Brokerages

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics. Waggoner offered up insights on various logistics and supply chain trends and themes, including: freight economic conditions, capacity and rates, M&A, technology, and cross-border logistics, among others.

Carriers and brokers remain optimistic despite revenue declines and tariff pressures, truckstop.com and Bloomberg Intelligence reports.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Chris Burroughs, President & CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association

Along with acquiring Drexel’s 3PL business, Kenco said this acquisition also includes Drexel’s four London, Ontario-area physical locations—which are equidistant from Toronto, Detroit, and Buffalo and operate as multi-client distribution spaces in a campus-like environment, and enable Drexel’s resource sharing and more flexible operations, coupled with 100 Drexel associates becoming Kenco employees.

This represents A. Duie Pyle’s second expansion in 2025, bringing the total number of its facilities to 32, with the company noting these new facilities are key aspects of steps the company is taking to expand its network in the Northeast.

Earlier this week, Beaverton, Ore.-based DAT Freight & Analytics, operator of the largest North American-based truckload freight marketplace sad it has acquired Trucker Tools, a Reston, Va.-based provider of trip planning, shipment visibility and freight matching solutions.

Following a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) recently issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) entitled “Transparency in Property Broker Transactions,” the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) took FMCSA to task—not for what was included in the NPRM, but for what was left out.

Chicago-based Uber Freight, an enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics, with a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, announced today it has introduced a new offering focused on providing brokers with the ability to digitally book and execute loads on the Uber Freight carrier network—and remain the sole broker on the load.

The influential 35th annual State of Logistics Report released today shows how logisticians are adapting to what the report calls “permanent volatility” in their supply chains while they ride out the wave of uncertainty.

Camden, N.J.-based third-party logistics (3PL) services provider NFI acquired the freight brokerage operation of New York-based Transfix, a logistics technology services provider that streamlines shipment data to better help shippers make informed decisions to optimize time and revenues.

Flexport officials explained that the Convoy Platform is comprised of an AI-powered marketplace aggregating a large, reliable pool of carrier owner-operators into a common platform with automated end-to-end load management, giving brokers access to a unique pool of capacity that is highly flexible, operates 24/7, and provides high tracking visibility.

As key parts of this expansion, the company said that it has set up new locations in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Laredo, Texas, and also tapped 30-year logistics veteran Troy Ryley as President, Echo Mexico.

Roughly three months after it acquired the technology and intellectual property of Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy, following the closing of Convoy’s business, due to the effects of the freight recession and a slowdown in capital market activity, San Francisco-based freight forwarding and customs brokerage services provider Flexport said earlier this month that it has formally introduced the rollout of the Convoy platform to its service portfolio.

Chicago-based Uber Freight is rolling out a pilot program based on a new scheduled application programing interface (API), which it said will represent the “first activation” of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) Technical Standard.

While this week’s fourth quarter earnings call, for Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS, was replete with interesting information and data, including nearly 8% revenue decline and 12,000 layoffs, another interesting takeaway was related to its truckload brokerage business, Coyote, which it acquired in 2015.