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Auto-Import Port Drayage Rate Spikes

spot drayage (short-haul port-to-warehouse) rate quotes for chassis/container moves at major auto-import ports

Feed detail
Measures
spot drayage (short-haul port-to-warehouse) rate quotes for chassis/container moves at major auto-import ports
Source
FreightWaves SONAR public snippets / DAT freight public rate index samples
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Drayage rate spikes at auto-import ports (Baltimore, Brunswick GA) signal logistics bottlenecks that delay new-vehicle lot arrival
Maps to
Import OEM dealer inventory, freight logistics names (XPO, JBHT)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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