American Journal of Transportation: DAT to integrate PIERS import-export data
DAT Freight & Analytics announced an agreement with IHS Market PIERS to add import and export data into DAT iQ’s RateView and Benchmark Analytics reporting.
DAT Freight & Analytics announced an agreement with IHS Market PIERS to add import and export data into DAT iQ’s RateView and Benchmark Analytics reporting.
DAT Freight & Analytics has added new datasets to its DAT iQ platform.
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December’s reading—at 236—was off 3% compared to November, a month which matched October in setting a record for the number of loads moved by motor carriers in a month, according to DAT.
DAT’s Truckload Volume Index was 236, a 3% decline compared to November, when the Index set a record for the number of loads moved by carriers in a month, and was up 18% year-over-year, reflecting strong truckload freight volumes as 2021 came to a close.
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. beat expectations for earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter and 2021 and surpassed $10 billion in annual revenue for the first time amid strong freight demand, rising rates and a tight labor market.
Truck tonnage in December rose a seasonally adjusted 1.4% compared with the same month in 2020 — the fourth consecutive year-over-year gain and the highest measurement since March, American Trucking Associations announced.
Van and refrigerated (“reefer”) truckload freight rates hit new highs in December, with national average prices up 21.9% and 29.5% respectively compared to the same period a year ago, said DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the industry’s largest marketplace for spot truckload freight and the DAT iQ data analytics service.
The fast-spreading variant of COVID-19 likely won’t affect trucking as much as warehousing and aviation, but its indirect impact will put more pressure on already high trucking costs.