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June 29, 2026

Freight Market Upturn Bodes Well for Top For-Hire Carriers

This year’s Top 100 For-Hire Carriers list reflects a challenging market in 2025, but the outlook has brightened considerably for many large carriers. Read more…

TODAY’S NEWS

BUSINESS

PREMIUM The Freight Market Has Finally Turned

After nearly four years of depressed freight rates, confidence is growing across the trucking industry that the market has finally flipped in its favor. Read more…

BUSINESS

Relaunch: A new chapter for Transport Topics

Transport Topics is trucking’s leading source for news and information — that will never change. What is changing is how we deliver that content, writes TT Executive Editor Joe Howard. Read more…

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Why a Single Bypass Method Isn’t Enough

Mobile app-based weigh station bypass is expanding fast. It deploys quickly, requires no dedicated hardware, and covers more screening locations. For fleets, that means more chances to avoid unnecessary stops. But more chances and reliable results aren’t the same thing. Read more…

BUSINESS

Challenging 2025 Yielded Mixed Results for Trucking

While market conditions have begun to improve in 2026, the largest carriers across many trucking segments reported largely mixed revenue results for 2025. Read more…

SAFETY

Lawmakers Introduce Bill Targeting Overseas Tampering of ELDs

“Foreign dispatchers should not be able to manipulate trucking safety records from halfway around the world,” said Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.). Read more…

BUSINESS

PREMIUM Survey Says: Freight Market Optimism Growing Among Carriers

Carriers are seeing improved market conditions this year and largely agree with the emerging consensus that trucking is recovering from a prolonged downcycle. Read more…

EQUIPMENT

Truck Dealers’ Optimism on 2026-27 Class 8 Demand Grows

Truck dealers are growing more optimistic about the prospects for Class 8 truck and tractor sales in 2026 and 2027, citing an improving economy. Read more…

BUSINESS

Truckload Tightness Boosts FedEx Freight Backhauls, Revenue

FedEx Freight — North America’s largest less-than-truckload carrier — benefited from spillover in backhaul lanes with heavier shipments, executives said. Read more…

FUEL

PREMIUM Survey Says: Major Carriers See Diesel Continuing Dominance

Prominent for-hire motor carriers generally agree that diesel will remain the trucking industry’s predominant fuel well into the future. Read more…

TECHNOLOGY

PREMIUM Survey Says: Fleets’ Tech Investments Center on AI and Safety

North America’s largest carriers are focusing technology investments on AI to improve efficiency, automate processes and unlock better decision-making. Read more…

BUSINESS

Online spending reaches $26.4B during Amazon Prime Day sale

Total spending for the period was up 9.3% from last year’s Prime Day sale, held in July, according to Adobe, which tracks visits to retail websites. Read more…

BUSINESS

VW labor leaders say they were not looped in on job cut plans

VW is entering another period of upheaval after CEO Oliver Blume and other executives signaled internally that the group remains uncompetitive in key areas. Read more…

LOGISTICS

Hormuz ship traffic dips after fresh vessel attacks

The risk tolerance of tanker companies and their crews is critical to returning the global oil market to normal and unlocking millions of barrels of supply. Read more…

EDITOR’S PICK

Freight Market Upturn Bodes Well for Top For-Hire Carriers

This year’s Top 100 For-Hire Carriers list reflects a challenging market in 2025, but the outlook has brightened considerably for many large carriers. Read more…

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