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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 and correct factual inaccuracies related…
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How Your Shipment Data Actually Changes the NMFC: The Commodity Profile Database
The Commodity Profile Database, or CPD, is a centralized database of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipment data maintained by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)™ to support commodity research and updates to the National Motor Freight Classification® (NMFC)™. The database is made up of observations of individual real-world shipments of…
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Packaging In the Summertime: How Summer Humidity Destroys Paper and Corrugated Packaging — and What to Do About It
This is Part 1 of a three-part series on summer packaging hazards in the LTL environment. Summer brings longer days, higher temperatures, and depending on your service lanes in North America, a…
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A First Look at the 2026 Transportation Cybersecurity Trends Report
2025 was the year the transportation sector stopped asking whether cyber threats might disrupt operations. We had our answer; we saw daily proof that these threats are very real, and…
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What Does “Implementing an API Standard” Actually Mean?
This is Part 1 of the DSDC “Connected Freight Blog” Series. If you’ve downloaded one of the Digital Standards Development Council’s (DSDC)™ application programming interface (API) Standards but haven’t implemented…
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Cybersecurity is a Team Sport: NMFTA’s 2025 Conference Lit Up Austin
If you weren’t in Austin, TX last month, you missed the trucking industry’s most electrifying cybersecurity event of the year. The NMFTA 2025 Cybersecurity Conference brought together the brightest minds,…
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What Your Peers Learned at NMFTA’s 2025 Fall Meeting
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association’s (NMFTA) 2025 Fall Meeting brought members—less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers—and industry leaders together in Washington, DC for several days of impactful committee sessions, member engagement, and…
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Everything You Need to Know about a Bill of Lading
In the world of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, few documents carry as much weight—literally and legally—as the Bill of Lading (BOL). Whether you’re a shipper, carrier, or third-party logistics provider (3PL),…
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Building a Stronger Defense Against Freight Fraud
Freight fraud is no longer a future threat—it is happening today, and its impact is growing. Every day, new reports emerge of stolen freight, fraudulent carriers, identity theft schemes, and…
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When Telecom Attacks Threaten the Supply Chain: What Trucking Needs to Learn from the Secret Service Bust
In September 2025, the U.S. Secret Service announced it had dismantled a sophisticated telecommunications threat network in the New York tri-state area. Investigators discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers…