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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

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The state also is home to the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, which is a public-use airport located 14 miles north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The state invested $52 million in its waterway infrastructure from 2010 to 2015. ?The It is the world's first purely industrial airport. The state received a B. Media Type.

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

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5% more van loads were posted last week , and the load-to-truck ratio heated up in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, as shown in this Hot States Map for the week of August 2 - 8, 2015. Rates trended up in Houston, a major flatbed market, as well as secondary markets including Las Vegas, NV; Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland, OH; and Tampa, FL.

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How Natural Gas and Plastics Impact the Truckload Spot Market

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In the period of 2015 to 2019, an estimated 560 new plants will enter the market, with many eyeing the export marketplace. Hopper cars will carry the plastics to packaging facilities in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. There are 13,500 US facilities for plastics and polymer products.

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Flatbed Demand Skyrockets. Why?

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loads per truck in perspective, as you can see from the graph below the highest monthly load-to-truck ratio in 2015 was 22.8, It’s no surprise that Texas has the top three markets for spot market flatbed freight in the country: Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth. To put the 43.7 and in 2016 it hit 21.6.