Drayage capacity around the major gateways, per-diem and chassis disputes, intermodal rail transit, driver supply and the fuel line on every invoice.
Roberto Lopez got nearly 19 years for running logistics on a Laredo trucking operation that a DEA-documented 1992 legitimate freight business had been converted into a cartel transportation arm — a case that took 17 years from indictment to sentence.
ABF Freight's tonnage grew 9% in August entirely on bigger shipments, not more of them, while ArcBest's asset-light brokerage unit posted 26% revenue growth on flat shipment counts — two segments pointing to the same price-led story.
Registrants whose biennial update fell due on or after June 1 get a reprieve from deactivation while FMCSA works through access problems in its new Motus registration system — and the relief has no announced end date.
A Sept. 3 letter organized with the Teamsters Rail Conference asks regulators to test the $85 billion deal against job cuts, contracted-out work and binding arbitration — arriving as a competing union has already taken guarantees and stood down.
Saia's August operating data shows tonnage growth accelerating even as shipment counts barely move — a sign the four-year terminal expansion is now pulling in heavier freight rather than just more stops.
XPO's preliminary August data shows shipment counts outrunning tonnage again, a pattern that points to lighter, more fragmented freight even as the carrier reaffirms its path to a sub-81% LTL operating ratio.
