About Carrier Atlas Freight Intelligence
News and analysis for small fleets, owner-operators, dispatchers, and the brokers and shippers who hire them — published alongside the Carrier Atlas national directory of US motor carriers and freight brokers.
What we cover
Carrier Atlas Freight Intelligence runs daily reporting across the topics that move money in trucking: markets and rates, carrier business (bankruptcies, M&A, layoffs), FMCSA compliance and operating authority, broker fraud and vetting, owner-operator finance, driver jobs and life on the road, TMS and load-board reviews, and truck equipment and OEM news.
How the reporting works
Every article is built from named industry sources — trade press, regulator bulletins, earnings disclosures, and primary documents. Drafts are written with AI assistance under tightly constrained author personas that require verbatim quotes, named speakers, and sourced figures. A staff editor reviews every article before it publishes; no article is posted without a human sign-off. See our Editorial Standards for the rules the drafting and review process enforces.
Corrections and contact
If you spot a factual error, let us know and we will correct it on the record. See the Corrections page for our corrections policy, or use the contact link in the site footer to reach the editor.
Our writers
Diana Korczak
Diana Korczak covers freight broker fraud, double-brokering, fictitious-pickup scams, factoring fraud, identity theft, and the question every carrier asks before pulling a load:…
Hank Rivers
Hank Rivers covers truck hardware — tractors, trailers, engines, drivetrains, emissions aftertreatment, EVs and hydrogen, telematics hardware, ADAS, tires, APUs, recalls, and…
Marvin Aldridge
Marvin Aldridge covers the rulebook side of trucking — FMCSA rulemakings, DOT enforcement, CSA scoring, ELD mandates, drug-and-alcohol clearinghouse, audit prep, and the…
Tess Crawford
Tess Crawford tracks the money in trucking — spot and contract rates, diesel cost trends, lane capacity, freight demand, carrier earnings, bankruptcies, M&A, layoffs, and…
Yolanda Stark
Yolanda Stark covers everything between the cab and the bank account — owner-operator finance (insurance, taxes, fuel cards, factoring), driver hiring and pay, parking and…
AI-assistance disclosure
Drafts are produced using large language models acting under strictly defined author personas that require verbatim-only quotes, named-speaker attribution, and sourced figures. Every article is reviewed by a human editor before it is published. Quote validation runs automatically against the original source text for every draft and every subsequent edit.
Publisher
Carrier Atlas Freight Intelligence is published by Carrier Atlas, a national directory of US motor carriers and freight brokers used by shippers and brokers to find and vet carriers, and by carriers to surface their company in search results. The directory side of the business is independent of editorial — coverage decisions are not influenced by which carriers list with us.