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Trucking
Liberation Day triggers panic mode for manufacturers
The difficulty in comparing “hard” versus “soft” data is that sentiment influences decisions that will eventually bear out in the hard data.

Layoffs and Bankruptcies
Q1 ends with thousands more freight layoffs

American Shipper
Tariff backdrop finds ocean rates steady
Tracking Tariffs
Global Supply Chain
Trump unveils wide-ranging global ‘reciprocal’ tariff plan
Tariffs that President Trump announced Wednesday will vary, but he said that as a starting point, new levies on imports from many nations will equal half what those nations charge on exports from the U.S.

Global Supply Chain
‘Liberation Day’: A look at Trump’s tariff timeline and what to expect

Chart of the Week
Surface transportation demand starting to soften
SONAR High Frequency Data

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The Stockout
Shippers opt for lower-cost, slower services
Reflecting the tariff pull-forward, rail intermodal takes share from truckload.
The Stockout
Flatbed market anything but flat
The Stockout
Fear of more tariffs prolongs retail pull-forward
State of Freight Webinar
5 takeaways from State of Freight: Getting ready for auto tariffs
In the March State of Freight webinar, Craig Fuller and Zach Strickland talked about a freight market on the verge of auto tariffs.
State of Freight: Taking stock of the market after a month of Trump
The State of Freight webinar for February focused on the market uncertainty brought about by the first month of the presidency of Donald Trump.
Takeaways from State of Freight: Volatility in Washington, intermodal surge
In the first State of Freight webinar for the year, intermodal and politics were on the agenda.