# Tag: Carrier

## Dry van report: The capacity isn’t gone — it just got selective
The Journal of Commerce Truckload Capacity Index edged up from 72.4% in Q3 2025 to 73.5% in Q4, but don’t

## The Carrier Survival Guide: How to protect your margins when diesel won’t stop climbing
Take a look at some strategies and tools to help combat rising diesel costs, from deadhead-reduction strategies to cash flow solutions.

## Flatbed report: The construction boom that fueled flatbed is fading
Nonresidential construction spending fell 0.6% in December, and the numbers underneath that headline are worse than they look for flatbed

## Reefer Produce Report: South Texas goes full squeeze; Every lane hits slight shortage
South Texas is the tightest produce origin in the country. All nine lanes out of Mexico crossings through South Texas

## Dry van report: Why spot market carriers feel the diesel pain first
The war in the Middle East has quickly injected volatility into global energy markets, and diesel prices are responding faster

## Flatbed report: The port that moves the machinery that moves America
Every March, flatbed carriers along the East Coast and into the Mid-Atlantic feel a familiar tightening — and the Port

## Reefer Produce Report: The calm lasted one week; Nogales, South Texas, and Florida all tighten
The big picture Last week’s all-Adequate reset? Gone. Slight Shortage conditions are back at three of the four biggest produce

## Dry van report: The freight market is waking up — LMI says so
The February 2026 Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI) reported a solid 61.5 reading, up from 59.6 in January and marking one

## Reefer Produce Report: Every produce region hits adequate as Florida’s slide continues
The Big Picture For the first time in weeks, every single origin in the USDA report is showing Adequate truck

## Flatbed report: Tonnage ticks up, but the recovery remains slow going
The ATA For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index edged up 0.4% in January to a seasonally adjusted reading of 113.0, following a

## Dry van report: Manufacturing is back, and that’s good news for truckload demand
For the second straight month, U.S. manufacturing is expanding, and the February ISM Manufacturing PMI of 52.4 carries some meaningful

## Dry van report: Move over, jersey — Chicago has a new claim to fame
America’s road congestion problem isn’t getting better — and the trucking industry is paying the price. The American Transportation Research