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Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers TCI's acquisition of Success NationaLease, Maryland's new speeding fines, and the Panama Canal's updated booking system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers what DOT's emergency CDL ruling means for trucking, a CSX CEO shake-up, and a $1 million whiskey cargo theft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers new imported truck tariffs, USDOT tightening requirements on noncitizens receiving CDLs, and the pending bankruptcy of an auto parts supplier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an appeals court siding with pension funds on the amount of money the estate of Yellow Corp. owes them, Amazon settling a lawsuit brought by the FTC, and Kodiak AI's initial public offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers trucking tonnage in August, an audit at FMCSA, and Performance Food Group adding a new member to its board amid merger discussions with US Foods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Volvo Trucks North America opening its order book for its new regional-haul Class 8 truck, Amazon sparring in court with U.S. labor board attorneys, and what the CEO of Alcoa said about U.S. aluminum demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an increase in FMCSA roadside inspections, a federal trial beginning this week involving Amazon, and a new partnership from Uber Freight and Tesla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the FedEx Q1 2026 earnings report, confirmation of administrators for three government agencies, and NACFE's Messy Middle demonstration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Class 8 retail sales in August, fleet terminal prover Outpost's plans to expand, and the outlook for trailers into 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers revived pilot programs related to split time for rest breaks under HOS rules, a new bill in the U.S. House aimed at mitigating thefts of automotive catalytic converters, and the results of the TMCSuperTech competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers talks between Performance Food Group and US Foods, rising prices for battery-electric trucks, and a driverless run by a Bot Auto truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers C.H. Robinson's new offering for customers importing freight from Mexico, American Axle seeking financing for its purchase of Dowlais, and Elon Musk's purchase of $1 billion in Tesla shares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers EU lawmakers seeking changes to a U.S. trade deal, Kroger rethinking its Ocado warehouse partnership, and Washington state launching a new toll expressway near ports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers falling Class 8 truck orders, a trucking lawsuit reform bill, and record U.S. tariff revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers analysis coming out of the FTR Transportation Intelligence conference, President Trump talking higher tariffs on China and India to pressure Russia, and autonomous taxi rides beginning in two major American cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers news on President Trump's tariffs, what FTR is saying about truck production, and a legal win for Motive Technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Amazon taking a stake in a Latin American company, President Trump comments on the Hyundai-LG EV battery factory raid, and an acquisition in the logistics world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the UAW requesting certain tariffs to be imposed on truck manufacturers, signs of a freight market recovery, and the detention of 475 workers at a Hyundai battery plant construction site in Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers USDOT launching an effort to include fentanyl and norfentanyl to its drug testing panels, small businesses complaining about Amazon van repair bills, and Mack Trucks opening the order book for its revamped Anthem model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers President Donald Trump's trade agreements, job cuts at the largest independent U.S. oil producer and a senior executive's departure from Tyson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers ATA renewing its call for federal safety enforcement on the highways, President Donald Trump taking his tariff case to the Supreme Court and the head of a drayage group in his new role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the end of the U.S. de minimis tariff exemption, South Africa's suspension of U.S.-bound parcels, and trucking groups' push for Congress to act on highway policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Trump firing an STB member ahead of a proposed major rail merger, Aurora and McLeod's autonomous trucking software partnership and revised U.S. GDP growth in the second quarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers more Yellow terminal sales, Lineage's warehouse expansion and Flexport-BlackRock logistics financing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers federal threats to state trucking funds over English enforcement, EPA's challenge to California's roadside emissions checks, and Kroger's corporate job cuts after its failed Albertsons merger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett announced his company will not bid for CSX or Norfolk Southern, opting instead for BNSF Railway to form closer alliances for growth synergies. This decision came after Union Pacific's $85 billion deal to acquire Norfolk Southern, despite Wall Street expectations for a competitive bid. The American Trucking Association (ATA) is facing a lawsuit from three former employees of its Transport Topics publication, alleging wrongful termination based on age and race discrimination. The plaintiffs claim their 2024 firings were age-motivated and done under the pretext of restructuring, with one plaintiff, Lorrie Grant, also alleging racial discrimination. Highway has launched its Trusted Freight Exchange (TFX), powered by Triumph, aiming to provide brokers and carriers a more secure alternative to traditional load boards