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Bosch has a cloud-based plan for load matching; Nikola’s high-pressure product and problems;, and Cummins’ creative stock buyback via spinoff

GP Transco is installing solar panels on its entire fleet of around 600 trucks after testing the tech on 10 trucks over a six-month period. The company says the technology will save around $1,700 per tractor per year.

In this edition: Another hit to AB5, and the Southern gold rush has come.

In this edition: Chiquita and Daikin Reefer continue with what works, new robots that can thrive in any temperature and happy Frozen Food month.

After numerous rides in autonomous trucks monitored by safety drivers in case of a mishap, I found it almost surreal to climb into Aurora Innovation’s Class 8 driverless truck, buckle […]

Target Circle 360 leaves The Stockout hosts asking who it is for.

Excess truckload capacity continues to push down rates and change shipper behaviors to a more transactional approach.

In this edition: Mexico comes for the top spot and a partnership to automate LTL.

In this edition: Kodiak’s autonomous trucks deliver for quick-service restaurants, vertical farms get an upcycle, and new sausages for the summer.

Shippers should facilitate supplier collaboration while bracing for potential freight market turn.

A big fine for Lordstown Motors and SuperTruck news carry the week over Work Truck Week and technology and maintenance event.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears poised to sign legislation that addresses predatory towing fees aimed at trucking companies.

In this edition: Why ESG initiatives matter now and the teamsters pull home another W.

In this edition: Medtech expands on the East Coast, a new chemical facility in Arizona and Barbie comes to the freezer aisle.

Natural gas, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles all vie to displace diesel. Which will win? Maybe all of them.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: massive storm heads for I80; WTT heads to SXM; container castles and more

Knight-Swift President and CEO David Jackson stepped down Tuesday after a nearly 24-year tenure at the company that saw many mergers and acquisitions, including an expansion into the LTL market.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter, Family Dollar’s mouse-infested warehouse; Walmart’s moves; layoffs continue.

In this edition: East Coast ports take center stage, demurrage charges get a hike, and another acquisition is complete.

In this edition: The Port of Oakland gets an A, the packaging revolution in pharma and the underwhelming performance of frozen food.

Hyliion is getting a second chance to make a viable business with its Karno technology that could help generate a buyer for the company.

Inside the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: Cell outage downs freight; Convoy returns; State of Freight recap; and more.

Charles Gracey of Hot Seat Services says recruitment can be difficult even in the best of circumstances, with only a tiny fraction of applicants getting an offer and successfully completing orientation.

In this edition: Port roundup and the Teamsters are holding strong.

In addition to key issues in lawsuit, parties at odds over scope and time frame.

In this edition: DHL grows again, flowers for a sweetheart, and Taco Bell’s latest craze.

Quiet and zero tailpipe emissions battery-electric trucks are gaining popularity across the industry for parts shipment to assembly plants.

Canadian transport and logistics provider TFI International plans to spin off Daseke as a separate company sometime in 2025.

In this edition: Mergers and acquisitions in 2024 and RXO finally shows its human side.

In this edition: Misfits Market moves to fulfillment, Interstate Cold Chain gets new equipment, and avocados are the Super Bowl winners.

Governmental order could place safety burdens on e-commerce giant.

Positive developments in the hydrogen space glossed over some tough underlying issues like sky-high hydrogen prices.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: XPO and Saia stock skyrocket; Super Bowl logistics; wait times; and more.

Werner recorded a Q4 earnings miss as low rates, excess capacity and lower truckload demand weigh down its one-way truckload business. Dedicated remained a bright spot with management looking to grow in the coming months.

In this edition: The Super Bowl and logistics, capacity begins to tighten and big jumps in the final-mile space.

In this edition: New vials that are good for ultracold temps, an acquisition in the food space and frozen foods’ deep dive

The arcade game Whac-A-Mole describes state-by-state approach to rules of the driverless road while 50-state solution appears far off.

Inside the newsletter, does your dock need a valet service; rise of Zyn shipments and more

Activist pressure and focus on OR are at odds with optimal service levels.

