What content is included in the FTR Shippers Update - Standard?
Delivered monthly, the Shippers Update - Standard is the perfect guide for understanding the current environment across all ground modes of transportation.
Included in the Service — Freight Intelligence Subscription:
- Monthly Report
- Up to 5 user seats/logins
- State of Freight Webinars
- Virtual and Annual Conference discounts
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- Rate Outlook
- Total Truckload, LTL, Railroad, Intermodal
- Shipping Snapshot
- Shippers Conditions Index
- Shipping Cost Outlook (Admin/ service, inventory, warehouse, transport)
- Freight Overview
- US: truck loadings, railcar loadings, US water traffic, air freight
- Shipping Costs Overview
- Fuel outlook
- Truckload costs outlook, (fuel, margin, equipment, overhead, labor)
- Rail costs outlook (fuel, margin, materials, equipment, overhead, labor)
- Trucking Environment
- Active truck utilization, Truck loading index, truck loadings by trailer type, rate outlook: Total Truckload
- Trucking Rates
- Truckload (TL) Dry Van, TL Reefer, TL Flatbed, TL Tank, TL Dump, Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)
- Rail Intermodal Environment (Commentary + Visuals)
- Total Intermodal Revenue Moves, North American (NA) Intermodal Revenue Moves, NA Intermodal Outlook, Intermodal Rate Outlook, Intermodal Train Speed (4-Week Avg.)
- Rail Carload Environment (commentary + visuals)
- Railcar capacity utilization, US rail carloads, avg. train speed ( 4 week avg.), rate outlook
- Rail Metrics & Freight Outlook
- train speed, cars online, swell time, coal carloads, agriculture carloads, chemical carloads, metallic ores & metals
- Economic Outlook (commentary + visuals)
- Economic forecast summary, consumer expenditures, industrial production, housing starts
- Current Economic Environment
- Business & Economic Environment, unemployment rate, retail sales, ISM Manufacturing Index, Inventory/sales ratio
- Commentary Section
- Rate Outlook