Freight Spend, Shipments Soft Again In August

It's similar, and I suspect it started as that. One key difference is that during inflation peroids, the money supply is too high, so the money is actually worth less, consequently it takes more to purchase the same goods and services. The component costs go up, thus the product price goes up.

I think, and admittedly I usually lean towards the conspiracy theroy side, that they're seeing tremendous profits by throttling supply long past when they naturally reverted back to a more traditional marketplace.

I may not be explaining it correctly but basically what started out as a temporary market swing caused by several unexpected events is now being intentionally changed into the market norm. I think it's active, directed and no longer a response. Active in the sense that they stumbled onto a way to permanently attain higher profits.

I don't begrudge any business for doing it, I just think we need to accept that until trucking companies and drivers find a way to combat it, either by reducing driver and truck capacity so severely or they just flat out refuse to haul or through regulation that it drives the price of labor up and then consequently the price of freight up. None of which I forsee happening in the next several years.