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Truck Freight Rates Slide in Softening Spot Market

Freight rates for long-haul truckers fell across all truck types in February as weak demand and plentiful space on trucks continued to make life hard for fleet owners.

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Truckload spot market rates, imbalances extend 2015 weakness into 2016

Spot prices falling to lowest levels in 2009 put shippers in the driver's seat, carriers in the trunk.

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Commentary: What Economic Indicators Tell Us About Shifting Freight Trends

Taken separately, recent reports on freight movements, shipper spending and even the spot market can be downright confusing if you’re trying to figure what’s happening to the nation’s freight market and overall economic health.

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Trucking Trends: The Year Big Data Goes to Work

It seems like a week didn’t go by in 2015 without another startup introducing a mobile app to help shippers find available space on trucks.

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DAT’s Montague offers up deep dive on state of spot market

There are so many ways to analyze the state of truckload capacity, and on top of that there is, perhaps, no other facet of freight transportation that is so directly impacted by myriad moving parts, whether it be driver availability, rates, demand, w

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Soft economy, slow volume growth for surface transport seen ahead

MEMPHIS — Those in the U.S. surface transportation sector can buckle up for more of the same, so long as the national economy continues to creep along at its current pace.

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Transportation Metrics: Keeping Score

When every mile—and every dollar—counts, shippers need to know which carriers are keeping them on a course to profitability. That's why carrier metrics are so important.

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DAT Solutions creates new analytics portal for freight data

DAT Solutions has a new online analytics service that gives access to truck and load data on 149 key market areas in North America with the highest concentrations of inbound and outbound freight. A Tableau web portal displays a set of trucking freigh

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Uber-for-freight finds its footing

Car-service apps like Uber and Lyft are growing in popularity, as the immediacy of being matched with a vehicle via the speed and payment efficiency of a smartphone is a winner in the eyes of many.

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Guest Voices: Technology Provides Opportunity, Not Disruption to Freight Brokers

A new generation of apps is targeting industrial freight shipping, but there’s more to logistics than calling yourself an Uber for trucking. Talk about the disruption coming from technology applications is everywhere, and that’s especially true i

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