Now is the time for shippers to run or rerun their annual RFPs as spot market rates continue to fall toward or below contract rates.
“Freight volumes typically begin to trend upward in the spring compared to the winter, but that’s something that we haven’t seen this year,” said Michael Colin, founder and CEO of MVMNT.
Colin suggests that declining freight volumes and the record volume of new truck orders over the past year may partly explain why spot rates have plummeted to around $3 per mile...
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