Understanding the 2020 trucking market and what's ahead in 2021

Understanding the 2020 trucking market and what’s ahead in 2021

If you would have asked me what the trucking market at the end of 2020 would look like in March or April, my answer would have been something like this:

Clearly not optimistic. And I would have been wrong. Like all things in 2020, the market was unpredictable. The shape of recovery has been compared with almost every letter in the alphabet, but we roll out of 2020 with headlines like:

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. To make sense of it all, I connected with Kenny Vieth, president and senior analyst at ACT Research, for the post-2020 market analysis and ask him to gaze into his crystal ball to see what’s in store for 2021. Watch the video above for all of the details.

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