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Demand dips for dry van, and prices follow

With the threat of new tariffs on Chinese imports, there was uncertainty over how truckload markets will react heading into

The freight market has been soft for almost a year, and in our view, slid into freight recession in the

The summer slowdown has arrived for spot market truckload freight. It’s typical for prices to drop around this time of

Reefer rates and volumes continued their summer slide. The load-to-truck ratio was down 16.8% last week, meaning there’s a lot

Although rates have dropped considerably from record levels in 2018, spot market freight volume — actual loads moved — was higher in the

This year’s truckload spot market rates have fallen well short of the heights set in 2018, but it’s a different

In a normal hurricane season, there would be about 13 named storms in the Atlantic Ocean from June through November.

It’s no secret that truckload rates aren’t where they were a year ago. We don’t expect prices to reach the

You may not have a problem getting carriers to cover a load, but every freight broker occasionally hits the wall

It’s natural to prefer predictability over surprise in many parts of your life, but as the axiom says, “change is

Although van freight got a nice boost last week because of the shortened Memorial Day week, the news was a

Are we really on the brink of a freight recession? I’ve seen countless gloom-and-doom forecasts and analyses from some very smart