Europe's freight arteries carried slightly more weight in 2025 than the year before, a modest 0.9 percent rise that speaks less to dynamism than to continuity. The continent's trucking sector moved 1,886 billion tonne-kilometres of cargo, with Poland, Germany, and Spain together shouldering nearly half the load — a concentration that reflects both geography and the enduring logic of industrial scale. Beneath the headline growth, a quieter shift is visible: goods are moving more within borders than across them, suggesting that the integrative impulse of the single market may be yielding, at lea