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BusinessTechnologyEquipmentLogistics

Putting AI to Work in Trucking

Transportation providers are gaining access to a broad menu of emerging artificial intelligence capabilities, available both as bolt-on systems and embedded features in transportation management software.

December 12, 2025
BusinessTechnologySafetyLogistics

AI Adoption Raises Stakes for Data Security

Emerging AI tools promise to deliver significant efficiency gains, but also widen the pathways through which sensitive information travels.

December 12, 2025
GovernmentBusinessTCA

Trucking Businesses Call for Stop to N.Y. Thruway Surcharge

The聽New York State Thruway Authority is moving forward in January with a newly announced 1% surcharge on all tolls processed through commercial toll management providers.

December 12, 2025
GovernmentBusinessEquipmentFuelLogistics

New Supertankers Sail Empty to Collect Oil

A聽shortage of oil tankers聽is becoming so acute that newly built vessels, which usually carry refined fuels on their maiden voyages, are instead racing empty to pick up crude as soon as possible.聽

December 12, 2025
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Ford Steps Up Tech to Thwart F-150 Pickup Thieves

Christian Moran of Ford Secure says, 鈥淭hieves do like to go after pickup trucks. They also like to go after the contents that are often in pickup trucks."

December 12, 2025
BusinessLogisticsGlobal Freight

Maersk Picks New CFO Robert Erni With Logistics Background

Maersk has a strategy to grow in land-based logistics, which has historically had higher and more stable profit margins than container shipping.

December 12, 2025
BusinessPrivateTop 100

Costco鈥檚 Profit Tops Estimates as Shoppers Prize Deals

Costco Wholesale's quarterly profit in its fiscal 2026 first quarter rose more than expected, a sign that price-sensitive shoppers continue to search for value.聽

December 11, 2025
GovernmentBusinessEquipment

First Brands' Loan Value Sinks Further; Rescue Seen as Critical

Marathon Asset Management and others that provided First Brands Group with $1.1 billion are seeing the super-senior debt crater at a speed that bankruptcy experts say is unprecedented.

December 11, 2025
BusinessEquipmentSafetyLogistics

Holiday Season Poses Elevated Threat for Fraud, Cargo Theft

Heightened risk of fraud and theft this holiday season adds to the challenges the trucking industry already is contending with, experts warned.

December 11, 2025
GovernmentBusinessSafetyLogistics

Congress Eyes Passage of National Defense Authorization Act

Specific to trucking, the NDAA proposes improvements to the procedures associated with moving military freight and relocation assistance for service members and their families.

December 11, 2025

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