FT: Coronavirus hits US rail volumes
DAT provides insight into how the coronavirus is currently affecting the trucking industry/economy and what effect it might have in the coming months.
DAT provides insight into how the coronavirus is currently affecting the trucking industry/economy and what effect it might have in the coming months.
FMCSA’s relatively new Unified Registration System for new authorities of all types has made it tougher, too, for problem actors to reincarnate and hide their past actions, says DAT Compliance Manager Tami Hart.
Kingsgate Logistics has joined a pilot program that provides early access to a suite of predictive rates and analytics tools from DAT Solutions.
Knight-Swift Logistics’ pilot for DAT Book Now promises to eliminate manual processes like lengthy load searches, phone calls and negotiations.
The automated freight tendering segment continues to heat up with more competitive products hitting the market. The latest is DAT Solutions, which announced a pilot program with Knight-Swift Logistics, the logistics brokerage arm of Knight-Swift Tran
In January 2020, DAT reported a 6 percent decline and JOC’s rate was down 3.2 percent. Contract rates fell more than 10 percent in January, however, according to DAT.
As legislative deadlines go, Jan. 1 loomed large in California where Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which makes it harder for gig-economy companies like Uber and Postmates to qualify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees, was set to
So far this year, spot rates have not been high enough to encourage a greater amount of new orders. Dry-van spot rates fell 4.4% in January, from the same month in 2019, according to DAT Solutions.
Spot market truckload rates got off to a strong start in January, says DAT in its monthly Truckload Volume Index report.
DAT Truckload Volume Index said Feb. 13 that January started on a strong note but fell toward the middle and end of the month.