Dean Croke was chatting at a truck show recently with a truck driver who had a walking stick and an aged face. Croke, principal analyst at DAT Freight and Analytics and himself a former truck driver, said he thought the man must be 80 years old just by looking at him. Turns out, the man was a year younger than Croke’s 65.
Spot truck and load posts jumped 114% week over week as the spot market returned to seasonal norms as shippers restocked, according to DAT One.
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Relative to the busy week before, truck and load posts on the DAT One marketplace fell sharply during Thanksgiving week.
Data recently issued on the DAT One network provided to LM by DAT Freight & Analytics mostly pointed to declining metrics for truckload spot market load posts, for the week of Thanksgiving, from November 24-30.