www.freshplaza.com) At the IAA 2018 fair, Ford presented the F-Vision at their stand. The F-Vision is a concept truck, and Ford didn’t release much information about the vehicle. It has an electric drive, and the F-Vision can drive autonomously. The vehicle has cameras instead of mirrors.

Brooks Brothers Refashions Its Supply Chain for Modern Retail

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The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com), Jennifer Smith Brooks Brothers, the 200-year-old retailer known for classic suits and button-down shirts, is giving its supply chain a 21st-century overhaul. The goal is to fulfill orders more nimbly and speed up delivery to customers by tapping into inventory at Brooks Brothers Group’s network of 260 retail locations in […]

Local Leads the Way In Ohio Produce Sales Trends

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The Packer (www.thepacker.com), Jim Offner Ohio continues to be fertile ground for sales of locally grown produce. “Homegrown in Ohio is alive and well,” said Anthony Arena, owner of Columbus-based Arena Produce Co. Inc., which carries items from Ohio grower Buurma Farms. “We try to have the products in the stores we service — the same […]

Nation’s Largest Ports Report Record TEU Volume Levels Ahead of Tariffs

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Transport Topics (www.ttnews.com), Dan Ronan Business is booming at many of the nation’s largest ports, fueled by a strong U.S. economy and, according to experts, a rush to import and export goods before the Trump administration’s tariffs take hold on products from China and other nations. And at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s […]

Expect Truckload Market Volatility to Continue Through the Fall

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DAT (https://www.dat.com/blog/), Donald Broughton To say that the first half of 2018 was “a period of both extreme volatility and unprecedented imbalance between capacity and demand for trucking services in North America” at first sounds like hyperbole. But if you ask anyone who lived through it, they’ll probably tell you it’s an understatement. That raises […]

Ohio to Receive Funding Boost Through Recent Senate Bill

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Transport Topics (www.ttnews.com), Eleanor Lamb Ohio transportation projects will receive a funding boost through the recently passed U.S. Senate bill. The legislation, passed Aug. 1, is part of a package that includes measures for four appropriations subcommittees, including the subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies. The entire $154.2 billion package was […]

Consumer Spending Up Solid 0.4% in June

Freight Transportation

Transport Topics(www.ttnews.com), Marcio Jose Sanchez WASHINGTON — Consumer spending rose by a solid 0.4% in June, while a key gauge of inflation increased at an annual pace of 2.2% for a second straight month — the strongest back-to-back gains in six years. The gain in spending followed an even better 0.5% rise in May, which […]

DAT Freight Broker Benchmark: 41% More Load Volume Yields 78% Higher Revenue

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DAT (https://www.dat.com), Steve Blair Monthly revenue rose 78% for freight brokers in May on a 41% increase in load volume, to set new records for those two metrics. Brokers achieved 23% net operating profit, a solid outcome that beat May 2017 results but fell short of April’s record levels. Gross margins averaged 12.7% in May, […]

White House Reduces Trucking Rules, but Doesn’t Ease Enforcement, Attorneys Say

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Transport Topics (www.ttnews.com), Eric Miller INDIANAPOLIS — The deregulatory nature of the Trump administration threatens delay or elimination of several Obama-era trucking-related regulations, but those that remain on the books will continue to be aggressively enforced, panelists said at a law seminar here. RELATED: ATA’s Chris Spear cautions against further ELD exemptions “That’s what I’m seeing […]

Truck rules help produce with haulers hours-of-service, ELDs

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The Packer (www.thepacker.com), Tom Karst In a relief to produce haulers and the industry in general, the federal government has said hours-of-service rules don’t kick in until a driver goes 150 miles from the original pickup. The Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on June 7 published clarifications to trucking regulations that defined […]