Quest for Quality Truckload: Long-haul leaders manage volatility
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Shipment and expenditure decreases trend down, notes Cass Freight Index March trucking tonnage trends down, reports ATA FTR Shippers Conditions Index enters negative territory DAT March Truckload Volume Index sees modest March gains National diesel average, for week of April 22, is down for the second straight week More NewsThe truckload (TL) business is volatile by nature. Freight demand spikes and falls with fickle customer demands as well as the normal cyclicality and seasonality of business. As our John Schulz recently reported, the past three years have been even more volatile.
“Coming out of the 2008-2009 recession in which many TL carriers idled thousands of trucks, the sector has slowly rebuilt capacity to where it was six years ago,” says Schulz. “Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.”
The one thing LM readers say they do know is that that these 36 carriers have offered world-class service this year.
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Shipment and expenditure decreases trend down, notes Cass Freight Index March trucking tonnage trends down, reports ATA FTR Shippers Conditions Index enters negative territory DAT March Truckload Volume Index sees modest March gains National diesel average, for week of April 22, is down for the second straight week UPS reports first quarter earnings decline LM Podcast Series: Assessing the freight transportation and logistics markets with Tom Nightingale, AFS Logistics More LogisticsSubscribe to Logistics Management Magazine
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