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    Trucks, trailers, tonnage: Trucking Dive’s data hub shows the state of the industry

    Five charts from leading industry sources capture high-level market data.

    Updated July 10, 2025
  • The inside of an updated facility for XPO in Kernersville, North Carolina, with bay areas for loading and unloading freight.
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    XPO opens North Carolina facility, featuring 300-plus doors

    “It was a key investment for us,” East Division President Tim Staroba said.

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    Trump rolls out reciprocal tariffs for Japan, South Korea, others

    The U.S. detailed the rates it will impose on imports from certain countries starting Aug. 1 in identical letters shared by the president.

    Updated July 9, 2025
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    Trump’s tariffs: Tracking the status of international trade actions

    The U.S. has rolled out a deluge of tariffs, sparking responses from trading partners. Here's where each tariff – threatened or realized – currently stands.

    Updated 18 hours ago
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    DOT announces $180M for Florida parking — again

    The money is part of over $275 million in truck parking funding, according to the department.

  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on June 27, 2025.
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    US preps for August return of country-specific reciprocal tariffs

    The Trump administration plans to reinstate the levies Aug. 1 after alerting individual trading partners of their specific duty rates starting Monday.

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    Trump tax law draws praise, criticism from industry groups

    The final tax package restores a 100% bonus depreciation provision, but a ban on overtime taxes fails to benefit truckers, stakeholders noted.

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    Overall trucking costs moderate, thanks to some relief: ATRI

    Three areas increased beyond the cost of inflation: truck and trailer costs, driver benefits and tolls, the American Transportation Research Institute found in its annual survey. 

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    US manufacturing activity improved in June, but sentiment remains low

    Weak demand and price increases continued last month as a return of country-specific tariffs looms, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

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    Love’s expands travel stop footprint in Arizona

    The company’s Winslow store adds 81 parking spaces along Interstate 40.

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    Medical examiners’ records must be filed electronically: FMCSA

    Thirty-seven states are already compliant with the new rule, which aims to reduce document fraud.

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    Texas Supreme Court reverses nuclear verdict involving Werner crash

    The state’s highest court ruled in the carrier’s favor, dismissing the more than $100 million truck crash liability.

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    DOT agencies withdraw speed limiters proposal

    The move was part of a "pro-trucker package" that also declared funding for truck parking and highlighted efforts to reduce regulatory burdens.

  • A workplace poster published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is displayed featuring the EEOC logo.
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    Denver trucking firm settles with EEOC, ending 9-year lawsuit

    Western Distributing agreed to pay $919,000 for back pay and damages but maintained no liability for alleged disability violations.

  • A FedEx Freight tractor-trailer drives on the road. The industry will be closely watching the LTL carrier's spinoff in the next 18 months.
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    FedEx Freight announces C-suite leadership for spinoff

    Longtime executives with the company and an outsider were on the list of new roles shared.

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    Fed on hold to see if tariff-induced inflation persists, Powell says

    “A majority of my committee has said that they do expect to cut rates between now and the end of the year,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said.

  • A FedEx Freight truck on the road on Oct. 21, 2021.
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    FedEx Freight operating income drops 6%

    The dip comes as the segment plans to break off as its own company in June 2026.

  • One of Roadtex's new facilities, located in Greenville, South Carolina, showing pallets of items scattered in a vast warehouse.
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    Roadtex opens terminals in South Carolina, Tennessee

    The temperature-controlled facilities add 50,000 square feet to the company's nationwide network.

  • A wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center featuring Mid-America Trucking Show banners for its 2024 event.
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    Trucking conferences to watch in 2025

    Plan your work travel this year with this list of events that bring trucking stakeholders to the same place.

    Updated June 30, 2025
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    Early peak season signals challenging market ahead for trucking

    Shippers continued to frontload cargo in May ahead of tariffs, giving a boost to dry van volumes, but analysts note carriers still lack pricing power.

  • A tractor-trailer parked near a door of A. Duie Pyle's new facility in Bridgeport, West Virginia.
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    A. Duie Pyle opens new facility at former Yellow site in West Virginia

    “We have full state coverage now,” COO of LTL Solutions John Luciani said.

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    Dolche Truckload files for bankruptcy after defaulting on tractor, trailer loan payments

    “We are fully operational,” founder and owner Desi Evans told Trucking Dive. “This is not a shutdown. It's a restructuring of our debts.”

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    Tariffs, manufacturing weakness expected to further drag down truckload demand

    Carriers will "be playing catch-up for the rest of the year,” DAT’s Dean Croke projected.

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    Hub Group chief accounting officer resigns, replacement named

    Brent Rhodes is leaving to pursue other opportunities after a little more than a year in the role.

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    Economy heading toward ‘significant slowdown,’ Conference Board says

    “Maybe we should start thinking about cutting the policy rate at the next meeting, because we don’t want to wait until the job market tanks,” a Federal Reserve official said.