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Year-end capacity tightness at record levels—for now.

One of the themes of the pandemic-driven freight market has been tight capacity, which has driven up spot rates to

Last week’s industrial production results published by the Federal Reserve reported a 0.4% increase in November. Production has been steadily

The deeper we get into winter, the further south shippers go to meet U.S. demand for winter produce, which is

In the early stages of the pandemic, steelmakers closed or idled around one-third of their plants as customers canceled orders during

Some of the steam appears to be going out of the booming home-building market, which has been the main driver

More capacity in the refrigerated sector is one possible outcome of the recent interim final rule published by the Federal

A recent analysis by Associate Professor Jason Miller at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business dispelled one of

The latest monthly release of PIERS import data highlights the extraordinary import growth the freight market has experienced in recent

Demand for dry van equipment continued to slide last week, along with rates. We saw it coming, as load-to-truck ratios

The latest release of the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index reported a decrease of 6.3% in October after

Reefer volumes are down year-over-year driven largely by the decrease in produce volumes, which according to last week’s USDA data

Some recent news on the manufacturing front indicated new orders and production both fell in November, but both were still