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Transport Dive: Trucking demand craters, rates follow

May 06, 2020

Demand for trucking cratered in April. DAT's load-to-truck ratio, a measure of demand, was down 32% year over year (YoY) for vans, down 33% YoY for reefers and down 72% YoY for flatbeds.

Talk Business & Politics: J.B. Hunt evaluates priorities amid COVID-19, trucking groups release new research

May 05, 2020

J.B. Hunt evaluates priorities amid COVID-19, trucking groups release new research

Overdrive Magazine: Some markets show growth in freight volume, but rates still lag

May 05, 2020

The national average spot van rate hovered around $1.50 a mile during the week ending May 3, a four-year low despite improving freight volumes, said DAT Solutions, which operates the DAT load board network.

Land Line: Truckload volumes make gains, but rates lag

May 05, 2020

To say it’s not a trucker’s market right now is a mighty big understatement. Truckload rates tell the story.

Transport Topics: US Economy Sliding Further, Experts Say

May 04, 2020

The U.S. economy is likely in the midst of its deepest recession since the end of World War II, when modern records that tracked the nation’s gross domestic product and unemployment rates were standardized.

The Trucker: Drivers, other industry insiders weigh in on issue of dropping freight rates

Apr 30, 2020

The stories from owner-operators about low freight rates abound.

CNBC: Small truckers may be at risk of bankruptcy without aid amid coronavirus pandemic

Apr 28, 2020

CNBC’s Frank Holland reports that small truck companies may face bankruptcy without government aid.

Food Shippers of America (Summer 2020 Issue): Freight Transportation After COVID-19

Apr 28, 2020

Supply chain operations were just returning to normal in 2019, after a turbulent, two-year period of rising rates and intermittent capacity shortages. Then along came the coronavirus outbreak, and everything changed.

Al Jazeera: Once recession-proof, US trucking is squeezed by coronavirus

Apr 27, 2020

Lockdowns to stem the spread of COVID-19 are reducing loads for truckers as well as the rates they are paid.

WAOW News 9: Truck drivers: essential workers with a shrinking income

Apr 22, 2020

Truck drivers are facing steeply declining pay rates in the wake of this pandemic. The drivers running their own business are facing the worst of it.