Nine lanes assessed every morning across ocean, air and drayage, the Seven Stars assessment panel, GRI filings and contract season — with the number and one line on why it moved.
AAR's week-ending-Sept.-5 traffic report shows total U.S. rail volume up 13.8% year over year, but the growth is lopsided — intermodal is outrunning carload by a wide margin while coal keeps sliding.
East Coast rates are closing in on 2026's high with three separate cost pressures compounding at once — and none of them are on a clean expiration date.
AAA's national average hit $5.85 a gallon Friday, topping the June 2022 high by three cents — a jump so fast that EIA's most recent weekly print, taken four days earlier, still shows prices falling.
ULSD futures jumped nearly 5% Tuesday on lost Middle Eastern crude and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries — but the fuel-surcharge tables shippers actually pay off haven't caught up yet.
ISM's August report shows an eighth straight month of expansion, but new orders, backlog and imports all lost ground — and supplier lead times are stretching for a ninth consecutive month.
August's LMI shows transportation pricing at a near-record 90.0 even as capacity readings improve — a combination that points to carriers holding pricing power despite easing tightness.
