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CCJ Digital: Will AI infrastructure and data centers move the trucking needle?
Nov 10, 2025
Tech giants continue to boost artificial intelligence spending. Google has projected capital expenditures of $91 to $93 billion for 2025, a significant increase from its earlier forecast of $85 billion. Microsoft’s spending rose 74% to reach $34.9 billion this year. Meanwhile, Meta’s investments climbed from $9.2 billion to $19.37 billion year over year.
Transport Topics: Trucking Grows More Confident About Freight Market Upturn
Nov 06, 2025
Confidence has grown in recent weeks that an upturn in the freight cycle is approaching more quickly than previously expected.
The Trucker: Spot truckload rates cooled ahead of Halloween
Nov 05, 2025
Load posts on the DAT One load board dipped by 6% to 2.16 million last week and truck posts declined for the third straight week, slipping 9% to 221,480.
CCJ Digital: FMCSA’s CDL crackdown is fracturing freight networks
Nov 03, 2025
The truckload market faces mounting volatility following the FMCSA’s ruling on non-domiciled CDLs and English language proficiency requirements, according to a recent report.
Logistics Management: 2025 Digital Freight Matching Roundtable: From spot chaos to smart capacity
Nov 01, 2025
AI-driven digital freight matching tools are giving brokers and shippers the agility to thrive in a volatile market—automating workflows, tightening utilization, and reshaping the economics of freight. Our esteemed panel shares how this now critical market is evolving
FreightCaviar: Automation scales from highways to rail, brokers face heat over illegal CDLs, ATA rethinks the “driver shortage,” and more in today’s newsletter.
Oct 29, 2025
The numbers don’t lie. Freight’s biggest problem isn’t tech or regulation, it’s the economy. From $140M tariff hits to 48K layoffs, the pressure’s everywhere. We break it down in today's feature.
CCJ Digital: New Dual-facing AI Dashcam, an AI Freight Platform & Carrier Vetting Tech
Oct 28, 2025
Queclink Wireless Solutions, a provider of IoT devices and hardware, has launched a new dashcam.
The Trucker: Demand for reefer trucks heats up in Florida amid ICE activity
Oct 27, 2025
Load posts on DAT One rose 2% to 2.26 million last week, while truck posts fell for the second consecutive week, down 5% to 232,703.
Journal of Commerce: Shrinking capacity pushing up US reefer truck rates
Oct 27, 2025
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.
American Journal of Transportation: DAT spot truckload freight trends, Week 43 (Oct. 19-25, 2025)
Oct 27, 2025
Demand for reefer trucks heats up amid winter holidays, ICE activity