Fourkites Winter Story Landon analysis

Landon has impacted the Rockies, Midwest, Plains and South since Tuesday night, and moved to the Northeast on Friday.

When comparing states inside vs. outside the storm path, we see a significant difference in the number of loads completed on February 2nd and February 3rd. In states that were heavily hit by the storm path (TX, OK, MO, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY, AR, MI, ME, NH, VT, KY, KS), we saw a ~43% decline in the number of completed OTR loads week-over-week. In states outside the primary storm path, we only saw a 9% decrease in completed OTR loads.

Across both days of the storm (2/2 and 2/3), the states hardest hit in terms of decrease in shipment volume were (% decrease in shipments WoW)

• Indiana (-72%)
  
• Missouri (-61%)
  
• Oklahoma (-52%)
  
• Kansas (-44%)
  
• Illinois (-41%)
  

We also saw ~13% and ~10% more delayed shipments in states within the storm zone vs. in states outside the storm zone on February 2nd and 3rd, respectively:

• February 2: 17.0% increase in delayed shipments WoW within the storm zone vs. 3.8% increase outside the storm zone
  
• February 3: 8.7% increase in delayed shipments WoW within the storm zone vs. 1.3% decrease in delayed shipments outside the storm zone