Bloomberg Intelligence

With excess capacity and lower rates, the digital freight matching (DFM) market is keeping its eye on the ball as the segment ramps up to leverage AI to gain visibility and improve real-time monitoring capabilities.

Even though shippers are still benefiting from a low-rate environment, challenges are plentiful. Should demand levels head up and inventories continue to trend down, that could present a scenario that truckload carriers would welcome—and trigger a return to pricing power in tandem with tighter capacity.

The topic of recessions—both for the general United States economy and the freight economy—was a key theme in a webcast hosted earlier this month by Jeff Tucker, president of Haddonfield, N.J.-based Tucker Worldwide, the nation’s oldest freight brokerage, which featured Lee Klaskow, Senior Global Transportation & Logistics Analyst and Sector Head, for Bloomberg Intelligence, a division of Bloomberg LP.