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title: Will trucking see a turnaround in 2020?
description: "\"The weakness in spot market pricing for many transportation services, especially trucking, along with recent airfreight and railroad volume trends, heightens our concerns about the economy,\" Cass wrote in its October report released this month."
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# [Will trucking see a turnaround in 2020?](https://blog.aiag.org/will-trucking-see-a-turnaround-in-2020)

 Written by [Matt Leonard (Supply Chain Dive)](https://blog.aiag.org/author/matt-leonard-supply-chain-dive) | Dec 5, 2019 2:18:52 PM

Spot rates could rebound 4% to 6% in the second half of 2020 while contract rates could climb 2%, [DAT forecasted](http://www.dat.com/industry-trends/2020-freight-report) after a year of spot rates favoring shippers.

While truckload volumes hit a five-year high in October and spot rates were up 7.3% year-over-year, high capacity levels kept spot rates low for the month, according to DAT.

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