Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — freight and a truck headed to the same place.
Spot truckload rates off the West Coast will remain depressed for at least the next few weeks as labor and management working the 29 ports impacted by a recently ended nine-month contract impasse struggle to reduce immense backlogs of idled cargo, a
The maps, snapshots of the last three years’ worth of January load-to-truck ratios in the spot market as analyzed by DAT, show just how exceptional, big picture, January last year was. What followed, of course, was positive for rates and freight, l
This January is fitting the pattern as a slow month in the spot truckload freight market, say analysts at DAT Solutions.
Spot market truck rates for U.S. loads are taking a seasonal slide in January, as slower freight demand frees up more trucks. The DAT Solutions U.S. average dry van spot rate fell to $1.98 per gallon Jan. 17, dropping below $2 per mile for the first
An increase in the minimum amount of liability required for trucking companies would adversely affect owner-operators and smaller carriers at a disproportionate rate and may even force them to close shop, according to recent analysis from DAT Solutio
Is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s work to raise the minimum amount of liability insurance required for carriers warranted? DAT Solutions’ Don Thornton says no, and in a recent blog post published on DAT’s site last week, he g
After recovering somewhat the week before, new numbers show spot market freight rates have turned lower or remain unchanged, according to the freight matching service provider DAT Solutions.
An analysis of recent lane-by-lane trucking activity in the U.S. turns on their heads some assumptions about spot market load boards and how they’re used by carriers.Slightly more than half — 52.7 percent — of spot market truck moves facilitate
Spot market freight volume set another record in September, with a 32 percent increase compared to September 2013, according to the DAT North American Freight Index.