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Relief efforts for Hurricane Sandy are taking some trucks out of circulation just as last-minute freight is headed to stores

I’m back on dry land after a wonderful vacation cruise. I got some sun, walked miles upon miles on tropical

Last week, spot market rates didn’t exactly recover, but they didn’t drop much either. And fuel prices declined by a

I’ve been designing and testing DAT Load Boards for seven years, and during that time, I have learned that our

I am usually an optimistic, “glass half-full” kind of guy, but it’s hard to ignore recent indicators that point to

The latest week of load and truck posting volume indicates a slowdown of activity on the spot market. Load postings

The load-to-truck ratio is an often overlooked – but surprisingly powerful – feature of the DAT Load Boards and DAT

In my seven years of designing and testing DAT Load Boards and learning how our customers use them, I have

Two weeks ago, I noticed an upward trend in the Los Angeles market, where the load-to-truck ratio climbed from fewer

Good news for truckers! Van spot rates rose last week in major markets and reversed a summer long decline. The

When we launched My DAT Trucker Services, a free load board app for Android and iPhone users, we were cautiously

We are publishing regional highlights of the weekly van rate trend as part of a new feature, DAT Truckload Trends,