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4 ways truckers can get more time at home

Posted: 15 Aug, 2018 by Chad Boblett

When I first got started working with freight brokers in 2011, I was averaging more than 200 nights away from home each year. My primary strategy at that time was to go from one hot market to another hot market, chasing the highest-paying loads. At the beginning of 2015, the spot market demand for trucks slowed down and I needed to change how I use the load board. As a result, this year will be my fourth in a row where I’ve averaged fewer than 30 nights away from home. Below are four strat...

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Categories: Trucking Lifestyle

Tags: Owner-Operator Carrier

2 capacity-finding tools you may not know you have

Posted: 15 Aug, 2018 by Pat Pitz

Capacity has been especially tight this year, as evidenced in DAT's load-to-truck ratios that have surged to record highs this summer. If you're a freight broker using the DAT Power load board, you may have capacity-finding tools that you aren't even aware of. Here are two of them: 1. DA...

Categories: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Tags: Broker Shipper

Life before load boards

Posted: 14 Aug, 2018 by Pat Pitz

Mark Boyer has spent his whole career in the trucking and logistics industry, with a front row seat for all kinds of new technologies, including many products from DAT. As DAT celebrates its 40th year, we reminisced with Boyer, who serves as Vice President of Brokerage for Keller Logistics in ...

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Categories: Trucking Lifestyle

Tags: DAT 40th Anniversary Carrier Broker Owner-Operator

Summer freight: Calm before the storm?

Posted: 13 Aug, 2018 by Matt Sullivan

Brokers and shippers have had an easier time finding trucks in recent weeks, at least when compared to the first half of the year. That's taken some of the pressure off of pricing, but rates are still high. Spot market volume is also now on par with 2017, with load-to-truck ratios for each trailer t...

Categories: Rate Trend of the Week

Tags: Carrier Broker Owner-Operator

Dog days of summer freight?

Posted: 08 Aug, 2018 by Matt Sullivan

It's looking more and more like you won't have to sweat much of a summer slowdown this year. This would typically be a down time for freight, and while rates in July and August are lower than they were in June, they're still 25 to 30% higher than last year. That steady decline from the June peak mig...

Categories: Rate Trend of the Week

Tags: Carrier Broker Owner-Operator

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