After over a year of declining volumes and rates, trucking spot rates have leveled and demand has just witnessed an unseasonable jump.
The pandemic may have exposed long-term weakness to the railroads’ intermodal growth plans.
Southern California markets were flush with transportation activity during the pandemic. That has eroded and then some. This has not only left transportation networks exposed operationally but also created pricing gaps.
What do historically low rejection rates mean for the truckload industry?
Perhaps the biggest question of 2023 for domestic trucking is when will the surplus of capacity fade to a point that prices stop falling. One data point provides deeper insight than simply a count of drivers or tractors.
Lunar New Year normally brings a slow shipping period for imports, but the lead-in period was also lackluster. With many companies calling for a return to seasonal patterns later in the year, just how close are we to that being a reality?
Many people get hung up on trying to figure out how much capacity is readily available in trucking when they should be more focused on monitoring demand trends.
Are supply chains already manifesting significant changes in domestic transportation patterns?
What conclusions can we draw from the relationship between imports and trucking?
Truckload carriers nearly auto-accepted load requests during the holidays. While this may look like a blessing to shippers, the implications are not great.
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