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The rate transparency fight is framed as an industry argument, but the question underneath it matters to anyone paying for transport.
Ten engines that earned their reliability reputations the hard way, from the BMW M50 and Chevy small block 350 to the Honda K20A, Toyota 3RZ-FE, and the 3-million-mile Volvo B20.
The industry has called itself short of drivers for decades and the figure gets quoted as a simple headcount gap. It is not. Trucking has a retention problem more than a recruitment problem, and the two call for different remedies.
Quoted one price and then another a week later? Your car moves on the spot market, which reprices daily. What that means and when to book.
The score depends on being inspected, which is why small carriers get unstable numbers. How the calculation works and what to read instead.
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.
