Category: Trucking Industry Trends

Driver shortage or truck surplus?

You’ve likely heard reports that there’s a shortage of drivers in the trucking industry. There have also been reports that

The annual reports have all rolled in from publicly traded transportation companies, and it’s obvious that 2018 was a record-setting

Last year was the most explosive freight bull market on record for the trucking industry. But how much of that

Update – January 25: Federal employees are heading back to work for at least three weeks, under an interim budget

Last year rail intermodel took away loads from over-the-road trucking, but now the pendulum is swinging back the other direction.

Rankings based on transaction data in DAT RateView What do you get when you combine an economy that’s growing

What stories got the most attention in 2018? ELDs and driver detention were the most popular topics, followed by business

Investment analysts debate on TV about the timing of the next recession. The Dow is on a roller coaster ride,

Recent weeks have seen a high level of volatility and a sense of growing uncertainty in both the U.S. and

It’s snowing at the wrong time and in all the wrong places. That means a lot of freight delivery schedules

Allentown, PA, was once a major manufacturing town, but it has emerged more recently as a popular location for warehouses

There are really two truckload rate stories this year. For one, spot market rates have declined sharply this fall. In