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Paladin Capital Inc. is seeking buyers for carriers the Brentwood, Tenn.-based holding company owns, including the Quickway Family of Cos., after filing for bankruptcy court protection Jan. 26. In a Chapter 11 filing with U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, CEO Brian Hall said Paladin was filing for court protection to preserve jobs and [...]

Access to truck parking for the nation’s commercial drivers will increase because of recent legislation Congress and President Donald Trump approved Feb. 3. As part of fiscal 2026 funding legislation Trump signed late Feb. 3, ending the partial government shutdown, truck parking projects will receive $200 million. The Federal Highway Administration will be tasked with managing the additional funds, which [...]

‌Weather Updates:  ‌Freeze protection services are currently active in Alaska, Eastern and Northern Canada, Northern Minnesota, and the New England market. For shipments containing freezable freight, please ensure to add freeze protection service. Please note that this service brings additional charges and transit delays. ‌ ‌Small Parcel Updates:  ‌Holiday Closures: For Presidents Day 2026, USPS [...]

A wave of closures and layoffs across trucking, logistics, warehousing and transportation-linked manufacturing reflects a freight market still struggling to regain momentum in early 2026. Since mid-January 3,147 freight and manufacturing job cuts have been announced. Weak consumer demand, excess capacity, contract losses and network consolidation have pushed shippers and logistics providers to shrink footprints, [...]

Slip Robotics rolled out a new loading and unloading platform called SlipLift, expanding its autonomous technology into heavier freight, regional distribution and last-mile delivery operations, the company said Feb. 3. The system shifts the company’s approach by separating the robot from the freight it moves. Slip Robotics said the design lets a smaller number of [...]

The national average price per gallon of diesel gasoline saw another sharp weekly increase, according to data issued today by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rising 5.7 cents, the national diesel average, for the week of February 2, came in at $3.681 per gallon, following a 9.4-cent increase, to $3.50, for the [...]

U.S. container imports ended 2025 in a four-month skid that’s likely to lengthen this year as trade shifts to other economies to avoid President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to a shipping industry analyst’s tally of the country’s top 10 ports. Inbound volumes in December dropped 6.4% from a year earlier to 1.9 million 20-foot-container units, after [...]

The fourth quarter edition of the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index, which was released today, showed gains and declines, for freight shipments and expenditures, to varying degrees. This report, which was initially launched in the third quarter of 2017, is comprised of data on freight shipping volumes and spend on both a national and regional [...]

Truckload transportation is typically volatile, and severe winter weather has long been a catalyst for temporary disruptions, but recent data suggests that this year’s impacts are amplified by underlying market conditions. The National Truckload Index (NTI) has hit $2.71/mile, inclusive of fuel, revealing notable turbulence in spot rates during January, echoing patterns from previous years [...]

LTL Carrier Expects More Purchases in Coming Months Estes Express Lines recently closed on the purchase of six additional terminals, a reflection of opportunities that exist despite the challenging freight market, President and Chief Operating Officer Webb Estes told Transport Topics in an exclusive interview. The terminals are in Charleston, W.Va.; Greenville, S.C.; Kansas City, […]