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Despite the chronically sluggish freight market, payroll employment in for-hire trucking rose in November and was basically on par with job levels a year earlier. Or was it? FTR's Avery Vise explains.
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Don’t expect a trucking boom in 2025, but a number of industry analysts and economists believe the long freight recession is coming to an end.
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Economic indicators rarely all tell the same story, but increasingly, they are pointing to an improving economy and light at the end of the tunnel for a trucking industry beleaguered by low freight rates.
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Significant changes in the National Motor Freight Classification system will impact less-than-truckload fleet operations in 2025. Are you ready?
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The overall economy is performing better than many people think, but overcapacity in the trucking industry is still keeping freight rates from rising, according to FTR transportation analysts. Find out why they think we'll start seeing a slow improvement.
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Trucking is still suffering from the overcapacity hangover that developed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic boom, but some major truckload fleets are refusing to lower rates any further. Are there green shoots indicating a freight market recovery on the horizon?
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Optimal Dynamics is using artificial intelligence to help truckload carriers make better decisions and has added features to help optimize EDI tender acceptance, bidding workflow, and dispatching.
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As the U.S. economy stuttered along in 2023 toward a hoped-for “soft landing,” trucking struggled. But many economic and trucking industry analysts believe 2024 is looking up.
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DAT Analytics reports a good November for truckload freight volumes driven by a post-Thanksgiving surge.
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American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 1.1% in September after rising 0.2% in August. In September, the index equaled 113.9 (2015 = 100) compared with 115.2 in August.
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