Domestic freight demand is not only strong, it is growing stronger.
Yet this statement, supported by data from SONAR, U.S. trade agencies and numerous industry observers, rings false to many carriers operating in the market today.
It might even call to mind the recent brow-beating and haranguing that sought to convince Americans — for whom, in the two years since 2021, the price of groceries had risen 20% — that their economic fears were unjustified, that they were simply trapped in a “vibecession” of their own making.
