FTR Associates is the industry leader in freight transportation forecasting. Currently our principal source of business is forecasting U.S. freight by mode of transportation, NAFTA commercial vehicle sales and production, U.S. trailer factory shipments, N.A. railcar deliveries and U.S. rail carloadings originated, intermodal loadings originated and tractor/trailer loads originated.
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FTR forecasts that the sharply improved December reading will not be sustained in 2019, with readings falling back to mid-single digital positive readings in January and moving...
Stabilizing truckload rates and a short-lived run up in diesel prices were largely responsible for a continued deterioration in trucking conditions during October.
September Class 8 order activity was the 10th best month ever, but with most of 2018 hitting all time highs, was only the 5th highest monthly volume this year, FTR reports.
FTR says that although rates are still rising in the truckload sector, there are some signs of stability coming into the market for drivers, capacity and rates.
Preliminary North American Class 8 orders for July hit an all-time high of 52,250 units, just surpassing the previous record of 52,194 orders in March 2006.
"Fleets should begin placing substantial orders for 2019 beginning in September, a month earlier than normal," advises FTR vice president of commercial vehicles.
FTR, for the first time, presents their quarterly trailer forecast individually for dry van, reefer van, flatbed, liquid tank, dry tank, dump, low bed and “other” trailer types...
FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing November Class 8 truck net orders at 19,683 units, 14 percent below October and down three percent year-over-year.
