The agency raised its fourth-quarter retail forecast to $5.55 and expects diesel crack spreads above $2 through November. The 2027 decline is gradual and depends on normalized Middle East tanker flows.
A September 15 tariff-table change adds Canadian cheese, paper, metals, furniture and selected vehicles to a 50% duty while removing salt, cement and other goods. A separate motorcycle import ban starts September 29.
Commerce opened antidumping investigations covering five countries and subsidy investigations covering three. The written scope reaches cylinders and attached components, but initiation alone does not impose a new fleet-parts duty.
USDA counted 86.0 million metric tons of corn exported in 2025/26, up 25%, while 15.6 million tons of sales moved into the new marketing year. The handoff separates completed freight from the book still waiting to move.
A new U.S. maritime advisory keeps attack and navigation risk high in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. The inland freight response begins with a confirmed vessel and voyage change, not a blanket delay assumption.
The Port of Los Angeles moved more than 2.9 million TEUs from June through August, its busiest three-month stretch. But August imports were nearly flat from last year, separating sustained gateway workload from a new demand acceleration.
BTS counted 1,293 fewer cargo-airline employees in July while FedEx alone was down 1,448. The concentrated change is relevant to a major national network, but employment data cannot establish a service or lift reduction.
BLS's truck-freight commodity index rose 2.0% from July while water freight and cargo-arrangement measures were essentially flat. The divergence is a warning against carrying one modal price signal across an entire freight budget.
AAR's 13.8% year-over-year gain compared a full pre-holiday week in 2026 with a 2025 week that contained Labor Day. Current volume was actually 1.8% below the preceding week, making the calendar—not a sudden surge—the first fact to check.
BTS now puts July's Freight TSI at 135.7, down 0.7% from June. Its new history also revises June to a 1.0% gain, replacing the three-month slide reported in August with a weaker—but uneven—spring and summer path.
PHMSA says federal hazmat law preempts the gasoline-transport tort duties presented in a New Jersey case. The ruling does not rewrite the HMR, cancel existing training obligations, or resolve every workplace-safety question.
TRAFFIX put national spot pricing near $3.38 per mile and tender rejections near 14.4% in its September 8 update even as volume remained 4% to 5% below a year earlier. The next test is whether that separation survives the holiday reset.
Two of Miami International Airport's four runways remained closed after a cargo-aircraft overrun. Because MIA is the nation's leading freight airport, the useful response is shipment-level confirmation—not a blanket delay assumption.
AAA's daily national diesel average reached $5.9015 on September 7, 30.13 cents above one week earlier. EIA's latest weekly benchmark remains $5.599 for August 31; the two series are useful for different decisions.
CBP is ending the legacy use of air manifests for express cargo physically arriving by truck. The 90-day transition applies to that process; it is not a new manifest rule for every carrier already using the standard truck workflow.
XPO, Saia and Old Dominion reported August tonnage changes from minus 0.9% to plus 8.7%. Shipment counts and weight per shipment moved differently at each network, so no single carrier supplies an industry demand verdict.
Real U.S. goods imports rose 3.8% in July while real exports fell 1.8%. The split expands the inbound-outbound planning gap, but value and volume totals still do not specify a truckload, lane or mode.
CBP is asking whether foreign export declarations, invoices, packing lists, origin records and transport documents should become U.S. entry data or retained records. It is an advance proposal, not a requirement; comments close December 1.
DAT's latest national spot sample shows flatbed linehaul easing to $2.67 per mile while remaining 32.2% above a year earlier. A sharper load-to-truck imbalance explains the pressure inside that dataset, not every contract lane.
BLS counted 316,000 openings across transportation, warehousing and utilities in July, down 67,000 from June. Hires and separations both rounded to 277,000, a balanced turnover reading that is broader than trucking alone.
An FMC rule effective today clarifies that common-carrier charge complaints can use the free interim process, formal adjudication or small claims. The routes carry different procedures and fees, but the rule does not create an automatic refund or a new detention standard.
