Diesel is tightening the market freight demand won't
Plus the Canada tariff that just landed and the reefer premium that refuses to break
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The Load Letter is a free weekly freight market newsletter for freight brokers, written by a working broker. Each issue covers the week's three biggest moves in rates, capacity, fraud, and policy, and ends every section with the exact line to say to a shipper about it.
9 issues
Van and reefer went dead even at $2.65
Rates climbed while volumes fell. Your routing guide is the first thing that breaks.
Van rates look soft. The trucks left anyway.
Trailer duties, a forty-year demand spike, and thieves hunting your priciest loads.
Carriers just told Wall Street your rates are going up
Broker liability hit the earnings calls, and the import wave is about to move inland.
Capacity Left. Demand Never Showed Up.
Canada tariffs landed, pharma's on a two-year clock, and flatbed just found its AI angle.
The soft market just officially died
Record pricing index, an early peak, and a reefer baton that just passed at higher rates.
The freight market just split in two
One half is firming fast out of LA. The other is stuck at six-cent reefer rates.
Flat volumes, surging costs, and your liability just changed
A bug in Texas is squeezing border capacity right as citrus runs hot. Here's the play.
Rates are rising. Volumes aren't. Here's why that matters.
Plus: South Texas reefer just did 40% up, 40% down in two weeks.
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