DAT Solutions
MARCH 18, 2019
DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 256 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $60 billion in real transactions. National Average Freight Rates. loads per truck. Rising Rates.
DAT Solutions
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Big weather events like this usually affect the spot freight market in three stages. Before the storm , there’s urgency to move freight into the area or out of the way of the storm’s path. Some of those loads are already being tendered to freight brokers and 3PLs, who post them on DAT load boards.
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DAT Solutions
JULY 29, 2015
July is the in-between season for refrigerated ("reefer") freight. Freight volume continued to cool off for reefers last week, but some pockets of high demand remain in New Mexico, Arkansas and the Lower Midwest, as shown in this Hot States Map for the week of July 19-25, 2015, below. Those Lower Midwest markets are harvesting melons.
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APRIL 25, 2017
Memphis to Columbus hit $1.89/mile, Memphis to Dallas also dippedâ–¼9¢ to $2.09/mile. One more 9¢ drop: Denver to Albuquerque fell to $1.66/mile. Even though volumes were down in Florida , the wildfires and evacuations made it more expensive to move freight. Top 5 for van load posts on DAT load boards last week.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Canadian freight has been accelerating into the U.S., Memphis to Charlotte was up 9¢ to $2.53/mile. The biggest declines was out West, though: Denver to Albuquerque, NM , fell 35¢ to $2.18/mile. A big swath of the country saw falling van rates last week. The one exception was in Buffalo. FALLING LANES.
DAT Solutions
JANUARY 23, 2018
With the exception of Memphis , the biggest declines in spot market rates were in the Southeast and out West. Some of that demand could have been due to re-scheduling of contract freight after snow and ice shut down bridges and highway on-ramps. Denver to Albuquerque, NM, rates dropped 43¢ to $2.49/mile.
DAT Solutions
OCTOBER 16, 2015
You might want to look to Atlanta, Memphis, Philly, or Elizabeth, NJ, for a more profitable roundtrip. Albuquerque, NM, has been lighting up the Hot Market Map for a few weeks now. So if you take a load to Albuquerque from L.A. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Fall harvests continue to create high reefer demand in Grand Rapids, MI.
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