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Industry FreightWaves - Trucking · Jul 17, 2026
The Unified Agenda of the Department of Transportation (DOT), and in particular that part of it that applies to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, is a laundry list of ongoing processes and aspirational goals that leaves significant room for interpreting what the department and FMCSA’s priorities are for the coming months and year. Maybe too much so: Lawless said of the items on the list, and their projected dates for hard action such as publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the end of this month, “There’s no way you’re going to get all of these things out and done. That reference was to the fact that the National Highway Traffic Safety Agency also has items in the Unified Agenda to deal with the issue of autonomous vehicles.
The Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC) has sharpened its legal arguments in its effort to force the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to decertify the commercial driver’s license (CDL) programs of New York and California. In filings submitted July 10 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, SBTC argued that federal law requires the U.S. Department of Transportation to decertify any state found in substantial noncompliance with federal commercial driver’s license regulations and asked the court to compel the agency to act. “It would certainly be a unique event for a court to force the DOT to take action as SBTC has requested,” Reed said.
Freight shipments backed up in June but expenditures, led by higher truckload rates and fuel surcharges, continued to advance, according to a monthly report from Cass Information Systems. The multimodal shipments component of the Cass Freight Index fell 4.1% year over year in June, a downward acceleration from the 1.2% y/y dip logged in May. SONAR: Outbound Tender Rejection Index (OTRI.USA) for 2026 (blue shaded area), 2025 (yellow line), 2024 (green line) and 2023 (pink line).
The June performance also marked the first time since August 2024 that Mexico’s heavy-duty vehicle industry recorded year-over-year growth simultaneously in wholesale sales, production, exports and retail sales, according to Anpact. Freightliner was the top truck producer and exporter in Mexico in June, producing 9,379 trucks, a 9.6% year-over-year increase. The truck maker’s exports rose 6.7% year-over-year to 3,685 units during the month.
The integration enables advertisers who are buying through Amazon DSP to access Triton-powered digital audio, podcast and streaming inventory, while incorporating Amazon’s authenticated first-party shopping, browsing and streaming signals into campaign planning, targeting and measurement. “Amazon’s addition to our programmatic marketplace gives advertisers a new, data-rich way to reach premium audio and podcast audiences at scale,” Triton President/CEO John Rosso says. The integration extends Triton’s growing roster of programmatic partners.
Amazon has released its holiday fee schedule, as well as promotional and fee guidelines for Prime Big Deal Days and Black Friday/Cyber Monday. The online giant will apply holiday peak fulfillment fees from Oct. 15, 2026 to Jan. 14, 2027 for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), Remote Fulfillment with FBA, Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF), and Buy with Prime services. Holiday peak fulfillment fees will have the same per unit increase over non-peak rates as in 2025, averaging $0.32 per unit.
Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) has entered a new commercial agreement with Electrovaya for wider use of Infinity Battery Technology in its warehouse operations. This new battery agreement sits at the intersection of Amazon's core e commerce and cloud logistics needs, as well as its broader interest in warehouse automation. For investors, it provides another data point on how Amazon is considering its fulfillment footprint, energy use and equipment lifecycle as it scales its network.
Amazon’s fulfillment centers expand beyond Texas, with the company breaking ground on this Louisiana warehouse in 2020. Amazon is looking to expand its Lone Star State footprint with the construction of a new $98 million, 1.2 million-square-foot regional distribution center in the Dallas market of Terrell, Texas, as reported by The Dallas Morning News. Construction could begin as early as August 2026, with completion slated for next year.
Amazon is reportedly closing in on the vacant vertical warehouse at 1237 West Division Street just west of Goose Island in Chicago. It has sat empty since it was completed in 2024, and its developers, Logistics Property, listed the building in October. Now according to Crain’s, Amazon is expected to buy the building at a fraction of what it cost to build it, adding that billionaire Jeff Bezos’s company is expected to cover whatever amount is still outstanding on Logistics Property’s $150 million construction loan.
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