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September 2025 Shipping Industry Outlook: Trends Shippers Need to Know
Key Takeaways:
How Do Freight Rates Affect Service Failures?
- How has the freight recession impacted the transportation industry?
- What causes service failures in the trucking industry?
- How are freight rates and service failures related?
- What can shippers do to make their freight more successful?
Does it seem like your freight shipments are failing more lately? You’re not alone — and you’re not imagining things.
What Is the Right of First Refusal in Transportation?
As a freight shipper, you’re always running into transportation-industry-specific terms, jargon, and abbreviations. Even if you’ve been in the industry for decades, the constant barrage of lingo can be confusing at best — and downright frustrating at worst.
What is an Asset Carrier with Brokerage Authority?
- Asset carrier with brokerage authority definition
- How asset carriers with brokerage authority, asset carriers, and freight brokerages differ
- Advantages of working with an asset carrier with brokerage authority
- Disadvantages of working with an asset carrier with brokerage authority
- The cost of working with an asset carrier with brokerage authority
- Choosing an asset carrier with brokerage authority: What to consider
Should You Use Multiple Freight Carriers in One Region?
- How many transportation options should shippers have for sourcing capacity out of one area?
- What are the advantages of using more than one provider for capacity from one location?
- What are the disadvantages of using more than one provider from one location?
- How many providers should shippers solicit for a shipment out of an area?
- What should shippers consider when choosing trucking companies to add to their network?
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Trucking Industry Outlook November 2025: What Shippers Must Know
November is a bridge between seasons — and an on-ramp to holiday shipping pressures. For shippers, it’s a month of tight capacity, shifting demand, and scheduling complexity.
How Does a Trucking Company Determine Your Shipment’s Route?
It’s your job to understand the intricate details of the trucking marketplace: its cycles and the factors influencing freight rates. This knowledge helps you adjust your logistics strategy, better collaborate with external stakeholders (like carriers) and explain the cost of shipping to your boss.
The Pros and Cons of Shipping Freight Using a Small Trucking Company
Your freight making it to its destination on time hinges on decisions you made well before it ever loaded. Prime among these decisions is which transportation provider(s) you trust to handle your freight needs.
The Pros and Cons of Shipping Freight Using a Large Trucking Company
When it comes to choosing your transportation provider, there’s certainly no shortage of options. Sure, depending on your location(s), commodity type(s), company goals and the time of year, your pool of viable providers may fluctuate — however slightly.
What Is the Right of First Refusal in Transportation?
As a freight shipper, you’re always running into transportation-industry-specific terms, jargon, and abbreviations. Even if you’ve been in the industry for decades, the constant barrage of lingo can be..
Trucking Industry Outlook November 2025: What Shippers Must Know
November is a bridge between seasons — and an on-ramp to holiday shipping pressures. For shippers, it’s a month of tight capacity, shifting demand, and scheduling complexity.
How Does a Trucking Company Determine Your Shipment’s Route?
It’s your job to understand the intricate details of the trucking marketplace: its cycles and the factors influencing freight rates. This knowledge helps you adjust your logistics strategy, better collaborate..
The Pros and Cons of Shipping Freight Using a Small Trucking Company
Your freight making it to its destination on time hinges on decisions you made well before it ever loaded. Prime among these decisions is which transportation provider(s) you trust to handle your freight..
The Pros and Cons of Shipping Freight Using a Large Trucking Company
When it comes to choosing your transportation provider, there’s certainly no shortage of options. Sure, depending on your location(s), commodity type(s), company goals and the time of year, your pool of viable..
