spot market

Carriers are rejecting more than 13% of tendered truckload shipments.

Nationwide tender rejections are at 11.5%.

Spot rates and tender rejections exceeded 2024, 2023, and 2022 levels.

Cass’ Truckload Linehaul Index has been up on a year-over-year comparison in every month of 2025.

If Part 1 of this series was about the mindset shift—getting off the hamster wheel of the spot market—then Part 2 is all about the muscle: the actual steps to build, pitch, and maintain shipper relationships that bring consistency to your business. This is where the rubber meets the road. In the Playbook Masterclass, we […]

Let’s be honest. If you’re still relying solely on the spot market to run your business in 2025, you’re not building a business—you’re gambling with your livelihood. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The spot market load board is not a business model. It’s a temporary solution. In a recent Playbook Masterclass, […]

Spot freight is the wild card of trucking that offers flexibility, fast solutions, and sometimes, unexpected windfalls. But is it a viable long-term strategy, or just a short-term fix for supply chain disruptions?

This article breaks down how spot freight works, what determines its pricing, and why shippers turn to it instead of contract freight. While it provides an immediate solution for last-minute loads and market shifts, it also comes with financial unpredictability. Learn how businesses can strategically use spot freight to complement their shipping strategy while maximizing opportunities and minimizing risks.

At Uber Freight’s Deliver conference, its founder and CEO announced same day and scheduled deliveries offerings, advanced tech features and said the company has reached $20 billion in freight under management.

After hinting at a brokerage and managed services integration in its latest earnings report, Uber Freight has launched a spot market update to Uber Freight Exchange to combine its carrier and shipper networks.

At a Morgan Stanley investor conference Tuesday, trucking executives predicted a muted peak season after acknowledging the industry is in the midst bottom of the freight cycle while hoping for some improvement in 2024.

AI is helping the logistics industry solve a massive coordination problem to establish transportation reliability and save shippers, carriers, and brokers a serious amount of time and money.

Falling spot rates, falling contract rates and falling revenues create rising stress and blood pressure in truckload operations teams.

Freight management companies are not making long-term shipping commitments with airlines to avoid getting stuck with unneeded bookings.

Rejection rates in El Paso swung upward in response to an increase in outbound volume, and the Department of Energy clocks diesel prices below $5 per gallon for the first time since April.

The ebb and flow of the logistics market.

Trucker Tools is utilizing FreightWaves’ SONAR to provide rate visibility to the carriers that need it most.

There are a few key factors to consider when looking to book spot market freight, according to my seven years as a freight broker.

How data-driven decision-making can help shippers stay ahead in times of volatility

Truckers often make business decisions without the data needed to justify those decisions. Truckstop.com is trying to make more data available to owner-operators.

FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller analyzes the impact of rising diesel costs on the spot market and the trucking industry.