Anthony and Zach have special guests Former Flex CEO and current strategic adviser to Clear A.I. Mike McNamara and FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom on to discuss coronavirus’ impact on various pieces of global supply chains and give an update on how the economy and freight market are reacting domestically.
Carriers give back pricing power as volumes and rejections rates plummet. Spot rates are negative week-over-week for 95% of lanes from Truckstop.com.
FreightWaves SONAR has new features to help subscribers gain more insight and clarity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Truckstop.com, the leading Platform-as-a-Service provider for the trucking industry and FreightWaves, the leading provider of trucking news and analytics, are partnering to provide resources to transportation providers responding to relief projects and supply chain distributions.
Even as freight volumes surged to record levels in March, drivers spent less time driving.
Anthony and Zach discuss the swelling unemployment numbers as well as the plummeting freight volumes and what the endgame might look like for the COVID-19 outbreak.
National freight volumes and tender rejections are falling as fast as they rose. Carriers remain in slight pricing power position, but their footing is slipping with each passing week,
Air cargo rates spike in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Medical supplies are in high demand while much of the air capacity is grounded.
With unemployment levels skyrocketing and a stimulus package on the table, Anthony and Zach are joined by Andrew Cox as they debate how the U.S. should handle the COVID-19 outbreak as a country economically, as a business, and as an individual.
While this may be the peak pricing power for the carriers for this freight cycle, the carriers gain another 10 points in the DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index this week.
Trucking capacity is the tightest it has been in 17 months thanks to the surging volumes, but all signs point to this being a short-lived event.
The continuation of panic buying and restocking has swung the DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index violently to the upside. Carriers are now in dominant pricing power position for the first time since we began this series in September.
Zach and Anthony discuss current economic trends in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and what’s to come.
FreightWaves SONAR can help those in the freight industry stay current with what is happening in transportation and logistics during the coronavirus pandemic.
Import volumes are showing the first signs of recovery since the initial decline in early February.
Anthony and Zach bring in former fund manager Seth Holm to discuss how the volatile equities markets can hit the world of transportation and trucking.
American consumers are panic buying goods from every aisle. To meet this spike in demand, shippers must procure trucking capacity at higher-than-contracted rates creating a significant 15 point swing to the carriers.
FreightWaves’ Freight Forecasting Platform proves its model fits any logistics setup.
Each week, FreightWaves will release a short video highlighting the top moving markets around the country using our proprietary datasets. Included in this weekly update will be a combination of freight volumes, capacity and more to give viewers a deep understanding of which markets to notice. The Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) is SONAR’s proprietary […]
Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index – USA SONAR: OTVI.USA People have been clearing store shelves in parts of the country as if they were preparing for a zombie apocalypse this past week. This mass purchasing—or threat thereof—has spiked trucking volumes in the U.S. as the national Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) increased […]
