Report: 63% of Drivers Spend Over 3 Hours Waiting to Load, Unload
Close to 63% of drivers spend more than three hours at a shipper’s dock waiting to be loaded and unloaded, according to a recent survey by DAT Solutions.
Close to 63% of drivers spend more than three hours at a shipper’s dock waiting to be loaded and unloaded, according to a recent survey by DAT Solutions.
Four years ago, I wrote a post for our company blog titled: “The Death of the Buck-a-Mile Backhaul.”At the time, those cheap hauls seemed to be going away. In March 2012, only one major van lane paid the carrier $1 per mile: Philadelphia to Chica
When is a broker a shipper? Or a carrier? The Final Rule for the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food, published in the Federal Register on April 7, has created a bit of an identity crisis for people and companies responsible for the tran
Orders for new Class 8 trucks plunged 39% from a year earlier and for a fourth consecutive month, reflecting a worsening freight market
A monthly index of truckload pricing grew at a modest pace in February, and one leading forecaster says there’s a chance rates will turn negative this year
Freight rates for long-haul truckers fell across all truck types in February as weak demand and plentiful space on trucks continued to make life hard for fleet owners.
Spot prices falling to lowest levels in 2009 put shippers in the driver's seat, carriers in the trunk.
Taken separately, recent reports on freight movements, shipper spending and even the spot market can be downright confusing if you’re trying to figure what’s happening to the nation’s freight market and overall economic health.
It seems like a week didn’t go by in 2015 without another startup introducing a mobile app to help shippers find available space on trucks.
There are so many ways to analyze the state of truckload capacity, and on top of that there is, perhaps, no other facet of freight transportation that is so directly impacted by myriad moving parts, whether it be driver availability, rates, demand, w