Fleet Owner: February freight market mixes slow demand with unusual variables
Truck posts, load posts, and rates are down year-over-year as the freight market continues to adjust to slow demand and excess capacity.
Truck posts, load posts, and rates are down year-over-year as the freight market continues to adjust to slow demand and excess capacity.
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The U.S. truck freight market declined in the last three months of 2023 as shipments and spending fell from the third quarter of last year and the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a new report. The market remained soft in January.
US truckload carriers are attempting to draw a line in annual contract pricing talks with shippers, but some of those shippers are willing to cross that line — or at least smudge it — to gain lower rates.
Overcapacity is still lingering as carriers seek to maintain market share, according to DAT.
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The new edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index (TVI), which was recently issued by DAT Freight & Analytics, noted that spot freight volumes rose to all-time highs, for the month of January, driven by what it described as a weather-related bump in demand for truckload capacity.
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A weather-related bump in demand for truckload capacity pushed spot freight volumes to all-time highs for January, according to a report from DAT Freight & Analytics.