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
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.
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
If truckload capacity felt a little tight during the first week of June, it’s not because factory output spiked or there was a sudden bumper crop of tomatoes. It may have been the Roadcheck Effect.
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