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This report examines the current state of the freight market – the emerging recovery, key metrics like spot rates and load-to-truck ratios, ongoing challenges with costs and capacity, and strategies truckers are using to weather the storm. We’ll also review economic indicators (consumer spending, housing, inflation) that are shaping freight demand as drivers plan for the rest of 2025.

Trucking is generally a lawful profession, but there have been numerous documented cases of truck drivers involved in violent crimes. In fact, the FBI has identified a disturbing pattern of homicides linked to the trucking industry. Since 2004, the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative has catalogued over 750 murder victims found along U.S. highways and nearly 450 potential suspects – many of them long-haul truck drivers. These crimes often involve victims such as hitchhikers or sex workers at truck stops, who are picked up, murdered, and dumped far from the crime scene. While the vast majority of truckers are law-abiding, the FBI notes that a small subset have exploited the mobility of trucking to become serial predators – a trend law enforcement can no longer ignore.