FTL Freight Trends In 2025: What They Mean For Your Shipping Strategy
If shipping is your game and you haven’t looked at your FTL freigh t strategy lately, 2025 is knocking with a few surprising visitors. While the markets are yet to get into an absolute chaotic mode, there's enough shifting in costs, capacity, and consumer behavior to at least get a supply chain manager thinking. Full truckload shipping, another name for FTL freight, is undergoing some serious realignment this year, so shippers who are still operating off last year's playbook may want to get a fresh sheet. Let’s break it down. Shorter Hauls, Higher Stakes Shipping lanes are getting shorter. Blame regional warehousing, lightning-fast e-commerce fulfillment, or just the fact that a customer expects a package faster than they can say "tracking number." But one thing stands: shorter lanes mean tighter delivery time and less room for error. This is where an effective FTL transport strategy matters. Shippers are now increasingly trusting regional carriers throug...