Category: Trucking Industry Trends

GDP growth is no surprise if you watch trucking trends

I woke up this morning to a news alert on my phone: U.S. GDP grew at 4.1% in the second

After repeated periods of record growth from January through June, the weekly DAT Dry Van and Reefer Barometers have pulled

It’s been an unprecedented year on the spot market so far. In 2018, we’ve seen record volumes and record prices,

Will the recent tariffs lead to a full-blown trade war? Not so fast, says Donald Broughton, managing partner at Broughton

Demand continues to escalate for trucks equipped with dry van trailers, and capacity is still constrained, as we head into

Will the ELD mandate spur an increase in market share for rail intermodal? Some believe the mandate is a watershed

Industry analysts seem to agree that spot and contract rates will keep rising due to the stronger economy and the

Capacity constraints for vans loosened seasonally in April, but there are still many more loads than trucks available in most

When Jim Syfan, CEO of Syfan Logistics, first started working in the freight brokerage business in the 1970s, there were

Gene Schultz has been in the trucking business for nearly 60 years. Ask him what technological advances have made his

DAT Industry Pricing Analyst Mark Montague spoke with OOIDA’s Terry Scruton this week on Land Line Now. They discussed the

Shippers are already paying more, sometimes a lot more, to move freight, and driver compensation will soon follow that upward