freight demand

Trucking has tightened without the demand tailwind that defined the pandemic cycle.

Every fall, there is a peak season that hits with fury before the traditional retail peak season. The Midwest transforms as combines sweep across golden fields and trucks line country roads waiting for the corn harvest to finish. For farmers, it’s the culmination of a season’s work. For carriers and drivers, it’s the start of […]

Are declining import bookings a response to erratic trade policy, or are there broader economic signals to be gleaned?

Import demand has increased over the past two years as companies have largely corrected inventories and navigated treacherous waters in the maritime industry.

Innovative Logistics Group’s Adam Wingfield says new enforcement power over truckers with drug violations could be a freight capacity game-changer.

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

Consumer spending is likely to decline in the coming months, adding to weak freight conditions.

There are some positive signs that the freight market has cleared most of the post-pandemic rubble, but full recovery is still a ways off.

Flight hours are a proxy for air cargo demand and the amount of time all-cargo aircraft are flying is falling.

Are supply chains already manifesting significant changes in domestic transportation patterns?

Import volumes have not realized the dip in shipping orders yet. What does this mean?

Shippers are requesting as much capacity as ever from maritime shippers in August after slowing their pace through most of the summer. What should we take away from this?

Return of millions of US visitors to be ‘boon’ for transportation and logistics

The number of drivers prohibited from driving due to drugs matches an estimated shortfall of drivers needed to keep up with freight demand.

Capacity is retightening in California as demand surges once again. There are new patterns emerging that may lead to a battle for capacity between the two coasts.

Unlike freight demand, the typical things we see play out on the capacity side of the equation prior to a holiday have not (at least to this point).

Class 8 truck orders have exceeded 30,000 a month for six consecutive months, more bookings than in the previous 18 months combined.

This week’s DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 70 (Carriers) Last week’s DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 65 (Carriers) Three-month DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 75 (Carriers) The DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data in FreightWaves SONAR to analyze the market and estimate the negotiating power for […]

All trucking operational costs fell in 2019 as freight demand contracted. Drivers earned less per mile but received bigger retention, signing and safety bonuses, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.

Increased freight volume and higher carrier profits always drive Class 8 truck demand. The circumstances in 2020 differ from 2018’s tax cut-driven boom, but reasons for the surge are identical.