Originally published at: When Retailers Move Their Supply Chains, Your Load Board Changes - Here Is What 250 Retail Executives Just Told You About Where Freight Is Heading - FreightWaves
Let’s start with something that sounds simple but changes everything about how you should read the freight market: retail is the engine that drives truckload freight. Not manufacturing alone. Not energy. Retail. When Americans buy things — clothes, furniture, electronics, appliances, home goods, groceries — those products move on trucks. Multiple times. From a factory…