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Spot market van has a new headwind – declining auto sales. I’ve been seeing the slump in rail freight traffic

Get your 3 o’clock hustle on! This is an excellent time of the year to score some really high-paying loads,

New investments in natural gas and petrochemical production over the past six years have had a noticeable impact on the

I was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the market conditions for trucking in Q1. There’s more cargo

I’ve been an owner-operator for over eight years, and I’ve learned a few tricks that help me to make more money

New food safety regulations that define brokers as shippers began earlier this month, and the FMCSA put on hold a

TransFX recently announced a strategic partnership with DAT for the development of trucking futures contracts. Citing exhaustive research it did

Want to get a heads up whenever a load you want gets posted to DAT load boards? Don’t have time

The Safety Fitness Determination (SFD) has been postponed. Brokers are disappointed that they still won’t have a clear guideline to

Winter Storm Stella has arrived. As I write this, there are 84 weather restrictions in effect in the Northeast. All

Spot market freight veterans know that by mid-January we start to see freight volumes and rates trending down as the

The freight recession is over. That 18-month malaise was triggered by the worldwide collapse of oil prices at the end