Category: Trucking Industry Trends

Plastics and Cotton

Some refineries are still closed, as are many factories that make basic petrochemicals, including ethylene and propylene, that are essential

Hurricane Harvey is going to have a big impact on freight transportation and logistics in the weeks and months to

Hurricane Harvey is expected to hit South Texas and the Gulf Coast tonight or tomorrow morning, and it may remain

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