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Fleet Owner: Truckload FreightRates Forecast Q22023 Update

Overall, rate movements have aligned with the first forecast we released in October 2022 and the update published in Q1.

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Supply Chain Dive: Yellow shutdown may lead to sticker shock for shippers, analysts say

With bankruptcy looming for the major LTL carrier and its low-cost services, shippers will likely see rate hikes for similar services.

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Fleet Maintenance: Fleet failures playing role in fueling used-truck market surge

ACT Research reports higher Class 8 sales in June, adding to elevated levels in May, and the group’s VP attributes the surge, in part, to more operators exiting the market, allowing carriers that remain to refresh their fleets with younger trucks.

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Overdrive: How a Yellow bankruptcy would influence freight, used truck markets

Yellow Corp.'s pending bankruptcy is a move that has long seemed inevitable, one that shuts the doors on a company just short of its 100th anniversary and ends a tumultuous 15 years.

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Commercial Carrier Journal: How a Yellow bankruptcy would influence freight, used truck markets

Yellow Corp.'s pending bankruptcy is a move that has long seemed inevitable, one that shuts the doors on a company just short of its 100th anniversary and ends a tumultuous 15 years.

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Yahoo Finance: Yellow Corp demise seen boosting rates for rival US truckers

The operational shutdown of Yellow Corp, a major U.S. trucking firm, should help prop up industry rates that tumbled after the cargo bubble of the early coronavirus pandemic deflated last year, transportation analysts said.

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Supply Chain Digest: Supply Chain News: Long Predicted, has the Freight Recession Finally Showed Up?

Like the old joke about economists predicting eight of the last three recessions, in 2021 and 2022 a number of analysts focused the trucking sector forecast an imminent “freight recession.”

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Reuters: Yellow Corp demise seen boosting rates for rival US truckers

The operational shutdown of Yellow Corp (YELL.O), a major U.S. trucking firm, should help prop up industry rates that tumbled after the cargo bubble of the early coronavirus pandemic deflated last year, transportation analysts said.

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Washington Post: Truck drivers are leaving boom-and-bust supply chain jobs

Earnings plummet as retailers work through swollen inventory and consumers spend more on in-person experiences

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Portland Press Herald: Truck drivers are leaving boom-and-bust supply chain jobs

Several thousand truck drivers have fled the freight business this year amid one of the harshest freight recessions in memory.

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