Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) / X

Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️

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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️

@FreightAlley

Freight affiliated media. Founder - FreightWaves: Freight market intelligence SONAR: High-frequency freight data Firecrown: enthusiast media esp. transport

Chattanooga, TN

Joined April 2009

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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
May 23
We spent an hour with trucking’s regulator. The most important thing to take away: the FMCSA is just getting started. The compliance crackdown has already created the hottest spot market in history. 40k non compliant drivers have been eliminated. There could be hundreds of
FreightWaves
@FreightWaves
May 22
Live with FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs | Freight Expectations
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 27, 2025
👀And so it begins...
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 20, 2025
I enthusiastically supported Trump's victory in the November election. I thought I was voting for pro-business policies and small, targeted, and incremental tariffs that would encourage the production of strategic industries to return to the Americas. I.e., what we got in the
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 26, 2025
Welcome to the hotel China, you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 18, 2025
Many truckers I've spoken with don't realize how quickly container volumes have collapsed. Starting in May, port freight out of California will be almost eliminated. Its going to be a bloodbath in dray, followed by intermodal, and then a collapse in I-20 & I-40 trucking.
Printer Mania
@TangerinerX
Apr 18, 2025
Replying to @Liquid_Bulk and @FreightAlley
May 2020 had 51 shipments blank sailings. Over 80 so far in April 2025. COVID will look like good times.
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Sep 7, 2025
Alan Greenspan used to track cardboard boxes and trucking volumes as a barometer of the US economy. Cardboard and package materials have dropped to 2015 levels. 1/
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Oct 9, 2025
An insurance executive told me that he expects new trucking and brokerage policies will forbid hiring non domiciled CDLs. “It’s all over.”
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 27, 2025
For the past 3 years, many trucking companies have been running at or below breakeven. But at least, there has been enough freight to generate cash flow to keep them alive. That won't be the case in the coming few weeks. There won't be enough freight to haul at any price. We
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 9, 2025
Trump just nuked Temu and Shein It will now cost $75 per postal item. On June 1, it will go to $150 per postal item.
Aaron Rubin
@aaronrubin
Apr 9, 2025
The White House just updated the 321 Executive Order, now items sent through International Postal Mail get a tariff of 90% or $75 per item. The transportation company chooses if it's 90% or $75, but it has to be the same for all their shipments. This is just for Postal Mail.
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Feb 16, 2023
Update: I bought my 16 yr old son a tiny e-comm biz on Microacquire. He and I spend about 8 hrs per wk working on biz together (after school/wknds). Purchase price: $10k on Jan 1, 2023 Revenue in 22: $6k Revenue YTD already: $6200 Profit YTD: $1400 Experience: Priceless
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 28, 2025
Oh Canada! The ships that were headed to Seattle are now moving to Vancouver.
Martyn 🇨🇦
@OleSuperSub
Apr 28, 2025
Replying to @FreightAlley
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 24, 2025
Import volumes will start drying up the first week of May. Companies tied to imports: port operators, truckers, warehouses, forwarders, and railroads will all struggle. Layoffs the following week. POTUS needs to declare victory by mid-next week, or we will be looking at a
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Oct 29, 2025
First thing you discover when you move to Texas is that it is not a low tax state.
Ethan Flynn
@ethanflynncpa
Oct 29, 2025
Why did Austin crash but Nashville didn’t? My guess is property tax.
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Apr 28, 2025
Apollo predicts a recession (and stagflation) coming to the US by June with mass layoffs in trucking and retail
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