Knight-Swift – any sign of the longed-for US freight inflection?
‘Kind of a grind or just a slow progression’
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Most shippers expect a degree of normalisation this year, with stock levels stabilising, according to Morgan Stanley’s Freight Pulse for April.
Nearly 75% of shippers polled expect inventories to normalise, with nearly 50% predicting this in the second half.
Other numbers, however, are less encouraging. The American Trucking Association’s (ATA) monthly index fell 5.4% in March, the largest monthly drop since April 2020, at the start of the pandemic. The scope of the decline was sobering.
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