Triumph Financial's transportation revenue grew nearly 38% in the third quarter as the factoring giant added more than 700 customers this year; its CEO says driver pay, diesel, insurance, equipment and financing costs are what keep squeezing carriers.
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FreightWaves SONAR's new routing-guide data puts a hard number on tender rejection: loads that fall to a second carrier cost a median 22.02% more all-in, and third-tender loads cost 26.44% more.
Ryder beats the quarter and talks fleet growth over EPA '27 panic, Triumph Financial names the five costs squeezing carriers, a Munich court orders Daimler and MAN cartel repayments, a coffee truck is torn apart on I-81, and rejected loads cost a median 22% more.
A Munich court ruled that MAN must reimburse 5% of the net price of heavy-duty trucks bought between 1997 and 2009, and Daimler Truck 3.7%, in a judgment expected to benchmark billions of euros in European truck-cartel claims.
A transfer error at the MC Tank Transport terminal in north Toledo released glycidyl methacrylate from a 5,500-gallon tank on Tuesday night, forcing about 983 people to evacuate and a 3-mile area to shelter in place; by Wednesday afternoon the tank was cooling, the evacuation zone was halved, the shelter-in-place order was lifted, and at least 35 people had reported to hospitals with symptoms potentially related to the leak.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation now reports about 800 feet of pavement damage near the Pea Island Visitor Center — waves undermined the roadway — and about 1,800 feet of protective dunes lost, with the department in the planning stages of activating the Stumpy Point–Rodanthe emergency ferry and no timeline for reopening until overwash subsides and a full assessment is possible.
The nation's largest truckload carrier posted adjusted earnings of $0.83 a share — $0.51 ahead of a year ago and $0.07 ahead of consensus — on revenue of $2.2 billion, up 14% year over year, with its truckload adjusted operating ratio improving 700 basis points to 89.2%.
International Motors will add a second shift at its San Antonio assembly plant in 2027 — nearly doubling output from the roughly 100 trucks a day expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 — after third-quarter truck and bus sales jumped 48% year over year, and hiring for the shift has already begun.
Cargo thieves increasingly work the space between broker and carrier — impersonating carriers, intercepting load data and redirecting shipments — and carrier-vetting platform Highway says no single vendor can close the gaps: it is building a certified network in which insurers, factors and telematics providers stand behind the data brokers rely on.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is taking comments through Nov. 19 on new details of Grote Industries' Rear-End Collision Warning system — rear-facing radar that pulses amber lamps for up to four seconds when it detects a fast-closing vehicle — after the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance raised questions about whether drivers could confuse the signals with brake lights.
A federal indictment says Nursulton Khaydarov, 33, and others took over established motor carriers — their DOT numbers, motor carrier numbers, email accounts and owners' identities — to book legitimate freight that never arrived; prosecutors put the retail value of the loads he was personally involved in at more than $12 million across at least 24 shipments, and he has pleaded not guilty.
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