Industrial production and manufacturing output are strong. FTR's Avery Vise explores what this could mean for industrial freight volumes.

For trucking companies, the biggest single threat from inflation arguably is not in their own costs, but in what higher costs will mean for consumer spending.

Retail inventories surged to end 2021. FTR's Avery Vise explores why it happened and what it means for freight.

You might recall reports that preliminary figures for payroll employment and retail sales were weak in December. FTR's Avery Vise takes a closer look at...

Economic growth and freight rates are expected to remain solid well into 2022, according to transportation analysis firm FTR, but the struggle to find...

An analytical look at consumer spending, the pandemic, and the spot market — where we've been, where we're headed, and what that means for owner-operators...

Is a broad statistic that can give us a real-time second-level read on the magnitude and direction of freight trends? The answer is rail carloads.

How did publicly traded trucking fleets perform financially as the roller-coaster year of 2020 headed back uphill in the third quarter?

The global shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to wreak havoc in economic forecasting.

A number of commercial fleets are planning to order fewer fleet vehicles in MY-2021, but the majority of surveyed fleet managers state there will be no...