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Transport Topics: Trucking Fights Back Against Fuel Card Skimming

Fuel card skimming has become an increasing threat to the financial security of truck fleets, but industry leaders have been making progress addressing the issue over the past year.

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The Trucker: CAT Scale Rig of the Week | Dean Croke

Dean Croke is the principal analyst for DAT Freight and Analytics, and he has quite the backstory. Dean has been driving for most of his life, growing up in a family livestock haulage business in Australia. He’s driven around 2 million miles, including pulling some of the biggest road trains in existence.

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Fleet Owner: Analysts expect rate upturn within months

Fleets may finally find for-hire rates are turning up: Forecasts call for a market flip as early as Q2.

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Supply Chain Now: Analysis of the U.S. Bank 2024 Q4 Freight Payment Index

In this episode of Supply Chain Now, hosts Scott W. Luton and Kim Reuter are joined by freight industry experts Bobby Holland, Director of Freight Business Analytics at U.S. Bank, and Ken Adamo, Chief of Analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics. Together, they break down the latest U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index and what it reveals about the current state of the freight market.

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Transport Topics: Trucking Must Stay a Step Ahead in Battling Digital Theft

Fleets and trucking companies historically haven’t worried too much about cybersecurity. In some instances, it has been looked upon like insurance.

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Truck News: ECONOMIC TRUCKING TRENDS: Equilibrium returning to freight market, vocational buyers lead pre-buy

There are finally signs emerging of the anticipated EPA27 pre-buy, but it’s coming from vocational truck buyers and not those in the on-highway segment.

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Fleet Owner: DAT: Uncertainty looms despite steady January

“It may not feel like it, given last month’s business and trade volatility, but spot and contract freight data reflected a market in equilibrium,” firm’s top analyst reports.

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Overdrive: Freight analysts forecast headwinds of uncertainty around tariffs, could yield slow-growth 2025

Call it a discussion of Truckonomics, as CCJ Editor Jason Cannon quipped to start the discussion, which touched on spot and contract rates and freight-volume recovery, tariffs and uncertainty in the business community, potential business tax cuts, and more.

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Meet Me For Coffee: Combating Fraud and Collaborating

Meet Me For Coffee - recorded on site at Manifest in Las Vegas! Join our host Samantha Jones and her guest Brian Gill, the CTO at DAT Freight & Analytics as they discuss fraud prevention, their new tools and advancements coming soon, and how they are working to increase collaboration with brokers to let them drive the innovation at DAT.

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Supply Chain 247: DAT January Truckload Volume Index mostly sees gains for spot truckload activity

Various factors paced spot truckload freight volumes in January, according to the new edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index, which issued today by DAT Freight and Analytics.

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