A soft market is slated to bring a major earnings hit for Knight-Swift. Its adjusted earnings per share is slated to range from 11 cents to 12 cents now, down from a previous projection of 37 cents to 41 cents.
Spot truckload rates continued to slide in March as demand for trucking services moved toward typical seasonal levels, reported DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the DAT One online freight marketplace and DAT iQ data analytics service.
A leading freight company is seeing its stock tank after weak trucking volumes led to a first-quarter earnings miss on both profit and sales.
Spot truckload rates continued to slide in March as demand for trucking services moved toward typical seasonal levels, reported DAT Freight & Analytics.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ profit and revenue fell in the first quarter as demand for its domestic intermodal service softened more than expected and trucking volumes fell in a weak U.S. freight market.
Spot truckload rates continued to slide in March as demand for trucking services moved toward typical seasonal levels, reported DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the DAT One online freight marketplace and DAT iQ data analytics service.
A push by retailers and manufacturers to cut shipping costs is sending trucking industry hopes of an earnings rebound into a skid.
Stubbornly weak freight market conditions have been placing financial strain on third-party logistics companies for the past couple of years with an oversupply of truck capacity driving down rates and squeezing brokers’ margins.
The “worst” of the two-year freight downturn appears to be over, but not all sectors of trucking are recovering at the same speed, analysts said during a Journal of Commerce webcast.
The spot market is struggling to rebalance as the rate of carriers exiting has slowed despite sluggish demand.