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Please Haul My Freight: Freight Report: Merry Christmas

A little glimmer of Christmas hope in the spot truckload data. The DAT Top 50 Lanes shows truckload spot rates are up 0.5% month over month.

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Land Line: Fighting against coercion of truckers

One of the biggest problems in trucking is the way some shippers, receivers, brokers and others coerce truckers into situations where they end up violating the regulations.

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Fleet Owner: Spot rates keep falling, but threat of rail strike, seasonal demand aid market

Shippers turned to the spot market in the latter half of November to reduce the risk of disruptions, but rates continued their months long slide, according to a new DAT Freight & Analytics report on the month.

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Transport Dive: Trucks, trailers, tonnage: What transport data says about the state of the industry

Economic forces, consumer demand, seasonality, natural disasters and myriad other factors contribute to transport’s cyclical market.

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Land Line: OOIDA tour trailer rolls into Spartanburg, S.C.

Marty Ellis is hauling the OOIDA tour trailer some 120 miles from Columbia, S.C., to Spartanburg, S.C.

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Supply Chain 24/7: Transportation & Logistics Companies Gain Significant Benefits from Technology Investments

Transitioning a trucking or logistics enterprise to a virtual work environment was not an overnight process, but as companies gained momentum they also found ways to scale their operations to maximize efficiencies.

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American Journal of Transportation: DAT: Rail strike threat, seasonality gave falling spot freight volumes a boost in November

Truckload volumes on the spot market were lower overall but showed relative strength during the latter half of November, said DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the DAT One truckload freight marketplace and the DAT iQ data analytics service.

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Land Line: Can trucking switch to all electric trucks?

The American Transportation Research Institute has a new report that lays out the challenges associated with converting the nation over to a fully electric world.

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Get DX Podcast: Leading infrastructure change at scale | Ian White (DAT)

Ian White, Director of Platform Engineering at DAT, joined the company to scale their Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, which has come under stress as their business has grown over the past couple years.

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Food Logistics: Top Software & Tech Providers Award: Visibility, Supply Chain Management Lead the Way

This year’s winners are investing in anything that offers end-to-end management, from farm to fork, and beyond.

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