Breakthrough

Prior to the White House’s proclamation being issued, Dan Moyer, senior analyst, commercial vehicles, at freight transportation consultancy FTR, said that this development had rattled fleets, OEMs, and suppliers coping with weak demand, rising costs, and fragile supply chains.

Logistics Management (LM) Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers. Muenster provided Berman with an overview of trade and tariffs, the industrial economy, and Peak Season, among other topics. 

With a 4.7-cent increase, the national average, for the week of April 7, came in at $3.639, which was preceded by a 2.5-cent increase, to $3.592, for the week of March 31, and a 1.8-cent increase, for the week of March 24, to $3.567.

Green Bay, Wis.-based Breakthrough, a provider of fuel and freight solutions for shippers, issued “2025 State of Transportation Report.” A key focus of this report centered around what Breakthrough called an expected freight market flip, coupled with new governmental and economic headwinds that will shape shippers’ strategies over the next 12 months.

In this podcast, Breakthrough's Muenster addressed various topics related to the state of the freight economy, including: the freight economy; tariffs; manufacturing; capacity; inflation; demand patterns; and pricing and rates, among others.  

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In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers.

At a time when freight demand remains depressed, coupled with excess truckload capacity and pricing remaining firmly in shippers’ favor, one can point to any number of economic metrics to come up with opinions, or estimations, as to what is driving market conditions. To be clear, though, the metric leading that list still is very likely inflation, as it has been a major talking point in freight transportation and logistics circles for nearly two years, going back to when the...

The new “State of Transportation” report issued today by Green Bay, Wis.-based Breakthrough, a provider of fuel and freight solutions for shippers, addressed myriad components of freight transportation and logistics impacting shippers and carriers, including volatile weather, sustainability and emissions reduction, and over-the-road capacity, among others. 

Major U.S. container ports are entering a period of historically low cargo volumes as the holiday season winds down. However, attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea and continued delays at the Panama Canal may shake up this year’s usual winter lull.

There are a whole host of mixed economic messages, signals, and indicators, perhaps more so now than at any other time, especially over the past five years or so.

In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers.

Logistics Management (LM) Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers. Muenster provided Berman with an overview of the impact of the recently-issued third quarter GDP estimate and its impact on logistics and supply chain strategies.

Survey of transportation leaders finds most expect plenty of freight capacity.

The need for freight transportation and logistics stakeholders to reduce emissions, collaborate on mutually-beneficial contracts, and deal with fluctuating linehaul rates were among the key themes in the “2023 State of Transportation” study, which was issued today by Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough.