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Final duties take effect on Chinese van-type trailers, Landstar’s insurance costs climb with revenue, and Old Dominion lifts LTL pricing on flat volume.

Mexico’s cargo chamber calls a nationwide trucker strike, Marten Transport posts a thin third-quarter profit, and a trucker’s concealed-carry case ends at the Supreme Court.

Heartland Express returns to a small third-quarter profit as freight volumes and pricing improve, and a New Orleans attorney is sentenced to 32 months in a staged truck crash scheme.

Knight-Swift beats its own third-quarter guidance and plans rate increases, Ryder raises its 2026 outlook, and September trailer orders reach their highest level since December 2022.

With van spot rates near $3.09 a mile, tender rejections above 14% and diesel at $6.276, here is how to read spot and contract rates, load-to-truck ratios, tender rejections and volume indexes, what they say about the market now, and a weekly checklist.

With diesel at $6.276 a gallon and fuel now trucking’s top concern, here is how fuel surcharges are calculated, how base price, MPG and regional indexes change what you get paid, how to find the fuel inside spot rates, and a checklist for carriers and brokers.

With diesel at $6.179 a gallon and payment terms stretching, here is how freight factoring works, what recourse and non-recourse really cover, what it costs in 2026, how FMCSA’s broker bond rule affects carriers, and a checklist before you sign.

Reefer rates hit a record $3.62 a mile in September, but most of the jump is fuel; here is how to price both tractor and reefer unit fuel, what the FDA sanitary transportation rule expects, how to avoid temperature claims, and a Q4 checklist.