Delivery cost rose 12% for the median US operator in 2026, and 88% of operators say it is growing as fast as revenue or faster. With UPS and FedEx peak surcharges already live, cost-to-serve is under pressure just as customers redefine what good delivery means.

Diesel prices rose to the top spot from the 17th most prominent issue last year, with truck drivers included in the survey flagging it as their chief concern for the first time ever.

The American Transportation Research Institute estimates that the average truck driver loses 56 minutes of drive time a day in the search of safe parking.

The packet from a carrier whose authority went active in July holds the same items as that from a fleet that has run for a decade: But the public record kept by FMCSA treats the two as different risks, 

For an invoice that differs from its quote, the first question can be a simple one: What changed between the shipment we booked and the shipment the carrier billed?

The next time two of your trucks could both cover the same load, pay close attention to how that choice gets settled.

Until new regulations are live, industry participants must independently verify entities and individuals while carefully protecting sensitive personal data.

A plan to use trucks to deliver compressed natural gas to a data center, called Project Jupiter, would let Oracle get the early stages of it online before a key pipeline enters service.

Whether promised savings for truckers will actually be realized remains an open question.

RXO shareholders are expected to own 11% of the combined company upon closing.