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Download our 2019 Spot Market Roadmap FREE

Posted: 24 Jan, 2019 by Pat Pitz

Last year was the most explosive freight bull market on record for the trucking industry. But how much of that will carry over into 2019? Stay in front of the freight trends all year with this feature-filled outlook into the key market factors affecting your business. Sign up here to get the FREE Spot Freight Roadmap report. We examine the trends of 2018 and provide a forecast of what to expect in the new year in the 2019 Spot Freight Roadmap. Inside you'll find: The busiest markets ...

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How does the government shutdown affect trucking?

Posted: 18 Jan, 2019 by Peggy Dorf

Update - January 25: Federal employees are heading back to work for at least three weeks, under an interim budget agreement. The government shutdown started December 22, and it's already the longest in U.S. history. More than 800,000 Federal employees are affected, and 420,000 of them continue ...

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Trucking wins business back from railroad

Posted: 16 Jan, 2019 by Donald Broughton

Last year rail intermodel took away loads from over-the-road trucking, but now the pendulum is swinging back the other direction. Diesel prices are dropping, which makes dry van transportation more attractive and reduces the cost advantage of rail intermodal for domestic freight. Most of the industr...

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2018: Year of the ELD

Posted: 08 Jan, 2019 by Matt Sullivan

ELDs ruled everything around us in 2018. The topic dominated our list of most-read stories, and the mandate was central to most of the trends that played out in the freight industry last year. But before 2018…there was 2017. And in 2017, there was plenty of speculation about what would happen...

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Top 10 markets for freight in 2018

Posted: 07 Jan, 2019 by Matt Sullivan

What do you get when you combine an economy that's growing like gangbusters and a truck shortage? That'd be 2018.

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