At the Pentagon they call it “asymmetric warfare,” but around the halls of CCJ it’s just called “trucking”: That is, a situation where combatants’ or competitors’ relative size and strength differ significantly.
Though it’s aimed at shippers to a large extent, I imagine many of you will find DAT’s new white paper, “Truckload Capacity in 2014: What’s Causing the Capacity Crunch and What Can Shippers Do About It,” an interesting read through a multif
Spot market truck pricing is unseasonably high in late August, with shippers paying on average 16 cents more per mile for dry van trucks than a year ago, DAT Solutions said. Higher freight rates in late summer and stronger demand for dry van trailers
Freight availability on the spot market was 50 percent higher in June compared to the same month the previous year, continuing a pattern of elevated activity in 2014, according to the DAT North American Freight Index, a measure of truckload freight d
Based on spot-market data that was somewhat skewed by the Fourth of July holiday falling on a weekday (as that meant one less day for posting trucks and freight), DAT Solutions has reported that “demand and capacity on the spot truckload market dec
According to the American Trucking Association, 68.5 percent of freight shipped on the nation's highways and interstates in 2012 went by way of truck. The 2012 DAT Carrier Benchmark Survey shows that for-hire carriers had an average monthly revenue p
While the months on the calendar continue to change, the situation when it comes to spot market activity remains consistent in terms of annual gains.
The amount of freight available on the spot market has jumped but rates have moved barely higher, if at all for some cargo. The freight matching service provider DAT reports the total number of loads available increased 7.5% May 11 through May 17, co
DAT Solutions’ carrier onboarding product, DAT Onboarding, is now integrated with Aljex Software, the company announced. Through the integration, Aljex users can quickly and efficiently bring on new carriers without leaving the Aljex application, D
Temperature-controlled carrier KLLM Transport Services is deploying DAT Keypoint Logistics Software, a transportation management system for freight brokerages, in its growing brokerage operation.