Category: Trucking Industry Trends

2017 in Review: Disruptions Drive Rates Up

2017 was a wild year, as freight transportation faced one disruption after another. The biggest influences were the Four Es:

DAT Industry Pricing Analyst Mark Montague says that the spot market has seen strong growth during the past few months

Whenever a natural disaster strikes, FEMA needs trucks, warehouse space and logistics services to help with the recovery and haul

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

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

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