Items Tagged with 'FTR Transportation Intelligence'

Outlook for trucking conditions may only improve to neutral by the third quarter of 2024, as sector struggles with low freight rates and volatile fuel costs

The rail carload and intermodal segments are facing two different outlooks for 2023. Carload is performing better than expected, while intermodal is struggling to compete with trucking.

Conditions forecast to stay negative for nearly a year longer, with impact hitting small carriers hardest

FTR says “plunging” diesel prices have since helped recovery, but trucking market conditions will stay mildly negative into 2024.

Plummeting diesel prices helped loosen market as crucial winter peak draws near

Lackluster rally still mired near two-year low mark as inflation stresses freight demand, FTR says.

Index of shipping conditions for March sinks to most negative reading ever, FTR says.

Index of carrier conditions sank to negative territory for first time since May 2020, FTR finds.

Freight haulers still enjoy market leverage, but advantage shrank in January, FTR says.

Economic index hit seven-month peak in December, thanks to falling diesel prices and rising freight volumes, FTR says.