Speakers at Inland26 dived deep into the operational, pricing, and underlying economic conditions influencing freight markets, from the seemingly unconstrained growth of cargo theft and fraud schemes, to the impact AI will have on service providers’ cost to serve, to the impact on supply from regulatory restrictions on the US driver pool.

Specific topics to be discussed include:

  • The economic outlook for North American freight demand

  • Cross-border logistics between the US, Canada and Mexico

  • The impact of tariffs, especially within North America

  • Strategies to counter cargo theft and fraud

  • Why brokers remain a key tool in shippers’ arsenal

  • The extent of intermodal volume growth in 2027

  • Truckload and LTL capacity, service and pricing

  • How shippers are using dedicated and private fleets

  • Whether shippers need to be directly investing in AI