In this edition: The evolution of ghost jobs that are hiring but really aren’t, and a deal finally closes and moves forward.

In this edition: Grip heads for the fulfillment game, warm Georgia gets cold storage, and Ben & Jerry’s might have unlocked the best flavor of ice cream.

WattEV continues to roll up a lion’s share of federal infrastructure grants as it plots electric charging corridors

Insurance woes weigh down Knight-Swift earnings. Reading tea leaves with Covenant Logistics’ Q4 results; evolution of cybersecurity in the supply chain with Antwan Banks

In this edition: A partnership formed to fight freight fraud; what is the future of e-commerce?; And cross-border freight gets a tech infusion.

Multimodal carrier considers volume a leading indicator and price a lagging one.

In this edition: The annual Freezer Challenge kicks off, imported fruit season has arrived, and Spain is the home of organ transplants.

Could electric trucks find a new power source in decommissioned power plants. Zeem Solutions plans to find out.

On Wednesday, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple went private after voluntarily delisting from Nasdaq following two years of stock and boardroom drama. FreightWaves’ Alan Adler writes, “TuSimple was the first autonomous trucking company to demonstrate driverless operations on an open highway. One of its trucks traveled 80 miles with no human on board from Tucson, Arizona, to Phoenix in December 2021.”

In this edition: The FMCSA has a first; Mexico holds the top spot; and freight audit and payment hits center stage.

In this edition: Major success in organ transplants, new capacity from insurers, and frozen snacks expand.

Hydrogen was a big topic through the mobility and transportation space at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The freight recession may ease earlier than expected, according to recent comments from Morgan Stanley analyst Ravi Shanker. In a call to clients on Monday, Shanker said, “Shippers continue to remain on reorder ‘strike’ while they wait for stronger signals or more favorable conditions on macro but while destocking at the same time, which could lead to everyone wanting to restock at the same time, when the coast clears (or they run out of inventory).”

Tension between stores and suppliers has intensified amid commodity fluctuations.

In this edition: The Supreme Court rejected hearing another case on broker liability; spot rates on the decline in Phoenix; and the settlement heard round the world.

In this edition: More states take advantage of food-resiliency grants; thermal energy storage as a service hits the market; and KFC has a wrap for everyone.

Nikola is finally putting its fuel cell electric truck in the hands of retail customers like Bill Hall of Coyote Container.

CPG giant sees no impact from Red Sea drama, but consumer pressures remain evident.

In December, a federal appeals court ruled that company team drivers’ time spent in sleeper berths after eight hours can be compensated under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case involved a former CRST trainee who sued CRST in 2016 alleging that the team-based driver training program violated the FLSA based on the carrier’s compensation policy.

In this edition: Stopping freight fraud in 2024 and all eyes on Mexico in the new year.

The National Transportation Institute (NTI) recently released Q4 2023 driver pay data that shows driver earnings continue to climb in spite of the freight market undergoing a correction. Drivers’ base mileage pay brackets saw a shift, with the 40-to-50-cents-per-mile pay bracket falling 5.2% year over year as fleets raised wages to attract and retain drivers. The 50-to-60-cents-per-mile bracket saw a 6.1% y/y increase.

In this edition: There are some big advancements across the pond in rail and carbon emissions reduction, and Oklahoma invests in supply chain reliability.

In this edition: 2024 predictions coming in hot; new TRAC Market Dashboard debuts; and TFI is on the prowl again.

Frictionless commerce tops list of retail trends.

A report released Monday by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) examines the costs and potential impacts associated with California’s push for zero-emission vehicles. This report is a companion to a December 2022 ATRI report titled “Charging Infrastructure Challenges for the U.S. Electric Vehicle Fleet.

In this edition: Reno gets a new cold storage facility, communities recognize the importance of cold storage and more food options come to the grocery stores.

In this edition: looking back at 2023 predictions and one more labor dispute to close out the year.

In this edition: The Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act makes it to the next phase and Blue Apron gets in the prepared food game.

Cummins’ aggressive scaling of electrolyzers will need other players to meet expected midcentury hydrogen demand.

