Does an annual truck inspection blitz impact the market? A new analysis by DAT Solutions says it’s likely, and spot rate increases are going to cost shippers and could signal an improving summer freight season. Coincidentally, the federal penalties
Since they were launched some 35 years ago, load boards that match freight with trucks on the truckload spot market have led mostly low-tech lives. The original monitors, resembling the familiar flight arrival and departure boards at airports, were l
U.S. truck tonnage dropped 3 percent in April from March, the American Trucking Associations said, as retail sales stayed flat and spring seemed to lack spring.
It may seem a misnomer to label a $35 billion-a-year industry a "niche market." Yet that's how companies that provide freight rating software services describe their business. It is a specialized, albeit mature, field populated by relatively few vend
More and more, says DAT General Manager Steve Blair, carriers unable for a variety of reasons to bring on drivers are moving to broker loads to provide customers service. “We’re seeing a growing trend in carriers running brokerages,” Blair says
An executive of one of the leading truck spot-market load boards said loads with the characteristics of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments are populating its boards at twice the rate of truckload shipments, and today account for between 10 and 15 pe
The “Uberization” of freight has been big in the news following the rise of the Uber taxi service. If you’re not familiar with Uber, it allows a customer to click a smartphone app and, usually within a few minutes, an independent contractor arr
Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — freight and a truck headed to the same place.
Spot truckload rates off the West Coast will remain depressed for at least the next few weeks as labor and management working the 29 ports impacted by a recently ended nine-month contract impasse struggle to reduce immense backlogs of idled cargo, a
The maps, snapshots of the last three years’ worth of January load-to-truck ratios in the spot market as analyzed by DAT, show just how exceptional, big picture, January last year was. What followed, of course, was positive for rates and freight, l