# Freight Market Report, Q2 2026: Rates by Equipment Type

Source: https://truxx.ai/blog/freight-market-report-q2-2026
Published: 2026-07-17 · Category: Insights · 6 min read

> Box truck rates hit $3.09/mi after seven straight quarters of gains. Dry van looks like it's up 57% — it isn't. What 6,422 booked loads say about the market this quarter, and the one rule that decides whether any per-mile rate means anything.

## Summary

> Booked-load rates by equipment type on the Truxx.AI dispatch network for 2026-Q2, computed from 6,422 delivered loads. Box truck — the largest sample at 2,965 loads — averaged $3.09/mi mileage-weighted ($1,224 per load at 396 average loaded miles), +8.3% quarter over quarter.

## 2026-Q2 rates by equipment type

| Equipment | Loads | Avg RPM (mileage-weighted) | Avg revenue per load | Avg loaded miles | QoQ | YoY |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Box Truck | 2,965 | $3.09/mi | $1,224 | 396 | +8.3% | +27.1% |
| Sprinter | 1,753 | $1.20/mi | $895 | 749 | +8.4% | +6.8% |
| Cargo Van | 771 | $1.31/mi | $691 | 526 | +6.8% | +5.8% |
| Dry Van | 641 | $3.35/mi | $1,533 | 458 | +18.4% | +56.7% |
| Flatbed | 133 | $3.48/mi | $2,417 | 694 | +19.8% | +28.1% |
| Hotshot | 91 | $3.81/mi | $1,233 | 324 | +61.5% | +61.4% |
| Step Deck * | 37 | $3.43/mi | $2,687 | 783 | +13.0% | +18.0% |
| Reefer * | 31 | $4.32/mi | $1,565 | 362 | +18.3% | +94.1% |

\* Fewer than 50 loads — published for completeness, too thin to read a trend into.

## How to read these numbers

Rate per mile falls as haul length rises, so a high per-mile figure usually indicates short freight rather than strong pricing. Always read the average-loaded-miles column alongside the rate, and compare per-mile rates only within a similar haul length.

## Important caveats before citing

- **This is a network index, not a national one.** Box trucks, sprinters, and cargo vans make up the large majority of Truxx.AI volume. The mix runs shorter and prices higher per mile than the national truckload market. Absolute levels will not match DAT or Truckstop benchmarks and are not intended to.
- **Do not cite the dry van year-over-year figure as a market move.** Dry van has fallen from roughly 36% of network volume in 2021 to about 10%, and its average haul shortened materially. The apparent increase reflects a change in the composition of that book — shedding longer-haul truckload while retaining short, expedited freight — not a repricing of the dry van market. National dry van spot rates did not rise by a comparable amount.
- **Hotshot's quarterly change is likewise a haul-length artifact**, with average distance collapsing roughly a third over the quarter on a small sample.
- **Box truck is the most credible trend in this dataset**, because its average trip length stayed essentially flat across the run while its rate rose — the signature of genuine pricing power rather than mix shift.
- Equipment marked with an asterisk, and any equipment absent from the table, lacks the sample size to support a claim.

## Methodology

Figures are computed from booked loads on the Truxx.AI dispatch network: status delivered, US origin and destination, at least 25 loaded miles, and rate per mile between $0.50 and $30 to exclude micro-moves and data-entry errors. Only closed quarters are published, and a published quarter is immutable. Lane-level cuts aggregate a trailing four-quarter window so thin slices stay credible. Full methodology: https://truxx.ai/insights/methodology

Attribution: free to cite and quote with attribution and a link back to the source page. Aggregate network data © Truxx.AI. Informational only; not a forecast, offer, or guarantee.

Full article with interactive tables: https://truxx.ai/blog/freight-market-report-q2-2026

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