O setor de transporte rodoviário: análise da dinâmica da oferta e demanda pelo serviço de frete

Abstract

The study seeks to analyze the historical behavior of the road transport sector by examining how the current conditions of supply and demand for the freight service take place, and what inferences we can make from the implementation of the institutional measures after the trucker’s strike in 2018. For this purpose, the bibliography on business strategies is used as a theoretical tool to construe this dynamic. It was observed that the drop in Brazilian GDP in the second decade, and the increase in the price of diesel, as well as the role of intermediary trading companies, contributed to the drop in the price of freight services. After the implement of the freight table in 2018, it was noticed an increase in truck sales and hiring of truck drivers, although this phenomenon does not necessarily attest to a movement of internalization of the firms, since it is also observed during the same period, a recovery in the country's economy.