Week chart: Exit rejection index – Los Angeles, Chicago SONAR:: Otri.lax, otri.chi
Truck carriers reject just over one of every 100 cargo offered from the Los Angeles area, at the same time rejecting three of every 50 cargoes originating on the Chicago market. This indicates a significant shift in the priority of the carrier, which began in the third quarter of last year. Why does this happen and what does this mean while the industry is moving into what many expect to be a much more unstable transportation environment in 2025?
The output index of rejection (Otri) It measures the percentage of loads that the carriers decline through the electronic requirements of their customers. On the market in Los Angeles, Otri is close to the record lowest lowest, falling below 2% for the first time since April 2023. This indicates that carriers are easily accessible and willing to cover loads for customers with existing long -term rate contracts.
At that time last year, Los Angeles Otri was 2.62%. Although this may seem insignificant for the occasional observer, the trend opposes the wider US truck market – especially in the main eastern markets like Chicago.
National Otri at the end of February 2024. It was 3.99%. From February 27, 2025. It increased to 5.38%. The difference between these two shakes of figures is not huge in terms of operational discomfort for transport managers, but it is a big change when viewed in the last three years.
The ratios rates in Los Angeles are close to the national average for most of the last two years. Los Angeles’s markets tend to tend to lower in January and February, but for the last two months they have recorded a much stronger seasonal move than we have seen in the recent past.
The Chicago market went in the opposite direction, average above national value at the beginning of the year.
Winter time was a significant factor this year, because it was in January 2024. Extremely low temperatures make truck surgery more challenging, while snow and ice in areas that lack infrastructure to treat them to the conditions of the average than the US average in the Eastern Half of the US
This year seems to be an excessive version of 2024. Carriers seem to favor the West Coast, but only time does not explain completely why they would leave their networks an unbalanced longer period.
The prices of output loads from southern California have been faced with much greater pressure on growth in the last year, resulting in higher contracts and consistently elevated spot in rates.
According to Sonarski trac Providers, a spot from Los Angeles to Seattles increase by 10% compared to the year, while contracting rates increased by about 2%. The price of the price in Chicago was much unstable, but are currently more than 30% higher than they were at this time last year.
