Volume growth dissipates to kick off November while rejection rates remain well below year-ago levels. Tightness in Southern California will put upward pressure on rates.
Volume growth dissipates to kick off November while rejection rates remain well below year-ago levels. Tightness in Southern California will put upward pressure on rates.
Tender volumes rebound as tender rejection rates jump back over 20%. Meanwhile, spot rates break the three-week downward decline.
Load volumes are stable with volume growth inbound. Spot rates follow rejection rates on a downward slide.
Load volumes are stable with volume growth inbound. Spot rates follow rejection rates on a downward slide.
Freight volumes in the largest markets are starting to accelarting, signaling the start of the peak truckload season.
Freight volumes in Southern California are starting to ramp, signaling the start of the peak truckload season.
Elevated accepted tender volumes and rates signal that carriers are maintaining pricing power. Truckload capacity constraints are easing as contract rates climb.
Strong freight volumes signal that carriers are firmly in the driver seat with regards to pricing power.
Strong freight volumes signal that carriers are firmly in the driver seat with regards to pricing power.
Spot rate snap back signals that carriers are firmly in the driver seat with regards to pricing power.
In this sensitive market, small changes to the balance have deep, long lasting impacts.
In this sensitive market, small changes to the balance have deep, long lasting impacts.
Freight demand is not going to abate in the next few months, and there will not be any meaningful addition to fleet capacity in the meantime.
The freight markets have reentered “chaos is business as usual” territory. All the major indices have been eerily calm since the winter storm disruption. Yearly comps are becoming more difficult given the panic buying that shot volumes and rejections up this time last year. Don’t let the weakening comps distract you, this market can’t get much better.
Carrier momentum continues.
The shippers are in the strongest pricing power position in the DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index history, but for all the wrong reasons. Volumes are stable, but well below normal levels, and tender rejections are at the lowest level in the index’s 3-year history.
XPO’s Brad Jacobs says 2020 is most likely a lost year.
This week, the shippers gain pricing power for the 5th time in the first seven weeks of 2020. Volumes are flat, rejection rates are low and rates are even lower.
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The FreightWaves Pricing Power Index is a new weekly feature that highlights the balance of power between shippers and carriers.
