October 28, 2026
Knight-Swift's CEO says its brokerage has cut its approved carrier pool about 70% in two years — and newer, spot-reliant carriers will feel it first. Here is the Make-the-Cut Plan: the exposure audit, the file review, the known-carrier move, and the direct-freight door no purge can close.
October 21, 2026
Roughly 25,000 Mexican drivers have lost B-1 visas since April 2025, border spot rates are up as much as 57%, and shippers are shifting to transloading — freight any US carrier can haul. Here is the Border Play: the fit check, the 15-name transload list, the facility call script, and the triangle math.
October 7, 2026
The September LMI hit 70.2 — transportation prices at 92.7 while capacity contracted a tenth straight month. Here is the Repricing Window: the rate-review call, the new load-board floor, the “we’re covered” callback, and the surcharge lock to run this week while the market moves your way.
September 30, 2026
Diesel set a record near $6.53 and social media says trucks park October 1. Here is the Park-or-Run Ledger: the math for your own decision, the legal line you cannot cross, the shipper calls for both paths, and the plays that make the day pay either way.
September 16, 2026
DAT's September 15 release shows the van spot rate fell 20 cents in August — the steepest late-summer pullback in its 16-year history — while fuel surcharges rose a dime and contract freight now pays 22 cents over spot. Here is the four-move Pullback Playbook to run before you book another load.
September 4, 2026
Diesel hit $5.85 a gallon on September 4 — an all-time record that finally broke the June 2022 high of $5.8159, per AAA. What broke the record, what it does to your cost per mile, and the four moves to make before your next load: reprice your floor, fix the surcharge while the headline is hot, buy every gallon through a discount, and protect the cash.
August 30, 2026
The van load-to-truck ratio hit 10.23 — ten loads for every posted truck — while truck posts run 26 percent below last year. Three plays to turn the fall capacity squeeze into pricing power: quote off your market's ratio, position ahead of the seasonal freight, and convert spot leverage into committed lanes.
August 28, 2026
A top-10 broker's liability premium just tripled after the Montgomery ruling and the $604 million Robinson verdict, and TD Cowen says broker consolidation is coming. Here is the Broker Stress Test: the pay-drift check, the monthly bond pull, the 25% exposure cap, and the direct-freight hedge to run this week.
August 27, 2026
Diesel set a new 2026 high of $5.65 the same week dry van spot rates fell for the seventh straight time. Five moves to protect per-mile margin when the market won't pay for your fuel: reprice your floor, follow the freight into reefer, put a written surcharge on every direct account, buy every gallon deliberately, and carry the data into fall contracts.
August 20, 2026
FreightWaves' August 19 Freight Distress Report counts more than 7,000 jobs cut as Tyson closes beef plants and Essendant warns of liquidation — lane changes with dates attached. Here is the Closure Radar: the facility exposure map, the WARN watch, the wind-down freight call, and the receivables cap to run this week.