The FreightWaves Pricing Power Index is a new weekly feature that highlights the balance of power between shippers and carriers.
Shippers, carriers hurry to get freight out of Florida ahead of Hurricane Dorian.
McLeod built automated pricing for contract and spot and digital load matching products.
The features allows SONAR users to see how sentiment evolves over time in the freight futures market.
Contract rates are still sliding down against steady spot rates.
California’s produce shipments can wreak havoc on trucking capacity in the spring. This year’s season was s shell of the previous two.
FreightWaves Freight Intel Group predicts an increase in trucking company failures in 2019. Read why they make that prediction in this article.
The volatile 2018 freight market is still being felt throughout the nations trucking industry. The freight futures settlement
Capacity has returned to freight markets and spot rates are falling against “contract.”
Commentary by Bill Driegert, Senior Director of Uber Freight, explores the current and near-future of on-demand freight.
This morning (July 8) Morgan Stanley’s transports equities analysts cut their 12-month price targets for most of the companies they cover, but said that following the release of second quarter earnings it may be time to invest in the cyclical stocks again. The analyst team, led by Ravi Shanker, expects second quarter results for transportation […]
Spot rates have fallen back to 2017 levels, but costs are still on the rise for carriers. Plus, ocean container rates increased on July 1st from China to the U.S.
Spot rates have fallen back to where they were two years ago. The problem for carriers; their costs have not.
The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group is producing research culled from FreightWaves SONAR and other sources. Read about its first several research papers and how to learn more.
The truckload spot market experienced another month of softness in May, confirming recent commentary that normal seasonality isn’t taking shape.
Trucking could get hit “very hard” by an economic recession, ATA warns
We look at the trucking futures forward curve, Morgan Stanley’s index, the Coyote Curve, and projections from Susquehanna.
Capacity normally tightens into the holiday weekend, but this Memorial Day is nothing like the previous years.
Freight volumes recover from Easter lull as volumes are flat from a year-over-year perspective. Comparing load volumes is not the whole story, however.
FreightWaves has also observed downward pressure on contract rates and the beginning of a capacity bleed-off.
