● RADIOAdvertise
DVDOWNUNDERVOICESAustralia · New Zealand · World
Back to Business
Business

13 October 2026

Cass: TL linehaul rates up 10% in September, shipment counts remain positive

Downunder Voices Newsroom

Source reporting: FreightWaves

FacebookEmail
Cass: TL linehaul rates up 10% in September, shipment counts remain positive

Truckload linehaul rates surged again in September while shipment counts remained in positive territory, according to a monthly report from Cass Information Systems. Cass’ TL linehaul index, which tracks rates excluding fuel and accessorial surcharges, increased 10. 1% year over year, according to Tuesday data from the payments management company. The dataset was up 0. 6% from August to the highest absolute reading in four years.

About this report

Downunder Voices provides an independently written summary and community perspective based on information published by the original source. The original publisher remains responsible for its reporting.

Join our community

Follow Downunder Voices

Join thousands of readers following news and community stories from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Follow on FacebookSubmit your story

More from Business

View category
The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter LewisBusiness

13 October 2026

The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis

The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of progress. In presenting the future as a fait accompli, it poisons the civic well by dealing us out of the game. While the US clings on to its status as the oldest constitutional democracy, the unholy alliance between the tech overlords and the White House is creating its own AI reality untethered to the will of the people .

Guardian Australia PoliticsOriginal

Read Next

View latest