BG Strategic Advisors is pleased to announce and congratulate SecūrSpace CEO Lance Theobald as the winner of the DAT sponsored BGSA 2020 Supply Chain “Shark Tank” competition featured at the BG Strategic Advisors Supply Chain Conference 2020 held at
Coming off universally soft fourth-quarter earnings, truckload carriers and brokers think the first half of 2020 will continue to be a challenge for them, and while there is some optimism for a turnaround this summer, not everyone is convinced it...
US railroads and intermodal providers forecast container volume to be stronger in 2020 than a year ago, but sluggish conditions will persist in the short term before shipper demand picks up in the second half, company officials have indicated ...
Rates finding footing, DAT says — a positive for 2020 outlook Despite a decline in freight volume in December, spot market rates surged in the month, according to DAT’s monthly Truckload Freight Volume Index.
DAT said there were some seasonable elements in the mix, with spot rates rising in December over each of the last five years, as December van and reefer rates each registered their highest levels going back to January 2020.
Atlanta was the easiest market to find spot truckload van freight in 2019, according to a Jan. 9 DAT Solutions report.
DAT Solutions is supplying Knight-Swift Transportation with a new rate forecasting tool to provide actionable short-term and long-term insights into transportation markets. The tool provides forecasts based on the DAT RateView database of more than $
Peggy Dorf, senior analyst at DAT, said the Celadon’s closure could cause some temporary hang-ups in isolated markets or lanes, but at the national level, even 3,000 trucks don’t have a big impact on capacity or rates in today’s market conditions
Rates rose sharply on loads that were picked up during the week ending Dec. 1 as brokers tried to attract capacity during the short workweek, according to data issued by DAT Solutions.
Both the Coyote Curve fourth-quarter forecast and DAT Solutions 2020 Forecast show contract truckload rates rising sometime after the mid-year point in 2020.