It could have been worse. Tariffs on heavy-duty trucks are not as onerous as they sound. At the outset, we confess that we have never bought a heavy-duty truck or …

As others spread doom and gloom or pie in the sky, FTR has held off on crafting major changes to our economic forecasts based on tariff fallout, mostly because of …

If you have been mystified by the resilience of trucking employment in the face of a prolonged freight recession, it turns out there was a simple explanation: The jobs figures …

The Canadian rail work stoppage is now behind us after a shutdown that lasted just 17 hours before the government stepped in. Leading up to this disruption, some ocean liners …

Driver capacity is exiting the for-hire market more slowly than many observers expected. With a growing anticipation of a recovery soon, the question now is whether carriers will be even …

With the major exception of housing, seasonally adjusted economic indicators in May 2024 generally were at least even with April and were in some cases significantly stronger. Inflation also was …

More than 55,000 carriers exited the market this year through July. Since mid-2020, the trucking industry has seen a staggering period of entrepreneurship. Over the past 37 months, the Federal …

From mid-2020 through mid-2022, the North American trucking industry saw an unprecedented period of entrepreneurship as drivers left larger carriers to set up shop on their own. Larger trucking companies …

On the list of dynamics that are not operating the way they did before the pandemic is the link between for-hire trucking’s payroll employment and freight demand. That disruption should …

At FTR, we work hard to understand how the macroeconomic environment impacts commercial freight transportation so our clients can make smarter supply chain decisions. Given the excessive chatter that exists …