Ace Doran acquired NHH Services’ Equipment, bringing an additional 50 trucks and a pool of specialized owner-operators into the buyer’s network.
Straightship and Dragonfly now offer U.S.
ACT Expo 2026 will bring nearly 400 executives, fleet operators and technology leaders together May 4–7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the opening keynote scheduled for Monday, May 4 at 2:10 p.m., a session that directly targets capacity management and LTL network strategy.
Two-way trade between the United States and Mexico reached $872.83 billion in 2025, concentrating freight volumes and truck flows along the southern border and reinforcing Port Laredo, Texas, as the primary inland gateway for cross-border commerce.
The national master agreement covering thousands of DHL Express drivers and warehouse workers across 26 local unions in 16 states is set to expire on March 31, 2026, and union members have authorized leadership by a 96% margin to call a strike if no acceptable offer is presented by that deadline.
Canadian rules allow a 16-hour on‑duty window with 13 hours of driving while the U.S.
Trucking HR Canada (THRC) has doubled the number of wage incentives in the Student Work Placement Program, unlocking capacity for roughly 700 additional paid student placements across Canada’s trucking and logistics ecosystem after an announcement by CEO Angela Splinter at the Women with Drive summit in Toronto on March 5.
Michelle Arseneau of GX Transport was announced as the 2026 recipient of Trucking HR Canada’s Women with Drive Leadership Award during the 12th annual Women with Drive Leadership Summit in Toronto, a recognition that directly reflects decades of operational leadership and workforce development in Canadian freight transport.
The sudden imposition of a 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act immediately raises landed-cost calculations for importers, forces freight forwarders to reprice quotes and shifts container-routing decisions at major gateways — expect spot trucking rates and drayage capacity to tighten as ports and inland distribution centers receive adjusted manifests and revised instructions.
Contract truckload shipments rose 1.4% in January 2026 (seasonally adjusted), the biggest monthly jump since October 2024, yet overall contract volumes still sit about 9.2% below the 2022 peak, illustrating a recovery that’s coming from the supply side rather than a surge in freight demand.
For the week ending Feb.
U.S.–Canada freight totaled $53.7 billion in November, a 13.1% decline year-over-year.
