Crude ran 11% and diesel hasn't caught up yet
Flatbed load-to-truck doubled year over year while the posted rate went down three cents.
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8 issues
Rates fell four cents. Trucks fell more.
Plus the diesel story nobody is pricing right, and a parcel surcharge that hands you freight.
Diesel is tightening the market freight demand won't
Plus the Canada tariff that just landed and the reefer premium that refuses to break
Van and reefer went dead even at $2.65
Rates climbed while volumes fell. Your routing guide is the first thing that breaks.
The soft market just officially died
Record pricing index, an early peak, and a reefer baton that just passed at higher rates.
The freight market just split in two
One half is firming fast out of LA. The other is stuck at six-cent reefer rates.
Flat volumes, surging costs, and your liability just changed
A bug in Texas is squeezing border capacity right as citrus runs hot. Here's the play.
Rates are rising. Volumes aren't. Here's why that matters.
Plus: South Texas reefer just did 40% up, 40% down in two weeks.
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