Fleet Owner: DAT: Uncertainty looms despite steady January
“It may not feel like it, given last month’s business and trade volatility, but spot and contract freight data reflected a market in equilibrium,” firm’s top analyst reports.
“It may not feel like it, given last month’s business and trade volatility, but spot and contract freight data reflected a market in equilibrium,” firm’s top analyst reports.
Call it a discussion of Truckonomics, as CCJ Editor Jason Cannon quipped to start the discussion, which touched on spot and contract rates and freight-volume recovery, tariffs and uncertainty in the business community, potential business tax cuts, and more.
Meet Me For Coffee - recorded on site at Manifest in Las Vegas! Join our host Samantha Jones and her guest Brian Gill, the CTO at DAT Freight & Analytics as they discuss fraud prevention, their new tools and advancements coming soon, and how they are working to increase collaboration with brokers to let them drive the innovation at DAT.
Various factors paced spot truckload freight volumes in January, according to the new edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index, which issued today by DAT Freight and Analytics.
“A reboot in the truck freight market is slower than anticipated,” a U.S. Bank index report said, adding that cyclical and structural challenges remain.
From sure-fire predictions to major trends to watch, industry experts outline the year ahead.
Demand for trucks on the spot market typically rise at the end of a month as shippers clear their docks, according to DAT.
Shippers are holding their collective breath to see how a rash of uncertainties surrounding the U.S. and global economies will impact freight rates in 2025.
In this episode of Supply Chain Decoded, Jenni Ruiz sits down with Ken Adamo, Chief of Analytics at DAT, to challenge some of the freight industry’s biggest misconceptions.
The population of for-hire carriers trended negative for two years. Now, analysts predict trucking's capacity to grow.