The 3PL Market Report-Q2 2025 Market Insights, which was issued this week by the Alexandria, Va.-based Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), pointed to some signs of freight market optimism on a few different fronts. The report was prepared for TIA by Donald Broughton, Managing Partner at Broughton Capital LLC. In an interview, TIA President & CEO Chris Burroughs told LM that these numbers could serve as a harbinger of the end of an ongoing negative downturn in freight activity, going back at least the last 12 quarters. There are also some triggers that can certainty continue to increase and lead us towards more recovery in the freight market. Freight is going to have to continue be going back and forth between countries.