DC Velocity: DAT and FourKites to Provide Unparalleled Transparency and Visibility into Truckload Freight
DAT Freight & Analytics, North America’s largest marketplace for truckload freight, and FourKites®, the leading real-time supply chain visibility platform in the world, today announced a strategic partnership that will bring real-time, end-to-end supply chain visibility to the DAT network. The partnership will give brokers the ability to seamlessly improve their customer service, as well as strengthen their relationships with carriers, reducing the need for check-calls and ETA management. It will also enable carriers to quickly integrate tracking through ELD or tracking applications.
American Journal of Transportation: DAT Selects FourKites to Provide Unparalleled Transparency and Visibility into Truckload Freight
DAT Freight & Analytics, North America’s largest marketplace for truckload freight, and FourKites, the leading real-time supply chain visibility platform in the world, today announced a strategic partnership that will bring real-time, end-to-end supply chain visibility to the DAT network.
The Journal of Commerce Online: No Break From High Truckload Spot Rates for US Shippers
This year throw in faster US economic growth, a rising tide of US imports, a manufacturing recovery, and a fuel pipeline shutdown in the east, and pressure on truck capacity is hitting new heights. Despite a 9.5 percent drop in load posts and a nearly 24 percent increase in available trucks on DAT Freight & Analytics load boards, spot market dry van rates rose 1.6 percent in the week ended May 23.
Logistics Management: DAT Truckload Volume Index Sees May Rates Rise
DAT reported that May spot truckload volume rates hit a new record, even though volume declines from April to May, which the firm said is an indication that “transportation networks are not growing fast enough to keep up with demand.” With the May Truckload Volume Index coming in at 212, that marked a 6% decline compared to April, while still marking the fourth highest month on record.
The Loadstar: A Rough Ride for US Shippers as the Carriers’ ‘Black Swan’ Event Goes Golden
West coast ports were still seeing surging volumes that are now being foisted onto the trucking market, said Dean Croke, principal analyst for DAT Solutions.
Logistics Management: DAT’s April Truckload Volume Index Heads Down in April While Still Posting Solid Results
Following two straight months of records, in February and March, the April edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index, which was recently issued by DAT Freight & analytics, an online marketplace for spot market truckload freight, trended down but still was strong.
Truckinginfo: DAT: Truckload Volume Slips in April
Truckload freight activity declined last month but April was still the second busiest month on record for shippers, freight brokers and motor carriers, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.
Transport Topics: Loads Increasingly Shifting to Spot Market, DAT Data Shows
DAT Freight & Analytics highlighted the trend in its trendlines report for the week ending April 11. The spot load posts within its network have increased since that time and remain exceedingly high compared with past years for the week ending May 9.
Supply Chain Quarterly: FMCSA Relaxes Hours of Service in Pipeline Hacking Response
According to the load board network operator DAT Freight & Analytics, spot truckload rates remained near all-time highs during the week ending May 3, just a year after they bottomed out during pandemic business and travel closures.
American Journal of Transportation: DAT Spot Market Update: One Year After Touching Bottom, Spot Truckload Rates are Soaring
The 7-day average line-haul rate for dry vans was $2.27 a mile last week, 95 cents higher than the same period one year ago (line-haul rates exclude a fuel surcharge), according to DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the industry’s largest load board network and the DAT iQ freight-data analytics service.