Category: Trucking Industry Trends

DAT Barometers Help Predict Rate Trends

Broughton Capital, LLC, an independent financial research firm, has developed a set of tools for the truckload industry called “DAT

If you read our weekly e-newsletter Trendlines, or follow daily load-to-truck ratios in DAT RateView, you may have noticed this:

New investments in natural gas and petrochemical production over the past six years have had a noticeable impact on the

I was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the market conditions for trucking in Q1. There’s more cargo

The collapse of a section of a bridge section on I-85 just north of Atlanta was shocking for two reasons:

At the beginning of the year, DAT Pricing Analyst Mark Montague declared that the freight recession was over. A month

California supplies nearly 50% of the nation’s produce. The central valley of California has been called “the nation’s bread basket,”

Overall, 2016 was a year of relatively loose capacity. Don’t count on the same for 2017. A number of looming

The freight recession is over. That 18-month malaise was triggered by the worldwide collapse of oil prices at the end

When we recapped our most-read blog posts of 2016, the American Transportation Research Institute’s study of the top issues facing

I confess: I love lists. So here’s one for all of you DAT blog readers out there. Thanks to your

I’ve spent a lot of time recently making PowerPoint slides for two panel presentations that were given by my colleagues