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.
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.
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.
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.
Economic forces, consumer demand, seasonality, natural disasters and myriad other factors contribute to transport’s cyclical market.
Marty Ellis is hauling the OOIDA tour trailer some 120 miles from Columbia, S.C., to Spartanburg, S.C.
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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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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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