Insights
For the Road Ahead
Get expert tips, TMS strategies, and freight tech trends for brokers, carriers, and shippers, all in one place.
Get expert tips, TMS strategies, and freight tech trends for brokers, carriers, and shippers, all in one place.
AI wisdom means understanding that your business doesn’t run on algorithms. It runs on people, relationships, and split-second decisions when everything goes sideways.
The CDL crackdown isn’t going away. But carriers that track the right numbers, do the math, and stay ahead of compliance will thrive while everyone else panics.
The freight market has crashed before and will crash again, but the difference the next time will be whether you’ve learned to roll with the punches or are still waiting to get knocked out.
Your operation’s size, process maturity, and variability should dictate where you start and how you scale. That’s the thinking behind the AI hierarchy at EKA Solutions: a practical hierarchy.
If you cannot deliver on time, it’s game over. You lose the business. You lose the revenue. You lose the relationship. Fifty perfect deliveries do not matter when the fifty-first misses its window.
The rules have changed — survival means mastering global disruption as your new normal.
The non-domiciled CDL debate won’t rescue your operating ratio. Neither will any other version of “more drivers are coming.” Capacity isn’t your problem in this trucking market. Margin is.
We are living in an era of profound and accelerating change — AI, tariffs and geopolitics impacting supply chains, social media, etc. — that create asymmetric business environment outcomes that greatly increase business risk.
Every freight tech vendor is tripping over themselves to pitch you AI-powered everything. Predictive this, automated that. But they’re skipping the most important part: AI sits downstream of your data architecture and workflow design.
The 2026 trucking industry outlook starts with a hard truth: The freight just isn’t there yet. Manufacturing output barely clawed back to 2019 levels through 2025. Consumer spending kept tilting toward services instead of goods.
Schneider reset the benchmark on scheduling. Some larger carriers have slashed invoice lag with AI workflows. Now other carriers can do the same with the right platform and approach.
We’ll show you exactly which insurance strategies work, what data matters most to underwriters, and how to position your operation for better rates year after year.
