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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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FTR's Trucking Conditions Index from April and the Cass Transportation Indexes for May identify trends such as job growth and economic conditions that could point to a weakening after a nearly two-year cycle of surging freight volumes.
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Are diesel prices driving small carriers out of business? FTR's Avery Vise digs into FMCSA data to explore that.
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High fuel prices and inflation are among the factors prompting analysts to say the freight pendulum is starting to swing back the other way.
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Industrial production and manufacturing output are strong. FTR's Avery Vise explores what this could mean for industrial freight volumes.
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For trucking companies, the biggest single threat from inflation arguably is not in their own costs, but in what higher costs will mean for consumer spending.
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Retail inventories surged to end 2021. FTR's Avery Vise explores why it happened and what it means for freight.
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