Bloomberg published an alarmist piece yesterday with the misleading headline: “Billboard Ad Sales Dive 40% With Americans Staying Off the Road.” This story should have been published in April, not now. This is old news. The industry was hit hard in March and April but driving traffic and roadside bulletin […]
Inrix reports that US travel returned to normal in the US National Traffic Volume Synopsis #15 for June 20-26, 2020. Some other highlights. Nationwide US passenger traffic was 100% of pre-covid levels for the week ended June 26. Long hall ruck travel was 99% of normal Local fleet travel was […]
Personal travel has improved to 97% of normal for the week ended June 19 according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis #14. Some other findings. Personal travel improved to 97% of normal up from 93% of normal for the prior week. Long haul truck travel improved to 99% […]
The out of home debt markets have been remarkably resilient during the Covid. Clear Channel just amended its credit agreement to get more flexibility. OUTFRONT did the same in April. Lamar expects to come through the downturn without asking for any covenants amendments from its lenders and it raised $400 […]
Personal travel has improved to 93% of normal according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis for June 6-12, 2020. Here are the key findings. Personal travel improved from 88% of normal for the week ended June 6 to 93% of normal for the week ended June 12 […]
Personal travel increased to 88% of normal for the week ended June 5th 2020 according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis Issue #12. Some other highlights from the report. Fleet travel has improved to 98% of normal. Make sure your truckstop clients know this. Ten States (Alabama, Alaska, […]
Nationwide passenger traffic increased by another 3% for the week ended May 29 according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis #11. Personal travel was 84% of normal for the week ended May 29, up from 81% of normal for the week ended May 22. Traffic has now returned […]
The Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis Issue #10 (week ended May 22) reports that traffic last week had the largest rebound since Covid. Some other findings: Personal travel improved to 81% of normal for the week ended May 22, up form 75% of normal for the week ended May […]
US personal travel increased another 4% last week according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis for May 9-15, 2020. Nationwide traffic is now 75% of normal. Travel has increased for four straight weeks. Personal travel increased in 97 of 98 metropolitan areas. The exception was Albany, NY which […]
US travel continues to rebound according to the INRIX U.S. National Traffic Volume Synopsis Issue #8 (May 2 – May 8, 2020). Here are the highlights. US passenger travel increased to 71% of normal for the week ended May 8, up from 64% of normal for the week ended May […]
