Freight Waves

Artificial intelligence has moved from the edges of the supply chain to its center. What began as experimental pilots and proof-of-concept projects has become the operating reality for a growing share of the logistics industry, with AI, machine learning, and large language models now driving the demand forecasting, real-time visibility, document processing, and route optimiza...

Knight-Swift Transportation announced Kevin Knight has retired from his role as executive chairman, effective Wednesday.

Knight was a founder of Knight Transportation and served as the company’s CEO from 1994 to 2014. He played a key role in the company’s 2017 merger with fellow Phoenix-based truckload carrier Swift Transportation. Knight-Swift

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Recently, a driver pulled into an Arizona scale house learned that an officer could reconstruct his entire multi-state trip from license plate readers and roadside cameras, matching the real timeline against paper ...

The federal government is widening its crackdown on tariff evasion and customs fraud, with recent actions targeting auto parts, aluminum, steel and rail components as importers face heightened scrutiny over country-of-origin claims, product classifications and declared customs values.

The cases show how tariff enforcement is increasingly moving through multiple chan...

A growing clamor over the rollout of the Motus registration system by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has led to two statements issued by the agency, with notable differences in tone and approach in the pair of missives.

Motus is a