It's early August, and the Atlantic hurricane season peaks around September 10, roughly five weeks out. That gap is the most valuable thing sitting on your shipping calendar right now, and most shippers spend it doing nothing. The Gulf has already put two named storms on [...]
Most people picture back-to-school as a July trip to the store for notebooks and sneakers. For anyone moving freight, it looks more like a wave that builds all summer and crests right when trucks are hardest to find. The numbers this year are hard to ignore. The National Retail Federation [...]
You quoted a lane on a Monday. By Thursday, that rate was gone, and not because someone booked it first. The carrier just didn't have a truck to put on it anymore. If that's happened to you in the last few weeks, you're not imagining it, and it's not going to fix itself in August the way it usually does. [...]
National capacity numbers can lie to you, or at least they can tell you a story that has almost nothing to do with your actual freight. Look at the country as a whole this year and you'll see a market that looks healthier than it's been in years. The Outbound Tender Rejection Index, the number that tracks how [...]
Freight moves year-round, but summer adds a layer of risk that most shippers only think about after something goes wrong. A load of produce leaving California in early June can sit in a trailer at 95°F during a lunch break stop in Arizona. A pallet of insulin traveling cross-country through [...]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19, covering 104 matches across 16 host cities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. If your business moves freight through Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Atlanta, or Seattle this summer, the tournament is going to affect your shipments [...]
Picture this: you need to move a pallet of product from Dallas to Miami. You call your usual carrier, and they pass. You try another one. They pass too. By the time you find someone willing to take the load, you're paying 20% more than you budgeted and your customer is already asking where their order is. [...]
Your freight is moving. Deliveries are going out. The border has not stopped you yet. That is exactly the problem. Think of it this way. You have a box of products at your warehouse in the United States. Your customer is in Canada and needs them. To get that box across, there is a giant door [...]
Most freight operations do not fail dramatically. They degrade. A workaround becomes a process. A process becomes policy. Policy calcifies into habit, and habit runs the operation long after the original logic stopped applying. Shipments keep moving. Issues get resolved. And because [...]
Shippers across the US are opening invoices in 2026 and finding charges they didn't expect. Not because they shipped something different. Because the rules changed and nobody told them. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association overhauled its classification system in mid-2025 [...]