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Business: Page 8

Business
'Shocking' Montgomery Transport closure 'like losing family'
Employees describe Montgomery Transport implosion as immediate and sudden.
October 15, 2025
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Business
Why freight volumes peaked early and what it means for carriers
Tariff-driven frontloading pushed the freight surge into summer, creating a flatter holiday season.
October 15, 2025
Peak Season
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Growth strategies
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October 14, 2025
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Business
The cost of fleet compliance failures
Compliance failures are threatening fleet survival. Industry experts reveal the critical gaps costing carriers millions.
October 14, 2025
Fleet Compliance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Smith System's latest acquisition connects data insights to driver safety
Insights from Utilimarc’s business intelligence platform, which integrates data across telematics, fleet management information systems, maintenance software, and safety cameras, are now combined with Smith System’s training and driver risk expertise.
October 9, 2025
5 Keys Engage User View
Business
Cargo theft costs trucking $18 million per day, most loads never recovered
Nearly three-quarters of all stolen cargo is never recovered, and many thefts go unreported.
October 8, 2025
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Business
Werner CEO: Capacity contraction ahead
Werner CEO says trucking's worst downturn is setting the stage for a multi-year capacity crunch.
October 8, 2025
Werner Enterprises CEO Derek Leathers at the WEX OTR Summit.
Business
TCA President Jim Ward to retire
Jim Ward, former president and CEO of CCJ Top 250 fleet D.M. Bowman, will retire from his post at the Truckload Carriers Association in the coming months. Also: NTSB calls for safety tech on trucks in fatal-crash report; Canadian province shuts down trucking schools, companies for safety issues.
October 7, 2025
Jim Ward
Business
FedEx Freight builds out leadership team ahead of spin-off
Former IT CFO will take the financial reigns of FedEx Freight.
October 6, 2025
FedEx freight semi-trucks driving on a tree-lined highway
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trimac acquires Service Transport Company
Trimac Transportation is expanding its chemical hauling footprint in the U.S.
October 6, 2025
White and blue tanker truck with silver trailer parked on concrete lot
Business
Turnage, TFX, Oberman, Clifford Hay advance to Small Fleet Champ final round
Turnage & Sons LLC, Thomasville Furniture Xpress, Oberman Logistics and Clifford Hay Inc. -- all are mastering the fine arts of trucking-biz management in myriad ways. Two Small Fleet Champs among these finalists will walk away with the title belts at NASTC's annual conference Oct. 23 in Nashville.
October 3, 2025
Four fleets represented by the pictures above will square off in the final round of the Small Fleet Championship for the title belt in their respective categories October 23, 2025, at the annual NASTC conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Business
ArcBest sees path to long-term growth despite market challenges
ArcBest execs remain confident in long-term growth, pointing to AI-driven innovation, efficiency gains, and a clear path to stronger financial performance.
October 3, 2025
Arc Best Investor Day
Business
Isuzu breaks ground on 1M square foot truck plant in South Carolina
Isuzu breaks ground on a new U.S. production hub in Greenville, SC.
October 1, 2025
Isuzu corporate sign
Business
TCI acquiring Success Truck Leasing
With the acquisition of Success NationaLease, TCI grows to more than 4,000 pieces of equipment, 1,900 employees, and 25 facilities nationwide.
September 30, 2025
Two businessmen standing beside a white Freightliner semi-truck with TCI logo
Business
Uncertainty in freight is overstated
I seem to recall there was some certainty in freight just before the 1998 Consent Decree that introduced NOx emission requirements and created all that fun with the introduction of EGRs.
September 29, 2025
Truck driver asleep at steering wheel in blue checkered shirt
Outlook and Benchmarking
How private fleets avoided the market downturn
NPTC's annual benchmarking report shows that private fleets are growing despite the freight rate recession. Is that private fleet capacity behind the rate downturn for the for-hire trucking sector?
September 25, 2025
Tom Moore
Business
LTL furniture specialist TFX lays solid ground for growth, profit, support
Thomasville Furniture Xpress owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis both got their start in the trucking business as owner-operators decades ago. Today, after long careers centered in the LTL furniture space out of North Carolina, their small fleet is poised for continued growth, profits, and service excellence.
September 25, 2025
Small Fleet Champ semi-finalist Thomasville Furniture Xpress has grown quickly since founding within the last decade, helmed by co-owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis.
Business
Skin in the leased owner's game: Oberman Logistics' simple, transparent plan for expansion
Owner-operator Wes Oberman and his business partner and wife, Laura, have built a home for leased owner-operators at their Tennessee-based fleet with a promise of transparent, simple fees -- and clear investment in the success of their business partners. Growth has been steady over six years.
September 23, 2025
Oberman Logistics owner Wes Oberman's personal truck is this Kenworth T680 -- purchased to replace a lower-fuel-mileage 2020 389 that powered his maiden voyage in trucking as an owner-operator. He's getting 10 mpg now, and providing a reliable home for leased owners has the fleet up to 11 trucks as of August.
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Technician training
Vehicle maintenance certification improves repair rates, cuts expense
Maintenance certifications aren't required, but that doesn't mean they're not necessary.
Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman David Rouzer (R-NC).
Safety & Compliance
Committee advances Dalilah's Law: 'no English, no license'
Dalilah Coleman, who in June 2024 was involved in a violent wreck with a semi driven by an illegal alien from India named Partap Singh.
Regulations
Amended Dalilah's Law targets English-only CDL, ban of foreign dispatch
Dan Umphress, Kroger's Manager of Fleet Services, is a recipient of FedEx's Five Star Award, the highest award presented by FedEx. He's also received the highest honor recognition possible from the Boy Scouts, TMC (Silver Spark Plug in 2014), and CCJ’s highest honor: the 2026 Career Leadership Award.
Career Leadership Award
Scouts honor: Dan Umphress named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
FMCSA advised carriers not to sell, purchase, or lease a USDOT Number or Operating Authority (MC Number) online or elsewhere from an unknown person or outside of a legitimate corporate transaction
Safety & Compliance
FMCSA issues warning to fleets selling or leasing USDOT, MC numbers
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