DAT Freight & Analytics said Wednesday that customers who book truckload freight through its site will be able to track drivers using FourKites’ shipment visibility platform.
Truckload freight marketplace DAT Freight & Analytics is working with FourKites, which provides a real-time supply chain visibility platform, to bring visibility to the DAT network.
DAT Freight & Analytics, North America’s largest marketplace for truckload freight, and FourKites®, the leading real-time supply chain visibility platform in the world, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.