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Supply Chain Brain: Will Relatively Stable Freight Rates Stay That Way in 2025?

Shippers are holding their collective breath to see how a rash of uncertainties surrounding the U.S. and global economies will impact freight rates in 2025.

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Spotify: Supply Chain Decoded

In this episode of Supply Chain Decoded, Jenni Ruiz sits down with Ken Adamo, Chief of Analytics at DAT, to challenge some of the freight industry’s biggest misconceptions.

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Fleet Owner: Trucking’s capacity outlook for 2025

The population of for-hire carriers trended negative for two years. Now, analysts predict trucking's capacity to grow.

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The Trucker: Winter’s chill on logistics: Spot rates and volumes take a hit

Harsh winter travel conditions across the country constrained capacity, but not enough to heat up national average spot truckload rates, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.

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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.

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CCJ Digital: Will modern tech fall by the wayside like CB radios?

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.

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Fleet Owner: DAT: Spot market demand trends upward

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.

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The Trucker: Truckload spot volumes end year on high note

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.

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Supply Chain 247: Spot and contract truckload activity shows positive signs to end 2024, reports DAT

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.

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Logistics Management: Spot and contract truckload activity shows positive signs to end 2024, reports DAT

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.

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