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Carriers Roughed Up As Shippers, Brokers Search For Freight Market Bottom

Jan 16, 2019 at 10:07 AM CST

In the trucking industry, it's a commonly repeated adage that "the shippers are the last to know" when it comes to freight market conditions. According to brokers we spoke to this week, shippers have finally realized how to take advantage of unusually loose trucking capacity, and they're trying to crash rates.