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Overdrive: Coronavirus risk for truckers appears minimal, though lockdown in China could impact inbound freight
Feb 10, 2020
SCMR: A Market-Based Pricing Model for Transportation Contracts
Feb 10, 2020
Real-world results: MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics uses DAT rate index in partnership with a leading shipper to develop more responsive long-term transportation contracts.
JOC: DAT brings $68 billion in data to rate forecasting
Feb 08, 2020
DAT Solutions is using predictive analytics technology to sift through more than $68 billion in annual spot and contract transactions to give cargo owners a better sense of what they could be paying for trucking over the next 12 months...
Heavy Duty Trucking: Q&A – DAT Analytics Guru Explains how Freight Forecasting Works
Feb 07, 2020
DAT Solutions announced a pilot program for a suite of new rate forecasting and market analysis tools in January ahead of a commercial launch in April. In this HDT interview, Ken Adamo, chief analytics officer, and Eileen Hart, vice president of mark
Supply Chain Dive: NRF – Coronavirus could cause 13% import drop at US ports
Feb 07, 2020
Major U.S. ports could see a nearly 13% drop in containerized retail imports in February, down to 1.41 million TEUs, due to extended production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China, according to the National Retail Federation's Globa
Land Line: January’s soft spot rates slide into February
Feb 05, 2020
Rates on DAT MembersEdge were at their lows for the year on most lanes and trending down last week.
CCJ: Coronavirus lockdown likely to crimp truck freight as global supply chain faces ‘severe disruptions’
Feb 05, 2020
DAT Solutions said in a statement to CCJ the impact of the normal slowdown in imports on the West Coast due to the Lunar New Year holiday is “typically felt in the U.S. through the end of February.”
BGSA Holdings: BG Strategic Advisors Announces the BGSA 2020 Supply Chain “Shark Tank” Competition Winner
Feb 03, 2020
BG Strategic Advisors is pleased to announce and congratulate SecūrSpace CEO Lance Theobald as the winner of the DAT sponsored BGSA 2020 Supply Chain “Shark Tank” competition featured at the BG Strategic Advisors Supply Chain Conference 2020 held at
JOC: Truckload struggle likely to linger through H1 2020
Jan 31, 2020
Coming off universally soft fourth-quarter earnings, truckload carriers and brokers think the first half of 2020 will continue to be a challenge for them, and while there is some optimism for a turnaround this summer, not everyone is convinced it...
JOC: Intermodal turnaround not expected until summer
Jan 29, 2020
US railroads and intermodal providers forecast container volume to be stronger in 2020 than a year ago, but sluggish conditions will persist in the short term before shipper demand picks up in the second half, company officials have indicated ...