An earlier warning that a shipment may arrive late gives a customer more time to respond. It does not establish whether dispatch can recover the delivery, whether replacement equipment is suitable or who has authority to change the plan. The operational value of visibility depends on the decisions it enables after the warning appears. Responses from Millhouse Logistics and transportation software provider Spotter AI address different parts of that process: communicating shipm

An autonomous truck may detect an obstacle during a demonstration and still face a different test at a working site. Dust can obscure sensors. Lighting changes across a shift. People and vehicles enter shared operating areas. Readiness depends on whether the truck can recognize those conditions, respond safely and stop when its perception is no longer reliable. Written responses to The Supply Chainer from Seyond and AIT Worldwide Logistics describe complementary barriers to d

Holiday containers are arriving, fleets are receiving predictive alerts, and autonomous trucks are being prepared for working sites. In each case the limiting factor is the same: the system can only execute what the surrounding process has already made usable. Incomplete paperwork at the dock, an unprioritized battery alert, or a contaminated LiDAR unit all produce the same outcome - the asset or the inventory sits while the operator waits for the missing step. Nazarii Horosh

Updated: October 25. A carrier can increase its fuel surcharge and still leave part of its fuel exposure unresolved. The price of diesel affects which loads are worth accepting, how valuable a return journey becomes and how much waiting a vehicle can absorb before the work becomes less profitable. For shippers, that means the fuel bill can influence both the quoted rate and the availability of transport. An outbound load with an attractive return opportunity may present a dif

The pump island is still wet from the last truck. Diesel vapor hangs in the air and mixes with the hot asphalt. Tires squeal as another tractor-trailer pulls in and brakes hard. The driver looks up at the price board. California diesel is above $8.20. The number is higher than the last stop and higher than the national figure that was used for the week’s fuel surcharge. U.S. on-highway diesel averaged about $6.28 a gallon in mid-October 2026, according to the Energy Informati

A roadside warning requirement illustrates how removing a truck driver changes more than the driving task. When an unattended vehicle stops, someone or something must still warn approaching traffic. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s October exemption allowing cab-mounted warning beacons addresses that specific problem, giving qualifying autonomous truck operators an alternative to traditional warning devices. For shippers, the decision creates a narrower purch

A visibility platform can show a delayed shipment, a lane problem, a capacity constraint or a service risk. It does not say what to do next, who should act, or which trade-off to take across cost, service, capacity, utilization and the customer. That call is still a planner's. The American Transportation Research Institute's 2026 Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking put the average cost of running a truck at $2.336 per mile in 2025, up 3.4% from $2.260 in 2024. Exclu

Commercial auto is still a line most carriers would rather shrink than grow. AM Best put the 2024 underwriting loss at $4.9 billion, the fourteenth straight year in the red, with a combined ratio of 107.2. Capacity has pulled back. Rates have not. That is the market Corgi Insurance, an AI-native carrier, is trying to enter with a dedicated trucking program under Daniel Hausman, named vice president in September. The appointment is not the story. The bet is whether continuous

A port does not fail because the autonomous truck cannot move a container. It fails when that truck shares a lane with a manned one, a crane holds the box, and the exception has no owner. PD Teesport awarded Westwell a framework for autonomous horizontal container transport at Teesport Container Terminal 2. Splash247 reported the contract at €4.44 million, or $5.1 million, covering electric autonomous terminal tractors and an automation system, running from October 2026 to Oc

As LTL carrier networks become more selective and capacity grows harder to secure, logistics providers are discovering that waiting until shipments are ready to move leaves too little room to protect service levels or control costs. The ope...