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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

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million km) using battery-electric vehicles hauling customer freight. Schneider says it began running the trucks to haul customer freight in January. I-40 is one of the most traveled roadways in New Mexico – and the country – largely because of all the freight traffic coming from southern California.

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Reefer Freight Market Still Has a Few Hot Spots

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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.

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The “Race” to Win the Autonomous Truck Market

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TORC and Daimler Truck held an event for journalists last week at a TORC facility in Albuquerque. There are different types of trucks and different types of routes used in hauling freight. The event provided their perspective on these questions. TORC is an autonomous truck company and an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck.

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Reefer Demand Cools, Except in a Few Hot Spots

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Albuquerque continues to offer high load availability for reefers, coupled with a shortage of trucks. The demand turned New Mexico into a Hot State, as shown in this map for the week of October 4 - 10. Rates are derived from DAT RateView and are based on actual rate agreements between freight brokers and carriers.

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Looking for a Reefer Load? Try These 5 Markets

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Albuquerque, NM, has been lighting up the Hot Market Map for a few weeks now. That region of New Mexico produces potatoes, onions, and beef that are shipped all over the country, leading to high volume on the load board. So if you take a load to Albuquerque from L.A. Photo by Wikimedia Commons author Daniel Schwen.