What we do
Mile Marker Daily is a daily freight and trucking briefing, delivered to your inbox by 6 AM every weekday and readable in under five minutes. Each edition covers the regulatory updates, market data, carrier news, and cross-border developments that matter most to people running trucks and freight across Canada and the Canada–US corridor.
Our readers are owner-operators, fleet managers, freight brokers, logistics directors, and carrier executives — people who have been in the industry long enough to spot noise from signal, and who don't have time to read four trade publications before their first dispatch call. We do the reading so they don't have to.
A typical edition includes the top three to five stories of the day, a market data snapshot with diesel prices and spot rates, a regulatory update when there's something worth flagging, and a single longer piece worth the reader's time. It runs short on purpose. If a day's news doesn't fill the format, the edition is shorter.
Why cross-border
The Canada–US trade corridor is the busiest truck freight lane on earth — roughly $2 billion in goods cross the border every single day. And yet most trade publications cover Canada and the United States as separate markets, reporting on each side in isolation. For carriers, brokers, and logistics teams actually running the lanes, that separation doesn't reflect how their business works.
Regulatory divergence between Transport Canada and the FMCSA creates real compliance complexity — ELD certification, hours of service rules, and safety ratings don't map cleanly across the border. Lane economics on cross-border corridors move differently than domestic markets on either side. Infrastructure projects like the Gordie Howe International Bridge will reshape capacity on the Windsor–Detroit crossing for a generation. The CUSMA review scheduled for July 2026 has implications for trade flows that every Canadian carrier should be watching. None of this fits neatly into a publication that treats the border as an edge case.
Mile Marker Daily was built to cover this corridor as a single market — because that's how freight moves through it.
Editorial standards
Mile Marker Daily holds itself to a small set of rules. They're worth saying out loud:
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No vendor press releases
We don't run product announcements, partnership puffery, or marketing material dressed up as news. If we cover a vendor, it's because something they did materially affects the industry — a significant technology adoption, a market-moving contract, or a business event that reshapes the competitive landscape.
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Sources are named
Every claim in Mile Marker Daily points to a source — a government release, a regulator notice, a named publication, or a named person. If we can't source it, we don't run it. We attribute data specifically: not "data shows" but "according to DAT Freight & Analytics."
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One primary sponsor per edition
We accept a single sponsor per edition, clearly labelled. Sponsorships do not influence editorial coverage — we won't write favourably about a sponsor, and we won't write critically about their competitors to balance it out. Editorial and commercial content are kept strictly separate.
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Corrections are visible
When we get something wrong, we say so in the next edition — at the top, not buried in a footnote. Significant errors trigger a correction notice in the affected post on the web archive. Getting it right matters more than appearing infallible.
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No filler
Editions stay short on purpose. A slow news day produces a shorter briefing, not a padded one. We'd rather send you four strong stories than seven mediocre ones. Your time is the point.
Published by IQTC
Mile Marker Daily is published by IQTC, a North American trucking industry advisory firm founded in 2020. IQTC works with carriers, fleet operators, and logistics organisations on strategic planning, operations optimisation, fleet procurement, and the transition to alternative fuels — the same operational and regulatory landscape the briefing covers every morning.
The newsletter is a natural extension of that work. IQTC's team spends its days inside the industry — tracking regulatory shifts, advising on cross-border operations, and monitoring the market forces that affect carrier profitability. Mile Marker Daily is the briefing they found themselves wanting to read.
Mile Marker Daily is editorially independent of IQTC's consulting practice. Coverage decisions are made by the editorial team and are not influenced by client relationships or commercial interests.
Contact
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