Spot update shows high demand across the country — vans, flats in detail, disaster-relief opportunities, more
Freight lanes re-orient North-South as demand picture shifts for dry vans. Some platform opportunity exists, notes FEMA contractor Foxhole Logistics, and in general terms the typical late-September-beginning fall freight season may be getting an early …
Stiff freight challenges await trucking in coming decade, says trucking economist
Long-term freight challenges loom for the trucking industry as the economy and the supply chain become more efficient, more digitized and, thus, less reliant on transport needs, said Noȅl Perry, a chief economist for FTR and Truckstop.com.
In the freight rate/availability weeds this disastrous week
With Hurricane Irma on the way and Harvey’s effects being felt, the two natural disasters are “coming on top of a robust economy,” notes DAT’s Ken Harper, which could bode well for parts of the national freight market in the coming weeks.
Spot market update: Harvey ripple effects, lookback on dry van demand through 2017 so far
The demand map for the dry van segment continued to be on the darker, truck-favorable side in the last week, part of a somewhat uncommon trend in the spot market for this time of year. Run through the shifting sands of van demand so far this year in a …
Harvey effect: Texas rates climbing, diesel could jump 15-25 cents, high-dollar FEMA loads available
According to a seven-day rolling average maintained by load board DAT Solutions, van rates between Dallas zip codes and Seguin, Texas, zip codes (about a 250-mile run) have shot up 49 percent in recent days to a $3.46 per-mile average, with some loads …
August shaping up well on the spot market, all things considered — van, reefer updates
For vans, reefers, signs still point for strong rates for this time of year, which bodes well for the rest of the third quarter and through to the end of the year on the spot market.
TMW Systems’ Engage.Bid tool can be effective for small carriers engaging large-shipper RFPs
Devliering the ability to “price with conviction” is the goal of the tool, released by TMW last year — it enables carriers to pull shipper RFPs’ lane-by-lane requests for rate bids into a proprietary module and apply analysis tools. Then output bids q…
‘The Drive’ owner-operator-focused three-day conference; NPR radio and truckers
“The Drive” conference, the brainchild of Patriot Star small fleet owners and Trucking With Authority podcast hosts Kenny and Elizabeth Long, happens October 17-19 in North Kansas City.
A hot August: New development for the spot market in van, reefer
Find load-to-truck demand indicator averages for van and reefer below — for last week, when volumes declined for vans nationally but remained well higher than what is typical for August most years. “Temperatures in our part of the woods have come down from their unseasonably torrid highs,” noted DAT’s Ken Harper, “but it’s still very […]
What happened to the summer freight doldrums? August starts strong for vans, flats, reefers
DAT’s Ken Harper: “Here’s one for the record books: August started stronger for vans than any of the last 18 months. August! Really? What happened to the summer doldrums?”… Flatbed, reefer holding fairly strong as well, given the season.