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Transport Dive: Trucks, Trailers, Tonnage: What Transport Data Says About the State of Industry
Sep 14, 2020
DAT's line haul rates measure the seven-day weekly moving average for spot rates in dry van and reefer hauls. They often reflect the balance of supply and demand in the spot market. The rates exclude fuel surcharges and are derived from DAT’s RateView database.
Wall Street Journal: Lumber Poised to Fall With Autumn’s Approach
Sep 11, 2020
Prices notched a record on Thursday but are likely to fall back to earth.
Wall Street Journal: West Coast Freight Networks ‘Bursting at the Seams’ With Surging Imports
Sep 10, 2020
In a sharp turnaround from the spring, freight railroads and trucking companies are scrambling to get workers and equipment in place to handle a surge in cargo.
Transport Dive: The driver shortage: A big piece of the tight capacity puzzle
Sep 10, 2020
Retirements, career changes, and delays at licensing bureaus and training schools are clogging up the talent pipeline.
Wall Street Journal Logistics Report – Number of the Day
Sep 10, 2020
9.0% - Increase from July to August in rates on the U.S. spot truckload market, according to DAT Solutions.
Journal of Commerce: Shippers swallow higher contract rates to secure capacity
Sep 10, 2020
Shippers who locked in low contract truck rates in January or during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic are now having to renegotiate prices to get capacity because of the sharp turnaround in freight volumes, according to motor carriers.
Logistics Management: Fall trucking levels surprisingly high as industry rebounds from COVID-19 shutdown
Sep 04, 2020
Leading trucking executives and analysts say they are pleasantly surprised by the strength in freight demand coming out of the COVID-19-induced economic shutdown in early summer.
Journal of Commerce: LA-Chicago truck rates double as imports consume capacity
Sep 03, 2020
The flood of imports to Los Angeles and Long Beach this summer is squeezing truckload and LTL capacity on inland truck routes, more than doubling spot rates to Chicago, as intermodal capacity and e-commerce deadlines remain tight.
Wall Street Journal: Truckers Are Seeing Growing Freight Volumes
Sep 03, 2020
Supply Chain Dive: Trucking capacity tightens, signs of loosening loom
Sep 03, 2020
Capacity at the end of August was tight, and DAT principal analyst Dean Croke said carriers are telling him additional trucks won't be added until COVID-19 is better controlled.