Spot Freight Rates Give Back Recent Gains
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.
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.
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.