this article will help you understand what is happening as Yellow is just the first of many to come. rate rejects are at an all-time low which means nobody is rejecting a load even if it means they lose money. Most trucking firms has loads of cash on hand from high post-covid load costs coupled with low price of diesel but many new companies opened up to capitalize on this same opportunity. Since the big boys had tons of cash they thought they would withstand low rejection rates and kick these new kids out of the business but all that cash is now gone and they can no longer keep taking loads as they're losing money.
the stock boomed after the bankruptcy declaration but take a look at the top 2 shareholders. #1 is a hedge fund manager who own 43% of the company and bought 9M additional shares last Monday followed by the, ahemm, US Treasury Department (?) which have 31%. very strange
It has been a year since I wrote “Why I believe a freight recession is imminent.”
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