Commerce finalized separate dumping and subsidy rates for Chinese van trailers and covered subassemblies, while the trade case still needs an affirmative U.S. industry-injury finding before duty orders become final.
A September 30 FRA rule replaces special approval for cars over 50 years old with a notice, while ordinary freight-car safety standards and defect liability remain in force.
USDA's second-quarter routes from Minneapolis to Japan show higher truck costs, but ocean, barge and rail increases did more to lift total transportation costs through the Gulf and Pacific Northwest.
The Panama Canal will reduce daily capacity to 34 transits September 3 and 32 September 15, making a confirmed reservation the first fact to verify before U.S. inland appointments change.
BLS estimates that March transportation and warehousing employment was 135,100 higher than the current payroll series shows, but the preliminary benchmark is a history correction—not an August hiring surge.
Motive and Highway say authorized carrier data is again available at its prior frequency and users need not act, while the agreement governing that connection remains under discussion.
Mubadala Capital agreed to take a controlling interest in Arrive Logistics, but the announced network scale is a starting point for measuring carrier opportunity, not proof of more freight or better terms.
A 210-organization trucking survey reports higher C-suite and supervisory representation, while its driver percentages were flat or lower and its self-selected sample limits industry-wide conclusions.
Disposable income rose 0.5%, but current-dollar goods spending fell $49.9 billion and real overall consumption was essentially flat, separating household capacity from physical freight demand.
The carrier's broader 2024-2028 investment now highlights time-definite heavy air service to and from Mexico, joining transportation, brokerage and warehousing in one cross-border offer.
USPS proposed a temporary Oct. 4-Jan. 17 price window whose dollar increases widen with weight and distance, making shipment mix more useful than one average percentage.
CBP's final rule moves U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico rail exports into advance ACE filings, with an October effective date and enforcement held until October 2027.
Descartes bought Tai with cash, adding truckload, LTL, drayage and cross-border execution to a logistics network that already reaches carrier onboarding and visibility.
FMCSA is renewing the national information collection used to judge whether extended emergency relief is still needed or should be narrowed.
AAR's July freight index reached its second-highest level while intermodal set a July record, but lane-level cost and service still determine what shifts between rail and highway.
FMCSA's 36-state fertilizer relief ends Wednesday night, and a driver moving back to normal operations may need a full 10-hour break first.
ATRI's national benchmark put 2025 truck operating cost at a record $2.336 per mile while nonfuel expense rose faster and truckload profitability stayed compressed.
Labor's final rescission codifies the end of Executive Order 11246 procedures on October 26, while separate disability, veteran and contract-specific obligations remain.
Census estimates put second-quarter employer-firm truck transportation revenue 11.1% above last year, but the advance series does not separate price, volume or seasonality.
BTS plans to verify truck, warehouse and mail-transfer facilities at 113 airports that handled about 98% of U.S. air freight in 2024.
Preliminary heavy-truck orders fell from June but remained far above last year, while analysts said limited 2026 slots and unopened 2027 orderboards shaped the comparison.
The agency is seeking approval to measure how drivers use smartphone-integration tasks through built-in displays, with laboratory and closed-course work but no results yet.
EIA's latest weekly data put U.S. distillate inventories at 105.6 million barrels, about 13% below the five-year average, even as recent supplied volume trailed last year.
The STB opened the UP-Norfolk Southern record for merits review and set a long filing calendar, while ordering applicants to restore rows excluded from analytical workpapers.
New Section 232 duties reach some imported unmanned aircraft in September and listed components in February, with country, certification and onshoring exceptions.
CBP will begin voiding importer numbers tied to inaccurate Form 5106 records on September 18, making master-data cleanup an entry-readiness task.
Industrial production rose 0.2%, but consumer goods and motor vehicles weakened while business equipment and construction supplies advanced.
A new RFI sketches utility colocation and corridor-manager concessions, but it awards no project and accepts no expressions of interest yet.
Second-quarter revenue fell 3.7%, but the sharper signal was a widening intermodal loss beside growth in contract logistics.