Road Freight & Construction Fleet News

Insights on road freight and construction fleet data — telematics, compliance, ETAs, and industry news, updated weekly.

July 21, 2026—6 min

Measuring Road Freight Disruption in Europe: From Gut Feeling to Index

Driver shortage, toll shocks, volatile lanes: how to measure road freight disruption in Europe with baselines, variance, and live fleet data.

July 16, 2026—8 min

Route Optimization and Network Planning When the Tachograph Is Your Most Underused Dataset

Why driver hours, not distance, decide your routes — and how remaining-drive-time and tachograph data sharpen route optimization and network planning.

July 14, 2026—6 min

What Does Road Freight Really Cost per Kilometre in Europe? A 2026 Breakdown

Road freight cost per km in Europe, broken down: driver, fuel, tolls, vehicle, overheads — and how to compute your own live number.

July 3, 2026—6 min

On-Time Performance in Road Freight: How to Measure It, What Good Looks Like, and Why Most Numbers Are Wrong

OTD, OTIF and on-time pickup explained — realistic road freight benchmarks, why self-reported numbers overstate, and how to measure properly.

Long-exposure photograph of vehicle light trails passing through an urban underpass at night

July 1, 2026—5 min

A Practical Cost Reduction Framework for Road Freight: Where the Money Actually Leaks

Four levers to cut road freight costs — empty km, fuel, waiting time, tolls — and the fleet data each one needs. A practical framework.

Aerial view of a highway interchange with a white semi-truck in transit

June 30, 2026—5 min

The Road Freight Data Glossary: 25 Terms Every Transport Professional Should Actually Understand

rFMS, primary data, geofencing, ISO 14083, TCE: 25 road freight data terms explained in plain language — with the vendor traps flagged.

Isometric 3D render of the CO3 data layer model — a concrete platform with lime-green glowing data cables running through internal channels, topped by two objects: a wireframe scaffold structure on the left representing raw, fragmented telematics inputs, and a compact industrial hardware unit labeled CO3-DLM v2.1 with a "DATA NORMALIZED" status display on the right, symbolizing unified output.

June 25, 2026—7 min

Build vs. Buy in Transport AI: Why the Data Layer Decides Who Wins

Most transport AI projects fail at the data layer, not the model. A layer-by-layer build-vs-buy framework for road freight and logistics operators.

Abstract logistics yard timeline showing demurrage and detention in road freight, with glowing geofence data, loading dock delays, dwell time zones, and vehicle-sourced waiting time visibility.

June 19, 2026—5 min

Demurrage and Detention in Road Freight: Where the Hours Actually Disappear

What detention really costs hauliers, why most charges go unrecovered, and how vehicle data turns waiting time into a manageable cost.

Photorealistic night scene of a semi-truck in a wet European logistics yard, overlaid with fragmented green data lines and subtle tracking panels symbolizing poor transport data quality, wrong ETAs, coverage gaps, invoice disputes, and unreliable operational visibility.

June 18, 2026—5 min

5 Signs Your Transport Data Quality Is Quietly Costing You Money

Wrong ETAs, invoice disputes, indefensibleCO2 numbers — five signs poor transport data quality is costing you, and the common root cause.

CO3 dashboard showing a relay swap route from Florence to Rome — two tractors, three legs, one continuous trailer journey

June 15, 2026—7 min

Coupled, or just coincidence? Telling which truck is really pulling your trailer

In a mixed fleet, trailer GPS tells you where the cargo is — not which tractor is pulling it. CO3 Transport Leg Analyzer closes that gap with co-travel detection, not ...

June 9, 2026—8 min

Amazon Just Entered LTL. Here's What European Road Freight Should Actually Do About It

Amazon opened its LTL and freight network to everyone. The real signal for European carriers isn't trucks — it's the data layer. A practical playbook.

June 4, 2026—6 min

The EU Mobility Package, Explained for Fleet Operators

Driver hours, vehicle returns, cabotage, posting and the July 2026 van rules — the EU Mobility Package in plain language for fleet operators.

June 2, 2026—6 min

Primary vs. Modelled CO2 Data: Why Your Calculation Method Decides Your CSRD Score

Primary, modelled or default data? How your transportCO2 method affects accuracy, auditability and your CSRD Scope 3 disclosure.

