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Brent is up more than $8 since the start of the year when bears were expected to prevail The benchmark diesel price used as the basis for most fuel surcharges inched up this week, the fourth consecutive week of increases, in the midst of an oil market that still is pushing higher. The average weekly [...]

Weather Updates:  Freeze protection services are currently active in Alaska, Canada, East of the Rockies through Colorado to 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. A strong Arctic outbreak driving frigid air into U.S. is delivering heavy snow and blizzard conditions [...]

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 [...]