Mobile, Alabama, is a mid-sized market that is seeing a continual trend of tightening capacity as outbound tender rejections rise 1.91% week over week to 9.87%.
A less than 2% increase isn’t known for causing capacity constraints, but the 6.77% decrease in outbound tender volumes has been a driving factor of the capacity crunch.
When outbound tender volumes fall at a faster rate than rejections, that leads to the crunch and can create an inflationary spot market. The spot market isn’t likely to see rates shooting up significantly unless this trend stays around through the next week, then spot rates will start rising more than a few cents per mile.