Inside the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: Your top-5 episodes of the year; FourKites cuts 15%; speed limiter push back

On Wednesday, FreightWaves hosted the Domestic Supply Chain Summit, a virtual event with RXO Chief Strategy Officer Jared Weisfeld as the keynote speaker. The interview, conducted by enterprise trucking carrier expert Thomas Wasson, included an outlook for 2024 and highlighted the biggest supply chain challenges and opportunities.

In this edition: Carriers are left with empty promises of payment; Yellow passes on a lifeline; and putting a book into action.

In this edition: RealCold makes acquisition moves; Lineage commits to slightly warmer frozen food; and McDonald’s tries something new.

The financial freezeout of startups by investors may be thawing as FOMU — the fear of messing up — begins to subside.

Payments network is seeing only modest levels of freight capacity exiting the market.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Monday published a notice in the Federal Register that the state of Florida is seeking an exemption to the CDL testing regulation pertaining to skills testing.

In this edition: Three intermodal companies form an alliance; DAT has zero tolerance; and Yellow’s legacy lives on.

In this edition: Lineage seeks an impressive IPO offering, pharma packaging gets a new present, and slightly less frozen may help frozen food.

The electric grid holds more potential for electric truck charging than utilities currently allow. A big rethink is under way.

On Wednesday the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released a report that examined causes and impacts of predatory heavy-duty towing. The report defined predatory towing in which “a T&R [towing and recovery] company egregiously overcharges, illegally seizes assets, damages assets by use of improper equipment, or illegitimately withholds release of a truck, trailer, and/or cargo.”

Consumers remain remarkably spendy in the face of rising debt balances.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: White House takes credit for the state of supply chains; Operation Santa needs you; and more.

In this edition: The Supreme Court is petitioned to rule on freight brokers and F4A, and it’s been a rough year for brokerages.

Israeli tech startups count on losing some employees to military reserve duty. Many more are called during wartime.

Holiday sports offer welcome reprieve from discouraging newsfeed.

FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack wrote an article on Wednesday outlining her experience attending a truck driver training conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the National Association of Publicly-Funded Truck Driving Schools (NAPFTDS). Premack sought to get more information on a fundamental disagreement in trucking that involves driver turnover and whether there is an ongoing driver shortage.

In this issue of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter: will truckers pull their horns for a grown man; Thanksgiving costs; reefers rise; and more.

In this edition: Fraud takes no breaks for the holidays, it takes a lot of semi-trucks to move Thanksgiving, and lots of businesses can profit from the parcel rate wars.

In this edition: Hosting Thanksgiving gets a lil cheaper, the importance of thawing turkeys and the home of the best frozen rolls.

In this edition: New cold storage facilities across the country and needleless vaccine technology takes off

The changing freight media landscape was on full display at the F3: Future of Freight Festival last week in Chattanooga Tennessee, as influencers, salespeople, presenters and executives intermingled during and after the events.

In this issue, freight meme wars; what imports say about holiday retail; and skipping the line in Panama.

In this edition: Cargo theft is on the rise; the Panama Canal is out, Suez is in; and Congress is a fan of the truck driver.

In this edition: A new cold storage warehouse is on the horizon, ice cream gets warmer and plant-based frozen food options expand.

Uber Freight has more than 100 shipper companies lined up to run autonomous freight, but the capacity just doesn’t exist yet.

On Thursday FreightWaves presented the FreightTech 25 awards, which were chosen independently by a panel of CEOs, industry leaders, academics and investors who scored the companies. Chattanooga, Tennessee-based accounting and auditing firm HHM administered the vote. The awards recognize the most innovative and disruptive companies in the freight technology sector.

In this edition: The rise of bankruptcy in brokerages, the first day of F3 and pilots find new homes.

DSI Assignments, which is overseeing the auction, is seeking a buyer for all of Slync’s platform assets.

In this edition: New cold storage facilities in Cleveland and Houston, and a full Thanksgiving dinner in one bite.

Who is leading, following, emerging or out of the game in autonomous trucking? Here’s an assessment of shifts among the players.

Largest retailer joyously provides best reason yet for Walmart Plus.