CHRW: Key trends for LTL shippers...

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By LoadstarEditorial

12/02/2025

CH ROBINSON’s Greg West writes:

The landscape for less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping has undergone significant shifts in capacity and costs, and more change lies ahead in 2025.

The closure of Yellow, which accounted for nearly 10% of the market’s capacity, reshaped the LTL network for the first time in over a decade. Now that the most strategic of their terminals have come back online under new owners, it added capacity back into a soft market and carriers are looking for more freight.

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