A startup founded by a former CIA officer just pulled in $60 million to bring intelligence community tactics to one of the most unglamorous corners of the American economy — and Washington is paying attention. GenLogs, an Arlington, Virginia-based firm that deploys roadside sensors and artificial intelligence to track truck movements across the country, closed its Series B round this week, led by Battery Ventures with participation from IVP, Cathay Innovation and 9Yards. The

United Airlines pulled the plug on 600 flights this week as it forced through one of the most ambitious technology overhauls in recent aviation history — a cloud migration that executives are betting will future-proof the carrier but which left thousands of passengers stranded in the process. The airline shut down its reservation system for three and a half hours in the early hours of Wednesday, transitioning its core booking infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. The planned

Federal regulators escalated enforcement of electronic logging device standards in late January, pulling eight devices from the approved list within a two-week span after companies failed to meet minimum technical requirements — though two have since been reinstated following swift corrective action. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration removed the devices for noncompliance with Title 49 CFR regulations governing ELD functionality. FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs s

The Surface Transportation Board is intensifying scrutiny of America's largest freight railroads as complaints mount over service disruptions linked to controversial operational changes implemented in recent years. At issue is Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR), a lean operating model that has swept through the industry, promising enhanced efficiency and profitability. Under PSR, railroads run longer, less frequent trains on fixed schedules while dramatically reducing loco

American container imports ended 2025 in a four-month decline that analysts warn will extend deep into 2026, as President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies trigger a fundamental reshaping of global commerce away from US ports. Inbound volumes plummeted 6.4% year-over-year in December to 1.9 million twenty-foot container units, according to industry analyst John McCown's monthly tally of the nation's top ten gateways. The slide follows a 5.7% drop the previous month, m

A massive winter storm system pummelling the eastern United States has triggered the worst wave of flight cancellations since the COVID-19 crisis, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers and exposing persistent fragilities in the nation's air travel infrastructure despite years of promised improvements. More than 8,500 flights were canceled across American airports between Monday and Wednesday, with an additional 15,000 delayed as blizzard conditions swept from the Mid-

STG Logistics became the largest trucking company to seek bankruptcy protection in 2026 when it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization January 12th, carrying more than $1 billion in debt onto the growing pile of freight industry casualties. The 41-year-old intermodal and logistics giant entered into a restructuring support agreement with equity sponsors and lenders that eliminates roughly 91 percent of its debt whilst providing $150 million in fresh capital to keep operations ru

The largest US airlines recently unveiled their 2025 financial results, delivering headlines that suggest another chapter in American economic resilience. United Airlines recorded revenue of $59.1 billion last year, while American Airlines brought in $54.6 billion, both company records. Delta Air Lines projects 20% earnings growth through 2026, driven predominantly by premium cabin demand as corporate and high-income travellers sustain spending. The aviation industry has embr

Amtrak has implemented sweeping service reductions along one of the East Coast's busiest rail corridors, eliminating a daily Norfolk-to-Washington train and replacing it with express buses as construction intensifies on Virginia's Long Bridge Project—a four-year effort to eliminate one of the region's most notorious rail bottlenecks. Effective January 12th, the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority's construction schedule requires extensive daytime work windows that have forced A

America's container shipping sector is entering what analysts are calling a reckoning, with freight rates from East Asia plummeting as carriers' attempts to impose price increases collapse under weak demand and persistent overcapacity. Rates from China to the US West Coast tumbled 12 percent this week, while East Coast routes fell 11 percent, continuing a steady decline since early January that has caught carriers off-guard. The drops come despite industry efforts to implemen

2025 was a year of uncertainty and disruption, and one question was whether the Environmental Protection Agency would proceed with or delay the 2027 heavy-duty truck emissions regulations. Late in the year, we heard from the American Trucking Associations that the 2027 nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions limits will partially go into effect in 2027. There’s been no official announcement from EPA, but the general expectation is that the agency will announce changes to the rule by m

Airlines are battening down the hatches ahead of what looks to be the biggest winter storm of the season so far. Forecasters are predicting accumulating snow and ice could affect a wide swath of the country late this week and well into the weekend. AccuWeather on Wednesday warned of "widespread, severe impacts" from an Arctic blast slated to snarl travel from Texas and Oklahoma to major East Coast cities ranging from Atlanta to Charlotte, Washington and the Northeast. If thos

Market-share data, lack of full merger agreement, TRRA transaction cited in STB ruling that application is incomplete The Surface Transportation Board on Friday 16 January issued a setback to Union Pacific’s effort to acquire Norfolk Southern, rejecting the railroads’ merger application as incomplete — although that move offers little clue to the eventual prospects for the first transcontinental merger. The decision will slow the merger process, requiring the two railroads to

Southern California's container terminals face a looming capacity crunch as new immigration enforcement policies threaten to strip the nation's busiest freight gateway of up to a quarter of its truck drivers, industry analysts warn. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimates that up to 5% of all commercial driver's license holders nationwide could be removed from the workforce due to immigration-related policies implemented in early 2026, according to Maersk's

It’s shaping up to be another tough year in 2026 for US freight. With a big hand from a Department of Transportation crackdown on foreign drivers, the trucking industry is finally getting a handle on the overcapacity that has plagued the industry since the end of the pandemic and has kept freight rates low. But constraining supply alone won’t reverse the industry’s fortunes. The demand side of the equation still looks anemic for 2026 after the goods economy was thrown into a

Delta as usual announced strong quarterly results and positive expectations, underscoring both with a new order for thirty Boeing 787-10 aircraft. “We’re excited to buy the 787,” CEO Ed Bastian said on a Tuesday call with reporters. “We’re the last of the U.S. majors to be finally acquiring that aircraft. It’s been a longtime since we took a Boeing widebody. “We look at the dash ten and realize it’s going to have great utility, particularly in the transatlantic and South Amer

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the safety recommendations that emerged from accident investigations. That’s according to an original analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. Behind those numbers, the Howard Center found, is a powerful industry that uses its money an

Meet the New Year, same as the Old Year. The effects of rising tariffs are expected to tamp down import demand, the leading retail industry trade group predicts, as policy-driven uncertainty rolls on into 2026. The recent months of year-over-year declines in import cargo volume through the busiest U.S. container ports is expected to continue in the New Year, according to data from the National Retail Federation’s Global Port Tracker. Volume totaled 2.07 million twenty foot e

The US military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, also left stranded tourists wondering how to get home — or to their next destination — after the FAA temporarily closed airspace over the Caribbean. Julie Hurwitz was one of many left with a travel-induced headache after airlines canceled more than 425 flights in and out of the Caribbean on Saturday, with over half of them to and from Puerto Rico according to

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said this week that it is delaying the cancellation of thousands of migrant truck driver licenses. The announcement means approximately 17,000 migrant truck drivers won’t have their commercial licenses revoked on Jan. 5. Instead, they can remain on the roads and will have another two months to re-test and re-apply. The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Department of Transportation , which announced in November 2025 that it