Rail strike threat may have goosed truckload demand

Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index – Ontario, Outbound Loaded Domestic Container Volumes – Los Angeles SONAR: OTVI.ONT, ORAILDOML.LAX

Outbound tender volumes — shipper requests for truckload capacity — jumped 16% over the average level of August this past week out of the Ontario market in Southern California. Domestic rail container volumes were down roughly 2% at the end of the week out of Los Angeles. While difficult to tie together perfectly, this could be an illustration of how...

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