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The Load Letter is a daily freight industry briefing built specifically for freight brokers. Every episode cuts through the noise and delivers only what matters — spot rates, capacity shifts, shipper behavior, regulatory changes, and market intel — all framed around how it affects your brokerage. Hosted by a freight industry insider. Built for brokers who are too busy to read everything but can't afford to miss anything.
Unknown Host hosts The Load Letter, a general show with 58 episodes published.
Diesel hit $5.26 a gallon on $91.91 Brent while dry van and flatbed spot linehaul cooled for a second straight week, a fuel-up, rates-down squeeze that's about to reshape how your carriers answer the phone. We also cover
A supply-driven freight market is correcting fast in both directions, and brokers still quoting last month's numbers are already losing margin, so reprice volatile lanes daily. Inside: Tyson closing three more beef plant
Diesel is sitting above $5.26 a gallon after the U.S.-Iran peace deal collapsed with the Strait of Hormuz still contested, and your carriers want that cost passed straight to you. We also cover the insurance squeeze thin
DAT's Dean Croke says spot rates are climbing while volumes fall, a capacity-driven market that will test your contract book before Q4 bid season, so reprice your losing lanes now. We also cover diesel at $5.26 as tanker
Spot rates are climbing even as freight volumes fall, DAT's calling it a capacity-driven market where carriers are exiting faster than freight, so leverage has shifted to the trucks and it's time to protect your best cap
Contract truckload rates just posted the largest June-to-July jump on record for dry van and reefer, and they climbed while volumes fell, the clearest sign yet this is a capacity-driven market, not a demand one. We break
Brent's 5% Strait of Hormuz surge pushed diesel to $5.26 a gallon, and spring-bid fuel surcharges are already stale on every long-haul lane. We also cover a near-four-year-high LMI signaling still-tight dry van capacity,
Dry van spot is stuck at $2.38 because shippers are shifting long-haul freight to intermodal on a near-record rail-truck spread, but that freight is on a rubber band that snaps back to trucks the moment peak-season rail
New antidumping duties on Canadian and Mexican van trailers collide with four-decade-high demand, signaling tighter, pricier drop-and-hook capacity over the next two quarters. We also cover Daimler's 2029 U.S. assembly p
Washington just dropped antidumping duties on Canadian and Mexican van and reefer trailers, quietly raising your carriers' cost to add capacity, while U.S. diesel exports hit a record and keep the pump near $5.31. We bre
Summer freight is softening and van spot rates are sliding, but capacity is quietly leaving underneath, so this briefing walks brokers through holding rate discipline while flatbed still pays nearly 40% above last year.
Shippers moved less freight in Q2 but paid sharply more, and the culprit was tightening truck capacity, not fuel, signaling a capacity-led squeeze dressed up as a soft market. We break down Schneider's warning that drive
Oil fell nearly 5% overnight, and while diesel still sits at $5.13, relief is coming in the next 10-14 days, a quiet margin opportunity on spot freight if you don't hand it straight to carriers. We also cover Daimler shu
Oil tumbled nearly 7% over the weekend after U.S., Iran strikes paused, so diesel and your fuel surcharges are about to follow, adjust your surcharge math now before you overprice bids or hand back margin. Also inside: a
Knight-Swift and Trucking Info both point to the same trend: a supply-driven capacity crunch is set to accelerate starting in September, and brokers who lock in carrier relationships now will be the ones who benefit come
Brent crude jumped nearly $3 overnight on the Iran conflict, and brokers need to revisit fuel surcharges before carriers force the issue. Also in today's briefing: capacity-driven (not demand-driven) tightening means pri
Ten nights of strikes on Iran just pushed Brent above $90 a barrel, and diesel at $4.80 is still catching up, so fuel surcharge language needs updating now. We also break down new 50% Section 338 tariffs hitting Canadian
California reefer capacity tightened across six growing districts in a single week, already driving double-digit rate jumps in the Northeast, and brokers quoting last week's numbers are already behind. The Cass June data
The spring import surge is transitioning, LA posted its busiest June ever, but ocean rates are softening and a domestic freight hangover is building for import-heavy shippers. California reefer flipped tight across six d
Iran's threat to block energy exports sent Brent crude up sixty-three cents in a single session, and with diesel already at $4.58 and Q3 fuel costs projecting higher, brokers need to get in front of shipper FSC conversat
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