Week chart: Average Shipping Average – US Sonar: Oaloha.usa
The national average length of the Transport Index (Oaloha) in 2025 has worked in the lowest or closest time because the truck load market has lost a significant share of intercontinental movements towards Intermodal. It may also reflect wider changes in supply chain strategies. Oaloha rose about 522 miles in August but has improved to more than 571 miles since then. Now the question is whether the Truckload market is recovering a long share or whether this is a seasonal process in a longer process.
According to Sonar’s tender data, the average transportation area of the truck cargo market was about 8 % higher than last year last year in the latest data, average recovery from a 13 percent decline in August. However, a sharp drop in Oaloha in 2025 shows a sharp drop in the data set, which dates back to 2018.
The main driver of this decline has been a sharp decline in long distance demand.
By breaking the tender data into the mileage strips, the long distance segment (the loads of more than 800 miles moves) is the most deteriorating. The tweener band (Totvi), which contains 450 to 800 miles, is close to one second in which other groups are sequenced, respectively. The only exception is the shortest bandwidth (Cotvi) that measures loads below 100 miles and is the only issue that shows the growth of the year.
Short -term loads are typically tied to upstream and inside the warehouse as well as downstream distribution in stores and retailers’ realization centers.
On the contrary, longer loads compete directly with the transportation of international dishes, especially when tied to imports. Each large port of the United States has a nearby rail and makes it easier to transport for transportation to move the goods through RAI L-, especially when the speed is not very important.
Geopolitical uncertainty and business differences have changed more strategies. Many transportation is now entering the United States earlier than usual to prevent sudden disruption or tariffs. While this has increased the cost of inventory and warehousing prices, transporting it would prefer to be at risk of being inventory or attract intense tasks-such as 145 % tariffs now in Chinese imports.
The logistics index (LMI) shows that inventory and inventory costs increase with their fastest speed from the epidemic. Higher inventory shipping allows you to expand shipping needs, which helps keep the shipping rate down.
Railway is 15-30 % cheaper than transportation, but with trade: slower and vulnerability to congestion at touch points. During the epidemic, these bottlenecks severely restrict the performance of the rail and move its volume towards trucks.
Despite the creatures available this year, the emergency of internal movements has declined and demand is still smooth in many parts. The recent rise of long distances rather than seasonal structural appears, although it can still have short -term consequences in the fourth trimester, which increases retailers.
One time 800 miles takes about two full days of truck load capacity, compared to about a quarter of a day for a movement below 100 miles. If the long-term volume goes back, even temporarily, they can increase a sharp increase in point rates-continuous vulnerability of the truck market.
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