Trucking market recovery will be driven by 'necessary evil,' ATA's economist says
CCJ Jason Cannon October 27, 2025
The signs of a freight recovery that appeared early this year are gone, replaced by a tough market where recovery will have to come from a supply-side correction, American Trucking Associations' Chief Economist Bob Costello said Monday at ATA's 2025 Management Conference & Exhibition in San Diego.
State of Freight takeaways: some signs are pointing higher
Freight Waves John Kingston October 27, 2025
With the October State of Freight webinar being done in person before an audience here at the FreightWaves Festival of Freight (F3), it had the odd juxtaposition of being a mostly bullish presentation in a sea of freight executives who are otherwise suffering through the tail end of a third year of a freight recession that started sometime in the spring of 2022.
DAT data shows early holiday momentum with rising spot rates and falling diesel prices
Logistics Management Jeff Berman October 27, 2025
And he added that the average linehaul van rate on DAT’s top 50 lanes by load volume came in at $2.00 per mile, coming in flat for the second straight week. He explained that in the key 13 Midwest states—that collectively account for 46% of national load volume and sometimes serve as a signal of future national trends, there was a $0.02-cent increase, to $1.95 per mile, topping the national seven-day rolling average by $0.23.
Shrinking capacity pushing up US reefer truck rates
Journal of Commerce William B. Cassidy October 27, 2025 $Subscription Based
An emerging supply-demand imbalance in refrigerated (reefer) trucking is pushing more freight to the spot market and increasing upward pressure on short-term rates as the peak trucking season begins.
ATA: Driver shortage about quality, not quantity
CCJ Jason Cannon October 27, 2025
"What we have in the United States is a quality problem around drivers, much more so than an absolute number," he said during his economic update at ATA's 2025 Management Conference & Exhibition in San Diego on Monday. "It's the quality of the labor. Drug and alcohol testing. Accidents. That is what an ATA is talking about when we talk about this issue."
ATA’s Spear Hails Rollback of EV Mandates, Other Trucking Wins
Transport Topics Seth Clevenger October 27, 2025
From clawing back zero-emission truck mandates to advancing the fight against lawsuit abuse and pushing to improve safety on the nation’s highways, ATA has achieved significant regulatory wins and generated momentum on several key industry priorities, Spear said during the Oct. 27 speech, delivered at ATA’s 2025 Management Conference & Exhibition.
Related: Heavy Duty Trucking ATA's Spear Celebrates Lobbying Wins for Trucking
Non-Domiciled CDL Emergency Rule could cause capacity crunch
Freight Waves Craig Fuller October 28, 2025
The proliferation of non-domiciled CDLs has coincided with a dramatic increase in trucking capacity across the United States. Since the FMCSA permitted foreigners to obtain non-domiciled CDLs in March 2019, the industry has added more than 310,000 trucks to American roads.
USPS tried to ban immigrant truck drivers — it went horribly
Freight Waves Craig Fuller October 27, 2025
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) implemented a policy banning the loading of contractors using drivers with non-domiciled CDLs, aligning with evolving federal guidelines on immigration and transportation. Facilities were instructed not to load trailers hauled by such drivers as part of efforts to improve safety across a network of asset carriers and brokers handling local, regional, and cross-country work.
XPO to record $35M cost over inherited legal issue
Trucking Dive David Taube October 27, 2025
“The matter relates to environmental and product liability claims involving truck and part manufacturing plants of a subsidiary company of Con-way that Con-way sold to a third party in 1981, long before XPO acquired Con-way in 2015,” XPO said in its filing.
Link: XPO SEC Form 8-K
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