Truck News: ECONOMIC TRUCKING TRENDS: Tonnage dips, but long-term forecast is strong
For-hire truck tonnage in the U.S. dipped in December, but vocational orders are soaring as infrastructure projects commence.
For-hire truck tonnage in the U.S. dipped in December, but vocational orders are soaring as infrastructure projects commence.
Utah-based Deseret Transportation’s fleet of less than 50 trucks still uses CB radios, finding them especially useful going over Donner Pass in a snowstorm, or when starting up the canyon from Laramie toward Sherman, Wyoming.
December increase in the need for trucks, including a 3% surge in spot reefer demand, indicates trucking benefited from solid retail and grocery sales ahead of the holidays.
Demand for trucks on the spot market rose in December, suggesting solid retail and grocery sales ahead of the holidays, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.
Spot market trucking activity demand and rates saw gains over the month of December, in advance of the holidays, according to the new edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index, which issued today by DAT Freight and Analytics.
Spot market trucking activity demand and rates saw gains over the month of December, in advance of the holidays, according to the new edition of the DAT Truckload Volume Index, which issued today by DAT Freight and Analytics.
The deadline to file comments on the proposed broker transparency regulation has passed, and as President Trump assumes office today, the industry is wondering which direction policies will sway.
Year-over-year increase in loads posted to the U.S. truckload spot market in December, as truck postings fell by 32% in the same month, according to DAT Solutions.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services is warning shippers to prepare for higher rates for intermodal rail service in 2025 but acknowledges that market conditions may not favor carriers until the third quarter.
US shippers, concerned by the prospect of higher trucking costs later this year, are looking to keep rate hikes low in the current round of annual contract talks while trying to maintain their roster of incumbent trucking providers.