Shippers Update Conference Bundle

This bundle pairs two days at the FTR Transportation Conference with 12 months of our Shippers Update—the monthly market intelligence service built specifically for transportation and procurement teams that need to anticipate market changes before they impact costs.

📅 Sept 1-2, 2026 Freight Track Days

📍Crowne Plaza, Indianapolis Union Station

📊 12 Monthly Shippers Update Reports 

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Bundle Breakdown

Sept 1-2 - Indianapolis

FTR Conference Freight Track

  • Truck Freight Day (Sept. 1) — FTR's full truckload rate outlook, capacity forecast, and freight demand analysis for the next 12 months

  • Rail Freight Day (Sept. 2) — FTR’s rail freight outlook covering carload demand, intermodal trends, commodity forecasting, rail network performance, and the economic drivers shaping North American rail volumes

  • Exclusive FTR economic and freight forecasts not available anywhere else — the upstream signals that drive the rate environment your procurement team operates in

  • Direct access to FTR's chief analysts, carrier executives, and freight market leaders — the conversations that shape how sophisticated shippers build strategy

  • Multimodal market context: truckload, rail, and intermodal conditions presented together so you can make informed modal mix decisions, not just reactive ones
  • Regulatory and policy briefings covering what's coming — capacity-impacting rules, emissions compliance timelines, and the driver and equipment dynamics that affect your carrier base
  • Full session materials and presentation downloads for your procurement, logistics, and finance teams
  • Signature networking events including Casino Night — the informal conversations with carriers and analysts that often matter as much as the sessions
12 Issues - Updated Monthly

Shippers Update Subscription

  • Monthly truckload rate outlooks — forward-looking forecasts by lane and market condition, not trailing averages
  • Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) — FTR's proprietary indicator of whether the environment favors shippers or carriers, so you can time bids and contract renewals with precision instead of instinct
  • Active Truck Utilization (ATU) — the leading capacity indicator that signals when tightening or loosening is coming before it shows up in your rates
  • Rail and intermodal intelligence — coverage across modes so your modal mix decisions are grounded in forward-looking data across your full procurement portfolio
  • Macroeconomic context translated directly into transportation implications — the GDP, industrial production, and consumer demand signals that drive freight volumes, explained in terms your planning team can act on
  • Monthly client-only webinar with direct Q&A access to FTR analysts — your team's standing opportunity to pressure-test assumptions and ask the questions that don't have public answers
  • Up to 5 user licenses — procurement, logistics, finance, and supply chain leadership all working from the same intelligence

40 years

 of freight and equipment forecasting in the Commercial Vehicle and Trailer space

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FTR's proprietary forecasting system connects macro-economic signals, freight demand fundamentals, and equipment market dynamics into a single integrated model. 

Trusted by the industry's leading OEMs, dealers, and suppliers

- from trailer builders to component manufacturers, the organizations that use FTR forecasts aren't treating them as a sanity check. They're building production schedules, inventory targets, and capital plans around them.

LOCK IN YOUR BUNDLE

Two options — both include full Freight Track access. The bundles add 12 months of the monthly intelligence service your procurement team needs to build and defend a transportation budget that holds.

FREIGHT TRACK + Shippers Update Standard Bundle

$500 + $1250/yr

  • Full conference access PLUS

  • Shippers Update Standard annual subscription

  • SCI and ATU forecasts

  • Live client-only webinars with FTR analysts

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FREIGHT TRACK + Shippers Update Premium Bundle

$500 + $2000/yr

  • Everything in Standard PLUS

  • Shippers Update Premium Annual Subscription

  • Monthly Excel file

  • State of Freight Insights

  • Annual Market Update Call

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What's the value to you?

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Build a transportation budget you can defend

When your CFO asks why your transportation line is 12% over plan, "the market moved" isn't an answer. FTR's forward-looking rate forecasts give you the independent, data-grounded basis to explain and anticipate your spend — before the variance shows up on a quarterly report.
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Negotiate from the market's reality, not your carrier's sales deck

Every carrier sitting across the table from you has data supporting their rate ask. The Shippers Update gives you FTR's independent view of where rates actually are, where they're heading, and whether the conditions favor you or them when you sit down.
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Time your bids to the market, not the calendar

The Shippers Conditions Index tells you whether the procurement environment is shifting in your favor or against you. Locking in contracts when capacity is loosening versus tightening can be worth millions in annual transportation spend — but only if you can see it coming.
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Make modal mix decisions on forward data, not trailing benchmarks

When truckload rates are rising and intermodal capacity is available, the shippers who shift first capture the savings. Monthly coverage across truck, rail, and intermodal means your modal strategy is always built on current intelligence, not last quarter's assumptions.
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Give finance the visibility they need to stop questioning your numbers

Quarterly and annual rate forecasts grounded in freight fundamentals — presented in the language of budget planning. When procurement and finance are working from the same independent source, the internal debate about transportation cost assumptions ends.
Derek Young has spent his career helping procurement and logistics leaders understand one thing: the shippers who consistently protect their transportation spend aren't the ones with the biggest networks or the most carriers — they're the ones with the clearest forward view of the market. Here's how he frames what this bundle was built for:

"Transportation is one of the most dynamic costs on your P&L — and it's one of the few where a forward-looking intelligence advantage directly translates to dollars. The Shippers Update gives your team the same independent view of rate direction, capacity conditions, and modal dynamics that the most sophisticated procurement organizations in the country use to build and defend their budgets. This bundle puts that intelligence together with two days at our conference — where you'll hear it directly from the analysts who built it."

Derek Young

VP of Sales & Marketing, FTR Transportation Intelligence

Email: dyoung@ftrintel.com
Call Now: (888) 988-1699, ext. 66

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