Both OTVI and STVI are useful indicators of overall freight demand, and directionally, they show the same thing – that freight demand is meaningfully lower year over year. The main difference is magnitude. OTVI and STVI are down 11% year over year and 3% year over year, respectively.STVI is a dataset that is more heavily weighted toward consumer packaged goods, food, and shorter-haul traffic, which are relatively stable sectors of freight demand when compared to automotive and industrial. Therefore, the STV ...

With a rebound in the freight market expected to have commenced long before the end of 2025, the inevitable question among analysts and observers is: what happened? That was the focus of the November State of Freight webinar Tuesday, with FreightWaves’ strategic analyst John Paul Hampstead joining SONAR’s head of freight market intelligence Zach Strickland to take up the issue. FreightWaves and SONAR CEO Craig Fuller sat out the November webinar, with Hampstead taking his place. One of the culprits was i ...