Connect the market signals that shape your next transportation decision.
ACT Research delivers forward-looking intelligence and analyst interpretation across freight, equipment, and commercial vehicle markets so your team can plan, price, budget, invest, and act with confidence.
Whether you are planning freight budgets, evaluating equipment demand, managing residual risk, preparing production assumptions, or watching the next market turn, ACT helps you understand the full cycle behind the decision.
Four decades of clarity for an industry that never stops moving.
For 40 years, ACT Research has helped transportation and commercial vehicle leaders understand market change before it becomes obvious. From deregulation to decarbonization, from freight cycles to equipment demand, ACT connects the signals that shape planning decisions.
We do more than deliver data. We help explain what changed, why it matters, what it connects to, and what decision it should inform.
Turn freight and equipment market intelligence into planning confidence.
Forecasts & Market Data
Access forward-looking forecasts and historical market data across commercial vehicles, trailers, freight, transportation, powertrain, and used equipment markets. ACT helps you understand where the market is headed so your team can prepare plans, budgets, production assumptions, and investment decisions with greater confidence.
Analysis & Insights
Data tells you what changed. ACT helps explain what it means.
Our analysts connect freight demand, rates, capacity, commercial vehicle demand, used equipment values, trailer markets, and regulatory forces into a clearer view of the transportation cycle. With deep industry experience and transparent market perspective, ACT helps you connect the dots before your next planning decision.
Consulting, Projects
When your market question does not fit a standard report, ACT can help you build a clearer view.
From technology and TCO analysis to fleet utilization, used truck pricing, market sizing, and custom forecasting, our expert team supports specialized projects that help you evaluate risk, test assumptions, and make better decisions.
Public Speaking Engagements
Bring ACT’s market perspective to your next board meeting, executive session, conference, industry event, or investor discussion.
Our analysts help audiences understand the freight, equipment, and commercial vehicle signals shaping the market — and what those signals may mean for planning, strategy, and risk.
Choose the market intelligence your next decision depends on.
ACT works directly with industry sources and applies decades of analyst expertise to help customers understand both current market conditions and future market direction. Whether you need forecasts, monthly market indicators, or executive-level summaries, ACT helps turn market movement into decision-ready intelligence.
Forecast Reports
See where freight, equipment, and commercial vehicle markets are headed. ACT forecast reports help teams evaluate market direction, test planning assumptions, and prepare for changes in demand, capacity, production, powertrain, and used equipment cycles.
State of the Industry Reports
Track the monthly market indicators that shape commercial vehicle and equipment decisions. ACT’s State of the Industry Reports provide current market data and historical context to help customers monitor demand, production, inventory, orders, and other key signals across the cycle.
Executive Digest Reports
Get a concise executive view of the transportation, trucking, and commercial vehicle dealer markets. ACT Digest Reports help leaders stay informed on the market signals, trends, and planning implications that matter most.
Market intelligence tailored to the decisions you make.
Shippers, brokers, carriers, fleets, manufacturers, dealers, leasing firms, and investors use ACT intelligence in different ways — but they all need a clearer view of where the market is headed.
Explore solutions by role to see how ACT helps your team plan budgets, price freight, evaluate equipment demand, manage residual risk, prepare production assumptions, and make more confident market decisions.
