How 2025 NMFC Density-Based Changes Will Reshape LTL Shipping Costs

As we enter 2025, a major challenge confronting the industry is the likelihood of shifting freight trends due to the relocation of production and manufacturing facilities worldwide, as companies strive to enhance cost-efficiency, manufacturing speed, and inventory management. Geopolitical conflicts and policy shifts, particularly the looming threats of elevated tariffs, are generating unpredictability and complicating the strategies of supply chain experts across various sectors.

Shippers are evaluating how these factors might affect their logistics and contemplating whether to boost onshore inventory levels in anticipation of possible disruptions. Such developments could lead to abrupt changes in shipping behaviors, disrupting normal seasonal patterns and influencing capacity and pricing from transportation providers.

In the less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping segment, the most prominent upcoming challenge is the expected simplification to the NMFC classification system as more than 40% of commodities will have their class determined by …

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