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J.B. Hunt commits extra $25M to driver spending as freight capacity tightens (opens the original)
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As carrier costs continue to rise this year, J.B. Hunt Transport Services executives are investing $25 million more in driver-related initiatives this quarter than in the spring, CFO Brad Delco told investors September 15. The fleet is also facing other significant expenses in the second half of the year, which could cause third-quarter profits at the No. 4 carrier on the 2026 FleetOwner 500 list to slip below Q2 levels. Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s 14th Annual Laguna Conference, Delco and other
Gatik secures $200M to scale driverless middle-mile operations (opens the original)
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Driverless trucking venture Gatik has finalized a $200 million financing round that co-founder and CEO Gautam Narang says will let the nine-year-old company “scale with speed and discipline.” Narang and his team have built a customer roster that includes Walmart, Kroger, and Canada’s Loblaws chain, as well as PepsiCo, which expanded its work with Gatik this summer. Using Isuzu medium-duty trucks (the OEM invested $30 million in Gatik in 2024), the company focuses on high-frequency operations fro
New holding company builds around Alabama Motor Express with aggressive carrier acquisition plans (opens the original)
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An Atlanta investment firm has set its sights on an acquisition spree across the freight market via a holding company built around Alabama Motor Express, which runs a fleet of more than 500 tractors. Already in the bag for M&T Capital Partners and its newly launched RTB Holdings is the acquisition of JIT-Ex, a Memphis-based truckload carrier that also runs a terminal in Nashville. RTB President Adam McDaniel—who also co-founded M&T in late 2022 after running LTX Solutions for a decade and then h
Einride to add 500 Tesla Semis to autonomous electric fleet (opens the original)
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Autonomous and electric freight company Einride plans to buy 500 Tesla Semi trucks in the next 24 months and run them on its Saga AI fleet intelligence platform, a plan the companies say will be the biggest deployment of its kind so far. The leaders of Einride, headquartered in Stockholm and listed on Nasdaq in June, said the Semis will serve Amazon and other customers and run in freight corridors in California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, and Texas. If completed as planned, the 500-unit deal
Proficient strikes deal for No. 3 hauler Hansen & Adkins (opens the original)
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Proficient Auto Logistics executives have struck a $130 million deal to buy California-based peer Hansen & Adkins to create the market leader in automotive hauling. Together, Proficient and Hansen & Adkins—the No. 2 and 3 players in vehicle transportation and logistics—will own more than 1,350 tractors and employ nearly 1,700 people working from more than 90 locations. The deal also will give Proficient entry into the Canadian market, where Hansen & Adkins gets about 13% of its revenues. The mer
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