Reefer Capacity Left the Market: What Food Shippers Can Still Control

Published September 2026. Market figures are as reported for the week ending September 11, 2026. Capacity, not demand, is what changed this year. In DAT’s reefer report for the week ending September 11, 2026, truck posts were 34.5 percent lower than a year ago. The national reefer load-to-truck ratio stood at 19.00 compared with 8.84...