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While supply chains remain uncertain, here’s how SONAR can help freight keep the status quo.

The refrigerated truckload market has fallen back in alignment with the broader market this spring, but that doesn’t mean it will stay there.

Operating cost inflation is largely hidden, but fuel costs help explain why the domestic truckload market is headed for a turn.

Heavy truck orders are not an indicator of for-hire truckload market health and haven’t been since the pandemic ended.

Whether it is nearshoring, tariff bypasses or something else entirely, the Southern border is becoming increasingly important for domestic transportation.

FreightWaves’ State of Freight webinar for March highlighted signals that the commercial transportation market is moving in a positive direction.

Pricing trends and rejection rates are signaling a market shift is approaching. What should market participants do?

Even as carriers’ pricing power deteriorated, freight demand was consistently robust throughout February.

Inventory and procurement teams have earned their salaries over the past five years. Are they entering an extended period of stability, or is this only a rare moment of reprieve.

Takeaways from the State of Freight webinar this month kick off with an “abysmal” February.

Transportation providers should watch both coasts for increasing spring activity in March.

The current level of deterioration is historically fast, meaning the truckload market has the increasing potential to flip to a much tighter environment without much notice.

The early stages of this recovery are characterized by a rebalancing market, a return to normalcy after a four-year roller coaster of volatility.

Spot rates were 22 cents higher from July 2020 to February of 2022 — the pandemic era.

While the world around us slowed down to enjoy the holidays, the SONAR team was hard at work building a foundation for the biggest year yet in product delivery.

FreightWaves Inc. is divesting its media arm to focus on its high-frequency data offering, SONAR. FreightWaves media is being acquired by its founder, Craig Fuller, and merged into FLYING Media Group (FMG). FMG will be renamed Firecrown.

Lagging effects of the pandemic are still making evaluating the economy a challenge.

This monthly report analyzes the current state of the freight market based on critical insights from our SONAR platform.

Shippers’ mood has been buoyed by positive economic prospects for the U.S., while brokers and carriers are encouraged by a possible market shift.

The domestic truckload market gets rattled by a series of winter weather systems.