intermodal

The freight market has been sending mixed signals for months, but one trend stands out clearly as we move deeper into 2026: trucking spot rates have staged a meaningful recovery, while intermodal rates remain stubbornly anchored near cycle lows. Look at the data. Truckload spot rates (inclusive of fuel) are holding elevated around $2.80 per […]

Rail freight data showed a waiting game by U.S. shippers as commodity and intermodal volumes declined. 

An accounting error at Hub Group has placed its financial statements for the first three quarters of 2025 under review.

Freight on U.S. railroads plunged into the red in the latest data, after posting across-the-board gains the previous week.

Falling prices for containers moving from Asia to the United States could be one indicator that truck rates and tender rejections will soon continue to move up.

Canadian National said fourth-quarter revenue and operating income improved but warned of flat freight traffic in 2026. 

Canadian National saw fourth-quarter revenue and profits climb on improved efficiency and higher freight volumes.

A competing rail alliance drew off Norfolk Southern intermodal volumes in the fourth quarter, leaving freight volumes downward. 

Norfolk Southern revenue, earnings fell in the fourth quarter on weaker freight volumes.

Filter to succeed Rourke.

Rail freight volumes in the United States posted increases across the board in the latest weekly data. 

Union Pacific today reported record financial and operational results for 2025 despite a drop in fourth-quarter operating income.

The Federal Maritime Commission is investigating whether ocean carriers are restricting truckers’ and shippers’ choice of chassis providers.

Grain helped lift U.S. rail freight in the latest week’s data amid weaker intermodal and carload shipments.

Fourth-quarter profits at CSX were negatively affected by continued freight weakness, which the railroad anticipates will persist.

CSX said severance expenses, lower merchandise freight and coal offset higher freight rates as earnings fell short of estimates for the fourth quarter.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat fourth-quarter expectations as cost reductions more than offset a revenue decline.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations Thursday after the market closed.

U.S. rail carload freight and intermodal shipments for the first week of this year improved nearly by double-digits.

The January State of Freight webinar continued with the message that the market may have made a turn that will stick around.