June 2, 2026—6 min

What Counts as a Reliable ETA in Road Freight — and Why Most Aren't

Most road freight ETAs are precise but unreliable. Here's what makes an ETA trustworthy — and how to measure your own accuracy.

May 29, 2026—8 min

Inside Europe's 320+ low-emission zones: the construction-truck routing problem

More than 320 low-emission zones across Europe — and the heavy-truck rules tighten every January. The routing playbook for construction fleets.

May 27, 2026—6 min

One construction site, 40 trucks, 12 carriers: the mixed-fleet visibility problem

Forty trucks a day across twelve carriers, and only the contractor's own fleet appears in any telematics dashboard. The 30-day integration plan for closing the 80% vis...

May 27, 2026—14 min

CO2 reporting and zoning rules on construction sites: a UK and Germany compliance deep-dive

CSRD, PPN 006, Lkw-Durchfahrtsverbote, CTMP, ULEZ — two regulatory stacks now bite at the same time, on the same truck. A compliance guide for construction contractors...

May 26, 2026—7 min

ISO 14083 vs GLEC: a road-freight carrier's guide to picking the right standard

ISO 14083 is the standard. GLEC is the carrier manual. They are not alternatives — they are layers. How to use both, where they differ in practice, and which one your ...

May 25, 2026—10 min

The 10 visibility questions in every 2026 freight RFP

75% of European shipper RFPs in 2026 score visibility before rate negotiations. 80% require Scope 3 emissions data. Here are the ten questions shippers ask, the answer...

May 18, 2026—12 min

Construction fleet telematics: from reactive to real-time

Every construction site already has the data. The trucks have GPS, the OEMs have feeds, the carriers have portals. None of it lives in the same place — and in 2026 tha...

Container truck driving through a highway tunnel at night

May 11, 2026—14 min

How freight forwarders win with real-time data

The forwarders winning 2026 tenders aren't buying trucks. They're building a real-time data layer across every carrier they use.

May 6, 2026—15 min

Drive time, honestly: a transparent tachograph layer for mixed fleets

Most ops floors answer "can this driver do this load?" three times a day, by hand. Here's how we made drive time data trustworthy enough to act on.

European road freight visibility — multi-vendor telematics aggregated into one shipment record

May 4, 2026—14 min

The definitive guide to road freight visibility in Europe

Real-time visibility is now the baseline customers, regulators and insurers demand from European road freight. Here's what it means and the architecture behind it.

April 29, 2026—9 min

Cargo Security in Road Freight

Cargo theft is at record highs — one GPS feed on the tractor is no longer security. Here's the telematics stack high-value shippers now demand from carriers.

April 24, 2026—12 min

CSRD & Fleet CO2 Compliance

CSRD compliance: Shippers must now publish CO2 data that holds up to an auditor — here's what road freight carriers need to deliver so tenders aren't lost to competito...

December 18, 2025—8 min

VIN-Based ETA Accuracy

The Anatomy of an ETA: CO3 launches VIN-based vehicle identification to eliminate the "one-size-fits-all" approach that is costing you hours

November 11, 2025—6 min

Unlock real-time temperature & fuel data — Now live in the CO3 Portal

CO3 adds a powerful new feature in the CO3 Portal — temperature and fuel level data, available instantly, effortlessly, and in real-time.

November 4, 2025—2 min

500+ Active Telematics Integrations — and Growing

CO3 now runs 500+ active telematics integrations and continues to expand, adding approximately 20% new integrations each year. Customers receive partner data almost im...

October 9, 2025—6 min

Improve your ETA accuracy with the CO3 Virtual Tacho

In the road freight industry, efficiency hinges on predictability. When a commitment is made to move goods with precision, uncertainty is the biggest obstacle. Our lat...

March 1, 2023—5 min

Beyond GPS data

Today’s businesses are increasingly focusing on sustainability initiatives while striving to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The logistics industry is no exceptio...

January 1, 2023—6 min

Improving data quality

The use of modern IT systems in logistics and transport brings measurable benefits. However, in order to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by in-depth i...

June 5, 2022—5 min

Define what TSL stands for

On 5th June we celebrate World Environment Day. At this time it is worth drawing attention to solutions that help reduce the negative impact of road transport on the p...

January 22, 2022—5 min

Visibility and data security, what is important to know?

Transports monitoring is gaining importance and emerges as a vital trend in the TSL industry for the year 2022. When sharing the location of the fleet with your custom...