Clear reads on the signals driving the 2026 freight market — written for brokers, shippers, carriers, and 3PLs who need to know what's next, not what just happened.
The freight recession that began in April 2022 has run longer than any downturn in modern trucking history. Here are the five SONAR indices that will confirm the turn before the headlines do.
OTRI leads DAT spot moves by two to three weeks. In a market where the spot-contract gap has compressed from $0.39 to $0.11 per mile, the brokers who read it correctly are the ones who hold margin.
Leading shippers are abandoning annual RFPs for quarterly mini-bids. Here's the cadence, the signals that time each bid, and why the 2026 market makes this shift structural.
Load boards tell you what the rate was when the load posted. Here are the four leading signals that tell owner-operators and fleets where to deadhead next.
Shippers expect data-driven insights from their 3PL. Building an analytics team is expensive. Here's how mid-market 3PLs deliver enterprise-grade freight intelligence without it.