Month: August 2026

Flatbed spot rates Flatbed spot linehaul rates paid to carriers averaged $2.70 per mile this week, minus fuel, down 0.8%, or $0.02 per mile, from the prior week. Rates climbed 35.1%, or $0.70 per mile, year over year and held 28.3%, or $0.59 per mile, above the nine-year seasonal average of $2.10 per mile, near… Continue reading Flatbed Report: Rates hold near highs as July’s housing pullback flags a demand headwind

Dolly Parton, the country music legend whose final business ventures included a Tennessee travel center aimed at truck drivers and highway travelers, died Tuesday at age 80. Parton died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee, according to her publicist. A cause of death was not disclosed, according to the Associated Press. Her death comes almost exactly two… Continue reading Dolly Parton dies at 80, two months after opening Tennessee truck stop 

California deputies recovered more than $123,000 in Brooks running shoes after a suspected BNSF train boxcar burglary. San Bernardino County deputies found two abandoned vans while traveling toward Ludlow on Aug. 22. BNSF Railway Police had requested assistance after a train made an emergency stop nearby. Authorities had noticed three vehicles near the train under… Continue reading Abandoned vans lead deputies to $123K in Brooks shoes from BNSF boxcar theft

Federal prosecutors accuse three Houston U.S. Postal Service carriers of stealing checks worth nearly $24 million. A federal grand jury charged five people in the Southern District of Texas on Aug. 19. The indictment describes a scheme involving $23,973,338.15 in stolen checks. Prosecutors say the group offered those instruments through Telegram and used FedEx for… Continue reading Feds: USPS carriers stole nearly $24M in checks, shipped them through FedEx

In what might be the last publication of a revealing look at the credit conditions in the trucking industry, the quarterly earnings of bank BMO released Tuesday showed the stronger freight market impacting its numbers. BMO, the former Bank of Montreal and one of the largest lenders to the trucking industry, has announced its plans… Continue reading Likely BMO swan song shows trucking credit strengthening