Zach Strickland, FW Market Expert & Market Analyst
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Jun- 2021 -24 JuneInside SONAR
FreightWaves improves opportunity visibility with latest SCI release
FreightWaves improves its Supply Chain Intelligence product with two new visibility tools.
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12 JuneChart of the Week
Panama spread hits all-time high as shippers flee to east coast
Shippers are desperately trying to find a way to get their freight into the U.S. The peak impacts to surface transportation may be in the future.
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10 JuneInside SONAR
FreightWaves SONAR releases Capacity Trend Indices
FreightWaves adds a new way to measure capacity changes in the domestic freight market to its SONAR platform.
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5 JuneChart of the Week
Rate increases drive trucking compliance higher in May
Shippers may have had a little more success with contracted carriers in May, but it came at a high cost.
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May- 2021 -22 MayChart of the Week
Port of Oakland becomes next overflow valve for shippers
Shippers continue to struggle to find a reliable way to get freight into the U.S., which is causing major changes to surface transportation patterns.
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19 MayFreightWaves LIVE
SONAR expands its reefer data
FreightWaves adds exclusive new data set to an already extensive amount of reefer data.
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15 MayChart of the Week
Will rising warehouse and inventory costs feed trucking demand?
In 2019 shippers crammed warehouses full of inventory coinciding with a stagnant freight market. As warehousing capacity tightens, could this contribute to the already tight transportation space?
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8 MayChart of the Week
Transportation sector boom has become self-limiting
The industrial sector is trying to recover faster than transportation can react. There are numerous factors limiting the economic recovery, illustrating that it is harder to turn production back on…
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1 MayChart of the Week
Have carriers learned not to overextend their fleet expansion efforts?
Many carriers expanded their fleets after the 2018 freight boom and were rewarded with an extremely challenging oversupplied market in 2019. The current pattern looks eerily similar to early 2018,…
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Apr- 2021 -24 AprilChart of the Week
Empty-container rush signals worst yet to come for shipping community
Containers have been in short supply, exacerbated by gross trade imbalances between the U.S. and China. The surging flow of empties moving back to the West Coast implies the ships…
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