Trucks are an essential mode of transportation for the fruit and vegetable industry, which require fast and efficient movements of perishable commodities. This page provides a dashboard to quickly and easily gauge the refrigerated truck market. The charts below, and their source datasets, cover truck rates from origin markets to 10 major destination markets, truck availability by region, and shipment volumes for specific origins and commodities.

Check back often! Data are updated weekly using raw data provided by USDA/AMS/Market News/Specialty Crops.

The chart below shows weekly average truck rates over the past year. The rates are average over region and commodity. Regions are derived from the reporting districts in the rate and volume datasets. There are nine regional crop origination markets covered: Arizona, California, Florida, the Great Lakes (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), imports across the Mexico-Arizona border, imports across the Mexico-Texas border, New York, the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington) and the Southeast (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). Each of these categories can be used as filters in the charts to see average rates in specific slices of the data.

Truck availability data comes from USDA/AMS/Market News/Specialty Crops reports. Availability is generally described as shortage, slight shortage, adequate, slight surplus, or surplus, although some mixed descriptions exist. We code those descriptions on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 representing surplus availability and 5 representing a shortage. The charts below show coded availability over time and, using the latest week of data, by district.