ArcBest’s incoming CEO prizes growth, efficiency, innovation
Trucking Dive David Taube December 17, 2025
During his previous 18 years with the company, Runser has displayed leadership skills in advancing the company’s customer-centric approach and fostering innovation, according to former lead independent director Steven Spinner, who retired from the company’s board Oct. 31.
LTL carriers seeing mixed results as market pressures mount
CCJ Pamella De Leon December 17, 2025
Weight per shipment trends remain largely flat or declining across the board. According to an SEC filing, ArcBest noted that “the pricing environment continues to be rational,” indicating carriers are maintaining pricing discipline despite difficult market conditions.
Walmart’s $115,000 Starting Pay and Better Rigs Draw Women to Trucking
Bloomberg Jaewon Kong December 18, 2025 $Subscription Based
While competitors worry about potential worker shortages, Walmart Inc. has grown its trucking workforce by 33% in the last three years by making the job more attractive to people who might otherwise eschew the field. Scott and Salikie earn about $135,000 per year, around twice what the typical truck driver is paid.
Trucking M&A to Increase in 2026 Due to Fed Rate Cuts: PwC
Transport Topics Keiron Greenhalgh December 17, 2025
Reduced borrowing costs due to expectations of further interest rate cuts will allow dealmakers to revive deals that were previously deferred as well as loosening corporate purse strings previously inhibited by the ongoing freight rate recession and uncertainty.
Link: PWC US Deals 2026 outlook Transportation and logistics
Sacramento facility headlines latest Yellow Corp. terminal sales
Freight Waves Todd Maiden December 17, 2025
A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware has approved purchase agreements for three of defunct Yellow Corp.’s terminals valued at $4 million. The former less-than-truckload carrier’s 35-door facility in West Sacramento, California sold for $3.4 million.
Cass Freight Index sees annual declines in November
Logistics Management December 17, 2025
Vertical Research Partners analyst Jeff Kauffman wrote in a research note that the Cass data shows continued bouncing around an unusual bottom driven by early freight shipments this year.
“The net takeaway is that the late start to the Holiday Shipping Season appears to have finally arrived, matching anecdotal observations we are hearing from our carriers,” he said.
Link: Cass Transportation Index Report November 2025
Trucking By the Numbers 2025: For-Hire vs. Private
Fleet Owner Jeremy Wolfe December 17, 2025
Digging deeper into NPTC’s benchmarking survey, it becomes clearer that private operations tend to cost more. Very few private fleets generate profit: 23% are “profit centers,” while 77% are “cost centers.”
But what these companies lose in operational costs, they gain in stability. Most NPTC respondents noted that the top benefits of running a private fleet are customer service (89%), cost control (74%), and a hedge against outside carrier uncertainty (73%).
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