DAT iQ Market Update

Join DAT’s Principal Freight Analyst Dean Croke every Monday at 11:00 a.m. ET for DAT Market Update, a weekly freight podcast covering truckload freight market conditions for brokers and carriers.

Each episode covers truckload spot rates paid to carriers, contract rate trends, capacity shifts, lane-level movement and the market signals shaping freight pricing. Dean also shares insights from DAT’s freight forecasting and rate benchmarking models to help explain what’s happening now and what may come next.

Note: Spot rates in the truckload market are negotiated as all-in rates. When DAT separates fuel from spot rates for analysis, it is done to better isolate the linehaul supply-and-demand signal and understand whether a rate change is being driven by market conditions or fuel movement.