Fuel, Friction and the Road Ahead: April 2026 The State of Freight White Paper
Julie Van de Kamp
The April 2026 State of Freight webinar delivered a clear consensus from FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller and SONAR’s Head of Freight Market Intelligence Zach Strickland: the freight recession is over....
SONAR has partnered with Trains to produce a Monthly Rail Report webinar. If you’d like to download a white paper recapping April’s webinar with. key take aways and insights, click...
SONAR and Transfix hosted a webinar introducing the SONAR and Transfix partnership and explaining the value of both platforms working together–from market intelligence to operational pricing. You can watch the...
A Market Repricing: How Demand, Regulation, and Geopolitics Are Reshaping Truckload Economics Three converging forces are tightening capacity, resetting rates, and transferring pricing power back to carriers — SONAR data...
The Industrial Heartland Leads the Charge: SONAR Data Reveals a Sustainable, Capacity-Driven Market Tightening
Julie Van de Kamp
Key Insights and Take-Aways from The State of Freight February 2026 A significant and sustainable strengthening of the freight market is underway, driven not by a surge in demand, but...
The State of Freight White Paper: January 2026 Mapping the 2026 Freight Landscape The freight market landscape entering 2026 is defined by a significant tightening that is holding firm, a...
December 2025 The State of Freight: A Look Back at 2025
Julie Van de Kamp
The 2025 holiday peak season has proven to be exceptionally volatile, characterized by spiking spot rates and a sharp increase in tender rejections. This “peaky” season is occurring despite a...
Case Study: Household Products Shipper Improves OTIF and Cuts Costs During National Retail Promotion
Julie Van de Kamp
Download the attached white paper describing how a CPG shipper used SONAR to improve its processes for forecasting, routing guide strategy, daily execution and post-promotion analysis resulting in significant and...
The November State of Freight webinar detailed a market characterized by a significant downturn in demand, yet a subtle and persistent tightening of capacity. This dynamic is creating a complex...
FreightWaves’ Carrier Rate Report — sponsored by Trimble — provides a review of the previous quarter and a forecast for the coming months. Featuring responses from a carrier survey alongside SONAR data,...
The Shipper Rate Report — presented in partnership with Trimble — is a quarterly publication using SONAR datasets to create the most in-depth rate and demand outlook for shippers. The insights within this paper...
Discussions from F3: The Future of Freight Festival highlight three disruptive shifts transforming logistics: AI and FreightTech innovations, geopolitical shifts affecting freight markets, and evolving workforce dynamics. Analysis of the...
