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Freight Caviar: Top 10 Freight Markets

Get insights on 2025 freight trends, Ohio’s $1B defense hub, J.B. Hunt’s Q4 earnings dip, California’s zero-emissions update, and more.

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Fleet Owner: Why truck volumes, rates will improve in 2025, according to analysts

Annual forecasts from trucking analysts paint a brighter picture for 2025: truck volumes growing by about 1.6% and for-hire rates continuing to improve. But some political uncertainty could create headwinds.

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CCJ Digital: Freight environment signals hope, but policy shifts bring risks

Strong consumer demand, declining interest rates, adjustments in capacity, and improved utilization have offered a slightly improved freight environment.

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Journal of Commerce: Trucking rates out of US ports rise on frontloading, cargo shift

The cost of hauling goods from major US seaport markets jumped significantly toward the end of 2024, with outbound truckload spot rates that rose in a normal seasonal pattern getting an additional boost from a potential strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts.

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AGPROUD: Forage Market Insights: Moisture conditions improving to start 2025

Large supplies and moderate to weaker demand continued to put pressure on hay markets.

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Trucking Dive: Key trucking trends to watch in 2025: tariffs, M&A and rate changes

“The macroeconomy looks good,” one economist said. “But at the same time, we do see policy shocks.”

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Journal of Commerce: US truckload spot rates rising, but shippers keeping lid on contract rates

US truckload spot rates exceeded seasonal expectations toward the end of 2024 as capacity contracted amid holiday demand. But the increase in transactional rates hasn’t translated so far into larger gains in contract pricing early in the new year.

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CCJ Digital: A different job: trucking isn’t what it used to be

Hollywood in the 70s glorified the trucker with films like Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit. The films dramatized the lifestyle of a traditional trucker – the epitome of which has changed dramatically since the release of the smartphone at the turn of the century and later with the ELD mandate.

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Overdrive: 178,000 CDLs downgraded? What really happened in November

In the most recent monthly report from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse, something historic happened -- the number of drivers in "prohibited" status actually declined.

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TPS: Potential port strike could disrupt key industries and freight flow

Negotiations between representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and the USMX port ownership group to prevent a potential strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts are set resume on Tuesday.

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