Paul P. rightly called attention to the fact that while most of the panelists on the 2025 Freight Market Outlook podcast episode agreed that 2025 will likely bring a ~15% YOY increase, this will vary notably region to region.
Link to the full episode is in the comments!
We publish monthly predictions for the next 12 months and I know this is a crazy exercise, but we still stick to it. We see rates go up between 14 and 15%, but we were huge disparity from region to region. And actually as we zoom in almost to lane level, even bigger disparity, dispersion and volatility. So I mean NE probably around 20%, whereas the West we see closer to 10%. But overall, I think we all agree around this number of about 1415%.
