Freight, Equipment & Transportation Intelligence by Role
See the market signals that matter to your business — and understand what they mean for your next planning decision.
ACT Research helps transportation, freight, equipment, and commercial vehicle leaders connect market signals to better planning decisions.
Whether you are managing freight budgets, evaluating rate direction, planning fleet replacement, tracking equipment demand, assessing residual risk, or preparing production assumptions, ACT gives your team a clearer view of where the market is headed and what it means for your business.
Our intelligence combines forward-looking forecasts, market data, analyst interpretation, and decades of industry experience to help customers see the full cycle — not just isolated signals.
Find the market intelligence that fits your role.
Carrier, Fleet
Carriers, private fleets, and owner-operators use ACT intelligence to connect freight demand, rate direction, capacity, equipment availability, used truck values, and replacement timing.
ACT helps fleet leaders understand the market signals that shape pricing, utilization, equipment strategy, technology payback, and future capacity decisions.
Broker
Brokers use ACT intelligence to understand freight-cycle movement, spot and contract rate direction, carrier capacity, and equipment-market signals that may affect customer pricing and margin.
With ACT’s forward-looking market view, brokers can better advise customers, prepare for rate changes, and support more confident pricing and planning conversations.
Shipper
Shippers use ACT intelligence to plan transportation budgets, understand rate direction, evaluate capacity conditions, and prepare for freight-market shifts before they affect cost and service.
ACT helps transportation and procurement teams connect freight rates, carrier capacity, equipment supply, and market-cycle signals to stronger budgeting, bid timing, and negotiation decisions.
Manufacturer
Manufacturers use ACT intelligence to track commercial vehicle demand, production trends, order activity, backlog, inventory, competitive dynamics, and market-cycle movement.
ACT helps OEMs and suppliers build more defensible assumptions for production planning, demand visibility, market share analysis, and strategic decision-making.
Investor
Investors and finance teams use ACT intelligence to understand freight and equipment-cycle timing, assess market exposure, evaluate used equipment values, and support more informed models and investment decisions.
ACT provides forward-looking market context and analyst interpretation to help capital-market teams track risk, validate assumptions, and see where transportation markets may be headed.
Dealer, Leasing
Dealers, rental, and leasing firms use ACT intelligence to monitor equipment demand, used truck values, fleet utilization, replacement timing, and residual-risk signals.
ACT helps teams make more confident decisions about inventory, portfolio strategy, remarketing, lease assumptions, and fleet planning.
Don’t see your role?
Your planning question may still be one ACT can help answer.
Across more than 250 years of combined industry experience, our team has supported hundreds of use cases across freight, equipment, commercial vehicle, finance, supply chain, and transportation markets. If you are trying to understand what market signals mean for a business decision, ACT can help you find the right intelligence.
Trusted intelligence for transportation market decisions.
WSJ Economic Consensus Forecast
ACT Research contributes to the WSJ Economic Consensus Forecast, providing market analysis and short- and long-term forecasting perspective.
Blue Chip Economic Indicators
ACT Research is a contributor to Blue Chip Economic Indicators and was awarded the 2019 Lawrence R. Klein Award for the most accurate economic forecast over a four-year period.
DAT Freight & Analytics Partnership
DAT Freight & Analytics and ACT Research partner to bring freight market participants a stronger view of rate direction and market-cycle movement. ACT forecasts DAT spot and contract rates for dry van, refrigerated, and flatbed trailers.
Cass Information Systems Partnership
ACT Research and Cass Information Systems partner to provide freight market perspective on rates, volumes, and planning implications for the transportation market.
Historical & Current Market Data
Since 1986, North American OEMs have provided key market indicator data directly to ACT Research. ACT’s State of the Industry reports help customers monitor current market conditions, evaluate historical context, and understand the commercial vehicle signals shaping planning decisions.
Need help finding the right market intelligence for your next decision?
Whether you are planning budgets, pricing freight, evaluating equipment demand, managing residual risk, or preparing market assumptions, ACT can help you identify the reports, forecasts, and analyst perspective that fit your business.