and combat freight fraud. The TFX platform incorporates identity proofing to block anonymous traffic, broker-specific compliance rules, and credit assurance from Triumph, allowing carriers to confirm payment means before booking loads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers private carriers slowing fleet growth, a bond denial in a fatal Florida truck crash, and FedEx driver David Comings winning the NTDC grand championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett announced his company will not bid for CSX or Norfolk Southern, opting instead for BNSF Railway to form closer alliances for growth synergies. This decision came after Union Pacific's $85 billion deal to acquire Norfolk Southern, despite Wall Street expectations for a competitive bid. The American Trucking Association (ATA) is facing a lawsuit from three former employees of its Transport Topics publication, alleging wrongful termination based on age and race discrimination. The plaintiffs claim their 2024 firings were age-motivated and done under the pretext of restructuring, with one plaintiff, Lorrie Grant, also alleging racial discrimination. Highway has launched its Trusted Freight Exchange (TFX), powered by Triumph, aiming to provide brokers and carriers a more secure alternative to traditional load boards and combat freight fraud. The TFX platform incorporates identity proofing to block anonymous traffic, broker-specific compliance rules, and credit assurance from Triumph, allowing carriers to confirm payment means before booking loads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a State Department declaration regarding work visas, FMCSA and medical certifications, and EPA issuing a biodiesel-blending waiver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a report on “thermonuclear” verdicts, Walmart's second-quarter earnings and sales, and Class 8 truck sales in July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers DOT's investigation into a high-profile truck crash, Puerto Rico's boost from President Donald Trump's tariffs and a home improvement retailer's big acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers President Donald Trump and tariffs on metal, a new report on truck parking space availability nationwide and an explosion at the Port of Baltimore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the Trump administration and CARB, a logistics company's growth in two major markets and a congressional bid to roll back plans to electrify the U.S. Postal Services' fleet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an American Trucking Associations letter to DOT, a planned meeting between the leaders of Canada and Mexico, and the increase in the adoption of advanced driver assistance systems by carriers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers states finding new ways to fund road and bridge maintenance, truck driver hiring, and the busiest month ever for the Port of Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers American Trucking Associations sending a request to the Environmental Protection Agency, Amazon launching a same-day grocery delivery service, and a report detailing the diesel technician shortage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an EPA directive regarding diesel exhaust fluid, Waabi bringing aboard an industry veteran and a fresh acquisition by Echo Global Logistics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation.Today's briefing covers four major truck manufacturers suing a California agency, the extension of tariff talks between the U.S. and China, and a revamped national plan to deploy electric vehicle chargers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation.Today's briefing covers Tesla and its AI autonomous technology program, Hyroad acquiring some of Nikola's assets, and the rebound in heavy oil output. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the ramifications of the White House's tariff on computer chips, a major OEM supporting EPA's rollback of greenhouse gas regulations, and Class 8 truck orders in July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation.Today's briefing covers the English-language mandate for commercial truck drivers, product and financial news for Cummins, and clarity on the USMCA trade agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers two drayage companies closing at a major West Coast port, a surprising turn for used Class 8 truck prices and troubles for UAW's president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the Senate confirmation of the new FTA administrator, the trucking industry's response to the latest wave of announced tariffs, and Amazon expanding its footprint in Arkansas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the possible effects of tariffs on the trucking industry, Iowa biodiesel grants, and Q2 earnings from Daimler Truck and Hub Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the deadline for tariff deals, earnings reports from C.H. Robinison and Schneider, and a milestone for Aurora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Roadrunner adding 100 lanes to its LTL network, a Hess family member buying back the popular toy truck business, and Q2 results from Heartland and Werner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the end of government efforts to set speed limiter requirements, EPA's effort to abolish the landmark determination that planet-warming gases endanger public health and welfare, and DAT's acquisition of Convoy Platform from Flexport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Hub Group's purchase of Marten Transport's intermodal unit, Indiana seeking to become the first state to toll interstate highways, and CARB's modification that allows OEMs to transfer ZEV credits between states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an autonomous pilot involving Bot Auto, more second-quarter earnings reports, and what railroad merger talks mean for the industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Paccar's outlook for the second half, steady merger and acquisition activity and ATA's Truck Tonnage Index for June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices