July 21, 2026 2:35 pm, EDT “It’s going to be extremely busy,” says Tenney. (Adamkaz/Getty Images) key takeaways: Trucking M&A activity improved in the first half of 2026 as freight market conditions recovered and sellers who had delayed exits returned to the market. Capacity cuts, rising freight rates and strong investor confidence supported dealmaking, although
July 13, 2026 at 8:00 am, EDT key takeaways: Transportation Topics has relaunched its print issue, after more than a year in the works, following an initial design preview of its Top 100 For-Hire Carriers list edition. Burke says the relaunch reflects reader research that shows busy trucking professionals are increasingly consuming digital news first
June 29, 2026 at 8:00 am EDT key takeaways: Transportation Topics has shifted its print edition to a bi-monthly, magazine-style format with expanded analysis and long-term industry coverage. TT says the change retains the amount of feature content while concentrating more insights, rankings, supplements and special sections in fewer issues. The publication will pair the
Used vehicle prices have not bounced back the way many buyers had hoped. Clean-title inventory is still expensive, dealer markups haven’t completely disappeared, and the affordable end of the market remains thin. As a result more people have started looking at salvage auctions, not because it is a perfect solution, but because the math works
TT invites its readers to take a brief look at the publication’s transformation over the past few years. (Debra Devine/Transportation Topics via TT Archives) June 20, 2026 at 7:00 am, EDT key takeaways: Transport Topics will relaunch its flagship print product as a bi-monthly magazine, with redesigned issues starting on June 29 and July 13.
From left: Crown Chairman Mike King and Tenet CEO Hugh Kirkpatrick announce their firms’ merger at ECA Marketplace 2026 in Arlington, Texas, on April 29. (Tenet Transportation Tech) June 5, 2026 5:00 pm, EDT key takeaways: Tenet Transportation Tech merged with Crown Data Systems, combining carrier operations software with airfreight trucking software and operating out