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If you read this blog regularly, you are familiar with DAT’s perspective on the news and trends in transportation and

When calling on a load or bidding on RFPs, you need to have reliable pricing information at your fingertips. If

When River Place Logistics of Raleigh, North Carolina, launched in 2009, the founders encountered a problem they hadn’t anticipated—the credit

When a shipper calls and wants to know if you can arrange to move a load tomorrow, you need to

Texas is now the number-one state for refrigerated (“reefer”) freight transportation on the spot market, and by a wide margin.

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The hours-of-service rules that went into place in 2013 hurt trucking companies economically. The HOS rules reduced fleet productivity by

The economy has been sending mixed signals lately. Unemployment is low, but so is workforce participation. The ISM Manufacturing Index

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If a shipper calls and wants to know exactly where his freight is, can you tell him? Freight brokers and

As truckload demand shifts across the country, some of the lanes that were paying headhaul rates just a few weeks

Even with diesel prices dropping, fuel is still one of the largest expenses for carriers. The better you’re able to