Month: March 2026

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York introduced the Trucking Security and CCP Disclosure Act of 2026 on February 25th, and if you work in government freight at any level of the food chain, you need to understand what this bill actually does. It’s not just aimed at the prime contractor. It puts the certification burden… Continue reading Dragon no longer in the cab: Senator Cotton and Rep. Stefanik quietly move to eject China from American Trucking

Artificial intelligence was the talk of the town at Manifest, but for venture capital investments, the machines themselves took center stage. FreightWaves spoke with Mike Plasencia, group director of new product strategy and RyderVentures at Ryder System, Inc. about technology trends and what they have been working on. He leads RyderVentures’ investment strategy across more… Continue reading RyderVentures bets on ‘Physical AI’ to break warehouse automation’s biggest barriers

The union representing pilots at Air Transport International, an Ohio-based airline that operates more than 40 Boeing 767 cargo jets in Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) air logistics network, said Friday it has reached a tentative labor agreement with the company after more than five years of contentious negotiations. The current contract was eligible to be updated… Continue reading Amazon partner airline ATI, pilots agree on provisional 4-year contract

I have spent the last 12 years working with military household goods shipments. For most of that time the process was predictable. Transportation service providers (TSPs) moved belongings under permanent change of station (PCS) orders, and custody followed clear paths from origin to destination. But like many parts of the supply chain today, identity fraud… Continue reading Military logistics: new challenges in identity verification

Thousands of ships’ crews and hundreds of vessels are trapped in the Persian Gulf as the war in Iran spread to the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane.  Three cargo vessels in the region were hit overnight by projectiles of unknown origin, setting one vessel ablaze, according to a British security monitor.  More than 10,000 merchant… Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: 10,000 ships crews trapped by Strait of Hormuz blockade