The Iran conflict is driving higher energy prices and pushing diesel costs sharply higher at the pump. Freight brokerages are responding. C.H. Robinson ( NASDAQ: CHRW ) announced Wednesday it is offering free discount-fuel cards and free cash advances for fuel to help its network of contract carriers weather the spike. Diesel prices paid at the pump rose sharply higher in recent weeks, with the national average for ultra-low sulfur diesel reaching $5.401 per gallon for the we

Over the past several years, investigators working through The Bannon Report have tracked freight fraud, cargo theft, identity misuse, and suspicious activity across the industry. While records go back earlier, the first clean dataset began in 2022. That snapshot included about 1,400 entities tied to investigations or known risk. At that time, the list supported active cases, not long-term analysis. As investigations continued, the dataset grew fast. By September 2024, it re

A monthly survey of supply chain managers showed extreme capacity tightening and rate growth across the freight market in March, a dynamic last seen at “the height of the Covid era freight boom.” The Logistics Managers’ Index—a diffusion index in which a reading above 50 indicates expansion, while one below 50 signals contraction—returned a reading of 39.2 for transportation capacity and 89.4 for transportation pricing in March. The 50.2-percentage-point gap was “the highest