Category: Trucking Industry Trends

What happened to all the Texas freight?

In the first half of the year, the spot market in Texas was boiling over, with not nearly enough trucks

Pipeline capacity issues in West Texas have had a carryover impact into the freight marketplace. We have seen a slowing

If you’re looking for loads on the spot market, you’d do well to get yourself to Texas. For the first

I woke up this morning to a news alert on my phone: U.S. GDP grew at 4.1% in the second

After repeated periods of record growth from January through June, the weekly DAT Dry Van and Reefer Barometers have pulled

Will the recent tariffs lead to a full-blown trade war? Not so fast, says Donald Broughton, managing partner at Broughton

Demand continues to escalate for trucks equipped with dry van trailers, and capacity is still constrained, as we head into

Will the ELD mandate spur an increase in market share for rail intermodal? Some believe the mandate is a watershed

Capacity constraints for vans loosened seasonally in April, but there are still many more loads than trucks available in most

When Jim Syfan, CEO of Syfan Logistics, first started working in the freight brokerage business in the 1970s, there were

Gene Schultz has been in the trucking business for nearly 60 years. Ask him what technological advances have made his

What’s up with rates in January? Listen to the DAT weekly rate trend discussion with Terry Scruton of OOIDA. This