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Avery Vise, FTR vice president of trucking, explained why the forecaster believes we'll see a sluggish freight economy for the near future.
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The freight recession continues to bump along the bottom, with the spot market continuing to be battered by overcapacity amidst freight demand that is somewhat improved but still soft.
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Jeff Kauffman, HDT's contributing economic analyst, takes a look at economic and trucking indicators reflecting an upcoming economic downturn.
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How can we reconcile recent freight market weakness with January's strong employment statistics? FTR's Avery Vise digs into the jobs numbers.
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Slowing inflation means the Fed will slow down its pace of rate increases that it implemented to slow the overheated economy. The questions are, how much, how fast — and how might that affect the outlook for trucking fleets?
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FTR looks at key economic and trucking industry indicators and offers an outlook for freight transportation in 2023.
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Is the U.S. in a recession? The usual measures of the country's economic health have been rendered unreliable by the continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Two experienced trucking analysts share what they're seeing in the numbers.
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What do inflation, inventories, employment numbers, freight rates and more mean for trucking's outlook?
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“This is a bit of an interlude in what is going to be a stormy, stormy path the rest of this year and into 2023 as well,” said Tom Kloza of OPIS.
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Traditionally, trucking was looked to as an early indicator of larger economic problems. Find out why HDT’s economic analyst thinks this freight cycle may be different.
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