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What can we expect in 2020? With all the uncertainty swirling around the year ahead, it can be tough to

As Florida prepares for Hurricane Dorian’s expected landfall during the Labor Day weekend, data scientists at DAT took a look

Has money been a little tighter for your business lately? If you’re a small carrier or owner-operator, you’re not alone.

A lot of us in the trucking industry had to do something last week that we haven’t had to do

Rankings based on transaction data in DAT RateView What do you get when you combine an economy that’s growing

Flatbed carriers didn’t hear a lot of good news in the second half of 2018. After the spikes we saw

For the first time since 2012, the national average van rate was lower in December than it was in November.

Shippers had plenty of last-minute freight to deliver before Christmas, and that stopped the slow slide we had been seeing

A year ago, the spot market was a much more volatile place. Demand was soaring for retail freight, and the

In recent years, there’s been a spike in spot market rates in December. That hasn’t happened so far in 2018.

Reefer activity picked up after Thanksgiving, but not nearly as much as dry van freight. Right now, retail and e-commerce

Once upon a time, Black Friday marked the end of the retail freight season. Those days are gone. E-commerce has

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