Truck capacity is stretched tight and motor carriers are heading into peak retail season with a full head of steam. Just how tight is it? A leading indicator, Truckstop.com’s outbound tender rejection ...

Freight brokers are on the front lines of the trucking industry. They act as an intermediary between shippers and carriers, which is not an easy job. Plenty of freight brokers claim to have been under ...

Jeremy Robison is the president of Tetra Capital, an independent company offering freight bill factoring services to trucking companies of all sizes. He’s dealt with a variety of trucking fiscal ...

BOISE, Idaho, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- truckstop.com today announced the launch of Truckstop Private Loads, a powerful new feature that allows freight brokers to efficiently engage their ...

This story appears in the July 12 print edition of Transport Topics. As the recession appears to be waning and freight shipments increase, trucking-related firms such as the Allen Lund Cos. say they ...

According to Truckstop.com research, nearly 80% of owner-operators indicate they just don’t like to negotiate rates with a broker. That may be the case, but it's a fact that a better understanding of ...

Disruption. Transparency. Visibility. Efficiency. Trust. Collaboration. Algorithms. Artificial Intelligence. This is the vocabulary of the rapidly changing world of technology and logistics. Some ...

Motor carriers aren’t the only transportation entities dealing with “nuclear verdicts” in lawsuits resulting from truck crashes. Brokers and third-party logistics companies can get caught up in these ...

Freight brokers have long been considered intermediaries in the transportation chain, more akin to travel agents than carriers. But in recent years, that role has shifted under the weight of ...

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