FreightTech companies spotlight new or enhanced products for TCA crowd

PHOENIX – The crowded FreightTech field faces a continuous problem: How does a company make its products stand out when so much of their functionality overlaps with competitors’ offerings?

Most of what various FreightTech products offer in particular applications is identical, except for that last slice of functionality with which one company tries to set itself apart. And that’s where the fiercest battles take place.

That reality of the market has led the Truckload Carriers Association at its...

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Stolen load of cellphones involving RXO may be another key broker liability case

A case involving giant 3PL RXO has the potential to add another decision to the body of law regarding broker liability.

RXO (NYSE: RXO) brokered a shipment of cellphones for phone reseller PCS Wireless. The shipment was booked a few months before RXO was spun off as a standalone 3PL by XPO, and RXO is identified in the initial lawsuit as “f/k/a” – formerly known as – XPO (NYSE: XPO).

The shipment totaled about 54,000 phones with a value of approximately $11.5 million. They were to move from Texas...

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J.B. Hunt keeps its 11-year-old debt rating from Moody’s

About 11 years after Moody’s first placed a Baa1 rating on J.B. Hunt’s publicly traded debt, the ratings agency this week affirmed that rating.

It’s been a remarkable run of stability for the trucking and intermodal giant (NASDAQ: JBHT). The Baa1 rating – three notches above the dividing line between investment-grade and non-investment-grade debt – dates back to 2014.

Baa1 is equivalent to the BBB rating of S&P Global Ratings. S&P has had a BBB rating on J.B. Hunt since 2012, though last summer...

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Previsión de RXO Q1: 2025 Upswing se sentirá más como 2014 que 2021

Pronóstico de RXO Q1: tasas de carga de camiones que probablemente aumentarán pero no se disparan (Gráfico: RXO) RXO lanzó recientemente su Q1 2025 Previsión del mercado de carga de camionescon su índice de curva que muestra una continuación de la inflación de la tasa observada por primera vez en...

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RXO Q1 forecast: 2025 upswing will feel more like 2014 than 2021

RXO Q1 forecast: Truckload rates likely to rise but not skyrocket
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RXO recently released its Q1 2025 Truckload Market Forecast, with its Curve Index showing a continuation of rate inflation first observed in Q4 2024. The Curve, formerly the Coyote Curve, is a proprietary index measuring year-over-year changes in truckload linehaul spot rates, excluding fuel.

The forecast highlighted how rising spot rates and capacity exiting the market are driving the upswing, though the authors...

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Pronóstico Q1: las tasas de carga de camiones que probablemente aumentarán pero no se disparan

El lunes, RXO lanzó recientemente su Q1 2025 Previsión del mercado de carga de camionescon su índice de curva que muestra una continuación de la inflación de la tasa observada por primera vez en el cuarto trimestre de 2024. La curva, anteriormente la curva de coyote, es un índice patentado que mide...

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Q1 forecast: Truckload rates likely to rise but not skyrocket

On Monday, RXO recently released its Q1 2025 Truckload Market Forecast, with its Curve Index showing a continuation of rate inflation first observed in Q4 2024. The Curve, formerly the Coyote Curve, is a proprietary index measuring year-over-year changes in truckload linehaul spot rates (excluding fuel). It has climbed steadily higher for seven consecutive quarters. After purchasing Coyote Logistics in September 2024, RXO acquired the data and combined it into a larger dataset.

“The Curve has...

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Trucking execs see green shoots as industry awaits upturn

Signs that a freight recovery may be taking shape continue to surface, said trucking executives on the investor conference circuit this week. The overall sentiment is that the truckload industry is no longer in a recession and that normal seasonal trends have returned, but no one is ready to commit to when a meaningful positive inflection will occur.

“We know we’re coming off the bottom of the market,” Drew Wilkerson, CEO at truck broker RXO (NYSE: RXO), told investors at Citi’s 2025 Global...

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Los ejecutivos de camiones ven brotes verdes mientras la industria espera la mejora

Los signos de que una recuperación de carga puede estar tomando forma continúa a la superficie, dijeron que los ejecutivos de camiones en el circuito de la conferencia de inversores esta semana. El sentimiento general es que la industria de la carga de camiones ya no está en una recesión y que las...

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In a weak quarter for brokerages, RXO’s stock price takes a pounding after earnings

(A quick summary of some key points of RXO’s earnings can be found here.)

With four publicly-traded freight brokerages now having reported earnings for the fourth quarter, the overall picture was not pretty.

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