Truck Orders Fall in April
Orders for new Class 8 trucks plunged 39% from a year earlier and for a fourth consecutive month, reflecting a worsening freight market
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
MEMPHIS — Those in the U.S. surface transportation sector can buckle up for more of the same, so long as the national economy continues to creep along at its current pace.
When every mile—and every dollar—counts, shippers need to know which carriers are keeping them on a course to profitability. That's why carrier metrics are so important.
DAT Solutions has a new online analytics service that gives access to truck and load data on 149 key market areas in North America with the highest concentrations of inbound and outbound freight. A Tableau web portal displays a set of trucking freigh