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Severe weather causes freight rates to slip

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The highways are open now, but there are still flood warnings in six states: Nebraska, parts of neighboring South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota, plus eastern Arizona and western Mississippi. Philadelphia to Miami fell 22¢ to $1.96/mi. The prior week's rising lanes came back to earth.

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The Journey for Excellence

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It is finally spring in Philadelphia. Network with your peers on the insights and relax under the Arizona skies as you wrap up a couple of intense days. Yesterday, as I walked the streets on the way to ballet, I saw flowers for the first time in a year. I love spring. It is a time for awakening. Travel is both enriching and exhausting.

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Truckers Get a Raise in July

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Markets with rising rates include big cities like Chicago , Philadelphia , Atlanta , and Dallas. Also, reefer rates and volumes continue to decline in markets that share a border with Mexico, in Arizona and Texas. Darker states represent have higher load-to-truck ratios, meaning that those states have higher demand for trucks.

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Reefer Demand Cools, Except in a Few Hot Spots

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Pockets of high demand and favorable ratios can also be found in Little Rock, AR, and additional opportunities surfaced in Fargo, ND and Augusta ME, but conditions are soft in California, Arizona and much of the Pacific Northwest. This map of reefer rates in key regional markets can also be found on DAT Trendlines.

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Spring surge delayed again

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Load-to-truck ratios stayed low for reefer freight last week, despite an increase in volume out of California and Arizona. Grand Rapids to Philadelphia dropped 35¢ to $2.86/mi. That lone dark spot on the U.S. map is Green River, Wyoming, where a few dozen load posts overwhelmed an even smaller number of truck posts. Rising Rates.

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Van Rates Sag, Flatbeds Add 2¢, Before Q1 Closes

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Philadelphia to Buffalo , up 23¢ to $2.93/mile. Arizona was the only state with a load-to-truck ratio below 18, and the national average was in the high 80s for the third week in a row. Meanwhile, Buffalo had a bounce-back week, and it was in the mix on several key van lanes: Columbus to Buffalo , up 30¢ to $3.73/mile.

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Spring Came Early in These Freight Markets

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Philadelphia to Buffalo was up 18¢ to $2.13/mile. Phoenix and Las Vegas volumes have been low, which is indicative of statewide trends in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. All rates below include fuel surcharges and are based on real transactions between brokers and carriers. Buffalo has had a lackluster month. mile on average.