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For 72 hours a year inspectors pull over as many trucks as they can, and about one in five is placed out of service on the spot.
This article will cover how shippers and carriers are able to work together to create an efficient business no matter what the economic market dictates.
How a carrier maintains its trucks is invisible when you book and highly visible if it goes wrong.
Peak season is when freight demand is supposed to surge as retailers stock up, and for several years it has underdelivered. Here is why, the signals that actually predict it, and what it means for anyone shipping.
A recession pushes car shipping prices down faster than most people expect, because freight is one of the earliest parts of the economy to feel it.
Where autonomous vehicle regulation stands: the congressional push for a federal framework, the safety and mobility arguments, and the freight angle.
Almost none of it looks like the movies. The dominant threat is impersonation, which changes what actually protects your vehicle.
Freight commentary is full of confident forecasts and most of the indicators quoted in them do not predict much. Here is what leads, what lags, and what to disregard.
Electric vehicle sales concentrate far more heavily than gasoline sales: a handful of models take most of the volume. Here is what dominates each category, why those models keep winning, and what owning one changes.
Every interstate carrier’s inspection and violation history is public, free, and almost nobody looks at it. It takes ten minutes and tells you more about whether a delivery estimate will hold than any review.
Depreciation is the most reliable discount in the car market. Here are ten cars that still look like money and no longer cost it, each with the maintenance caveat that decides whether it is a bargain or a project.
Monthly payments reached levels that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, and the price of the car is only part of it. Terms stretched, rates rose, trade in equity turned negative. Here is the arithmetic worth doing before signing.
How dealer oversupply creates discounts, illustrated by models sitting on lots, and why buying out of state can be worth the transport.
The rulemaking was proposed in 2023 and has not been finalized, so deployment still runs on a patchwork of state rules.
Whether to run your own truck or drive someone else’s is a question about who carries the risk, and the answer changes with the freight market. Here is how each side works and the cycle that moves drivers between them.
