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Transport Dive: Truck vs. train: Which has the upper hand as spot rates soar?
Oct 15, 2020
Shippers consider lead times and freight types when selecting over-the-road, rail or intermodal.
Transport Dive: Truck vs. train: Which has the upper hand as spot rates soar?
Oct 15, 2020
Shippers consider lead times and freight types when selecting over-the-road, rail or intermodal.
Talk Business & Politics: Truck capacity limited, spot rates up nearly 50% heading into holiday shipping season
Oct 14, 2020
Dean Croke, principal analyst for DAT iQ, the freight data and analytics operation for DAT Freight & Analytics, expects winners and losers in the holiday shipping season this year. DAT operates an online marketplace for spot truckload freight.
Journal of Commerce: US shippers shell out to secure container, truck capacity
Oct 05, 2020
Trucking executives say they’re seeing more shippers renegotiate contracts struck in January and swallowing higher rates to lock in capacity.
TransportDive: Are Uber Freight’s visibility tools worth trading data?
Sep 25, 2020
Data sharing is an issue, commercially and in public policy, that is hot on tongues of lawmakers and Silicon Valley officials. U.S. companies tend to take proactive measures to assure users, experts told Transport Dive.
Overdrive: Can owner-operators crack the contract-freight nut?
Sep 23, 2020
Working into contracted freight is the goal of many an independent owner-operator looking to grow or increase stability.
Cargo Business: 3 Things You Can Bank On in an Unpredictable Freight Market
Sep 18, 2020
Every September, freight starts to accelerate through supply chains in advance of the end-of-the-year holidays.
Overdrive: ‘A heyday’ for rates on cross-border freight leaving Laredo
Sep 18, 2020
Demand for goods coming in from Mexico at the Laredo, Texas, border crossing is spurring significant per-mile rate hikes for loads out of Laredo into the rest of the U.S., says a prominent brokerage that works cross-border freight.
Logistics Management: DAT Truckload Volume Index highlights surging spot market rates in August
Sep 17, 2020
Over all, the index increased up 1.1% from July to August and was up 0.8% annually.
Overdrive: Peeling back the layers of the freight market as spot loads and rates boom
Sep 16, 2020
In large part, on the spot market anyway, 2020 has been a tale of two seasons, as many owner-operators and small fleets have experienced first hand in their own dealings.