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Build Once, Connect Everywhere: The Strategic Advantage of the New FTL eBOL API Standard 

For decades, the full truckload (FTL) marketplace has operated in a world that is fast, dynamic, asset-intensive—and yet astonishingly paper-bound. Even as the broader supply chain has…

Manifest 2026: APIs, Innovation, and Industry Momentum

Manifest 2026 lived up to its reputation as the “Super Bowl of supply chain and logistics” as Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Supply & Demand Chain…

Integrating NMFC Data into Your TMS: What Every Developer Should Know

When it comes to less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, speed and accuracy aren’t nice-to-haves, they are the difference between profitable freight and margin-eating nightmares. By integrating National…

Cybersecurity: Not Just a Technical Choice, a Legal Obligation

For much of the transportation industry’s digitization evolution, cybersecurity (when it was considered at all) was treated as an IT problem: Important but largely optional…

Why NMFTA Brand Guidelines Matter—and Where to Find Them

Whether you’re an association member, media outlet, technology partner, event organizer, or industry collaborator, how the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)™ is represented…

Fraud Prevention Starts with Accurate Freight Classification

When freight fraud is discussed, the focus is often on stolen identities, fake carriers, or forged documents. But one of the most overlooked—and most powerful—fraud…

Four Ways to Use ClassIT+ to Prepare for the Upcoming Docket Changes

ClassIT+™ helps you stay on top of National Motor Freight Classification® (NMFC)™ Data updates, which can mean the difference between planning ahead to ensure uninterrupted business or being blindsided by misclassifications, which can eat into your bottom line. To help…

How Complexity Can Kill Security 

Cybercrime targeting the transportation sector is nothing new, but it has entered a new phase. This phase is defined not by opportunistic attacks on poorly secured…

We’ve Been Listening—and We’re Expanding the Conversation

Over the past several years, National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.®’s (NMFTA)™ classification team has made a deliberate commitment to communicate early, often, and transparently about changes to the…

API Security Was a 2025 Problem—and It’s Not Going Away in 2026

Well, we made it! 2025 is now in the rearview, and 2026 is in full swing. Every year, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)™…

NMFTA Perspective Published in Journal of Commerce

National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)™ staff leadership, in collaboration with NMFTA officers, recently published an op-ed in the Journal of Commerce to provide clarity…

NMFTA Wrapped: Your Top Freight (Blog) Hits of 2025 

Welcome to the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)™ Wrapped 2025—where we turn last year’s most-read freight insights into your very own greatest-hits playlist.  You clicked, you scrolled, you replayed. From cybersecurity, freight fraud must-knows to…