Transportation & Commercial Vehicle Databases
Structured freight, economic, truckload, and LTL data resources for market analysis and planning decisions.
ACT databases give analysts, finance teams, strategy groups, and market intelligence professionals access to regularly updated transportation and economic data. Use these resources to track historical trends, monitor current market conditions, support internal models, validate assumptions, and connect freight, carrier, and economic signals to planning decisions.
Explore ACT DatabasesData resources built for deeper analysis
Forecasts and reports help explain market direction. Databases help teams work directly with the underlying indicators. ACT’s database products are designed for customers who need structured, recurring market data they can use in internal models, dashboards, executive reporting, research, and planning workflows.
Freight Database
The ACT Freight Database is a monthly updated data resource covering key historical freight volume and pricing indicators across truckload, LTL, rail, air cargo, and port activity.
Use the database to support freight market analysis, internal modeling, dashboard development, and planning assumptions across transportation modes.
The Freight Database includes:
- Weekly rail volumes by railroad and AAR category back to 2000
- Monthly LTL tonnage for public carriers since 2007
- Monthly container import and export activity from the top 12 North American ports
- Monthly truckload spot and contract market data for dry van, refrigerated, and flatbed markets since 2009
- DAT spot volume indexes for dry van, refrigerated, flatbed, and ACT aggregate views
- LTL and intermodal Producer Price Indexes sourced from BLS
- Definitions explaining the included freight database datasets
The Freight Database also supports ACT’s Freight & Transportation Forecast, making it a useful companion resource for teams that need both historical data and forward-looking freight market intelligence.
Publicly Traded Truckload Carriers Database
The Publicly Traded Truckload Carrier Database is published quarterly and reviews quarterly and annual financial and operating information for publicly traded truckload carriers, as reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The database helps customers monitor carrier profitability, operating performance, fleet behavior, pricing conditions, and market-cycle health across the truckload sector.
The database includes:
- Quarterly and annual financial information
- Operating statistics where reported
- Segment-level detail when carriers report multiple business segments
- Derived or modeled data points where necessary and appropriate
- Comparative views designed to support consistent carrier analysis
Use this database to support carrier financial analysis, freight-cycle monitoring, investment research, credit analysis, and transportation market modeling.
Publicly Traded Less-than-Truckload Carriers Database
The Publicly Traded LTL Carrier Database is published quarterly and reviews quarterly and annual financial and operating information for publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers, as reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The database helps customers track LTL carrier performance, pricing discipline, operating conditions, shipment trends, and segment-level market health.
The database includes:
- Quarterly and annual financial information
- Operating statistics where reported
- Segment-level detail when carriers report multiple business segments
- Derived or modeled data points where necessary and appropriate
- Comparative views designed to support consistent LTL carrier analysis
Use this database to support LTL market analysis, investment research, carrier benchmarking, credit analysis, and transportation planning assumptions.
Economic Database
The ACT Economic Database provides a structured view of U.S. economic indicators that influence freight demand, commercial vehicle markets, equipment cycles, and transportation planning assumptions.
The database includes more than 100 economic statistics, with monthly and quarterly data charts designed to help customers evaluate broader economic conditions and connect those signals to transportation market performance.
The Economic Database includes:
- More than 100 U.S. economic indicators
- Monthly and quarterly data charts
- Updates released multiple times each month as new data becomes available
- Month-over-month, quarter-over-quarter, and year-over-year comparisons
- Email notifications when new data releases are available
Use this database to support economic analysis, freight demand assumptions, commercial vehicle market planning, executive reporting, and internal forecasting models.
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Questions about the right database for your team?
ACT can help you identify the database, digest, forecast, report, or analyst perspective that fits your planning needs — whether you are tracking freight conditions, carrier performance, economic indicators, or commercial vehicle market signals.