Category: Trucking Industry Trends

Lack of pipeline capacity slowing freight in West Texas

Pipeline capacity issues in West Texas have had a carryover impact into the freight marketplace. We have seen a slowing

In all three modes, the DAT® Trucking Freight Barometers are continuing to demonstrate three basic trends: Demand that exceeds capacity

If you’re looking for loads on the spot market, you’d do well to get yourself to Texas. For the first

To say that the first half of 2018 was “a period of both extreme volatility and unprecedented imbalance between capacity

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