The newsroom ·Founder & Host
Adam Robinson
Adam founded Via Regia after fifteen years marketing the companies that move freight and listening to the people who actually do. He hosts The Long Haul and still answers his own email.
Adam Robinson
Filed from the road
Latest dispatches
Reporting · analysis · conversations
The newsroom · Journalist
Adam Robinson
Adam Robinson reports on the people, systems, and quiet decisions shaping freight. His/her work follows the story past the press release and into the cab, terminal, and brokerage floor.
Adam Robinson
Filed from the road
Latest dispatches
Reporting · analysis · conversations
Trucking & Capacity · Investigation
The phantom freight nobody at the top will name
Double brokering quietly drained an estimated $800 million from carriers last year.
TC
Money & Markets · Interview
Spot rates ticked up a third straight week. Brokers are not celebrating
What the latest move means to the people quoting freight today.
MM
Brokerage & 3PL · Interview
The broker who tells shippers no, and books more freight because of it
A field note on trust, capacity, and the value of a clean answer.
BR
Why this work
“Freight is a human system before it is a market, a network, or a line on a dashboard.”
Via Regia journalists report from the places where the industry actually moves: cabs, docks, terminals, warehouses, and the rooms where consequential decisions get made.
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