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Spot Rates Split as Tender Rejections Hold Above 13%

Source
FreightWaves
Source link
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spot-rates-split-as-tender-rejections-hold-above-13
Published
2026-08-13 17:23:24
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-14 00:29:57
Category
Freight, Shipping & Logistics
Geography
Global, US
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

<p>Tender rejections are stuck near 13.5%, still far above a balanced freight market — but spot rates and volumes are starting to tell a more complicated story. In this SONAR update, we break down why truckload demand softened faster than expected, how intermodal is taking share from long-haul truckload, why short-haul freight still looks firm, [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spot-rates-split-as-tender-rejections-hold-above-13">Spot Rates Split as Tender Rejections Hold Above 13%</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com">FreightWaves</a>.</p>

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 31.6/100 — evaluated 2026-08-14 00:29:57
Passed on: logistics_freight_transport, price_availability_leadtime_demand, geographic_exposure (score 31.6/100, threshold 20.0).
  • logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "freight"
  • price_availability_leadtime_demand (weight 10) — matched on "demand"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "2 linked geographies"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
2 · Moderate (20.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (31.5/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Partial
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Moderate (20.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only
  • Only source-level entity metadata was available.
  • Only source-level geography metadata was available.
  • Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-14 00:29:57.